President Emmanuel Macron officially announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state during a meeting co-chaired with Saudi Arabia at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday.

On the first day of the Jewish Rosh Hashanah New Year celebrations, President Macron broke with decades of French policy and with allies Israel and the United States to formally back Palestine statehood at the U.N. on Monday, despite accusations from Jerusalem and Washington of rewarding the Islamist Hamas terrorists for the October 7th terror attacks which left over 1,200 dead and hundreds more taken hostage.

Addressing the Assembly, the French President said per Le Figaro : “True to my country’s historical commitment to the Middle East… France now recognizes the State of Palestine.”

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