President Emmanuel Macron's announcement that France would become the first Western member of the United Nations Security Council to recognise a Palestinian state in September has caused diplomatic ructions from the Middle East through Europe to Washington.

The leaders of Britain, France, and Germany plan to hold an emergency call Friday about the hunger crisis in Gaza

French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state builds on international outrage over Israel’s curbs on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, although it’s unlikely to have an immediate impact on the war against Hamas in the territory.

Almost a third of people in Gaza are “not eating for days”, the United Nations food aid agency told AFP on Friday, saying the crisis has reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation”. The Rome-based World Food Programme had previously warned of a “critical risk of famine” in war-raged Gaza,

Hamas has pushed back against remarks by U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff, who criticized the group's stance in ongoing ceasefire talks and said negotiators were pulling out from Qatar on Thursday.