A 58% majority of Americans believe that every country in the United Nations should recognize Palestine as a nation, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, as Israel and Hamas considered a possible truce in the nearly two-year-long war.

Germany's foreign minister has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages held by Hamas after a meeting in Indonesia.

France, Britain and Canada plan to recognize Palestinian statehood during the Gaza war, but Israeli experts warn the move could reward terrorism and complicate peace efforts.

Johann Wadephul and Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono say the humanitarian catastrophe resulting from the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is unbearable and a two-state solution is the sole means of ending the conflict. “The goal for all of us is clear: a two-state solution, which must be negotiated,” Wadephul says.

A row between Israel and France over Paris's plan to recognize a Palestinian state next month escalated to crisis level on Tuesday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused President Emmanuel Macron of fomenting "antisemitism".

The French presidential office slammed the Israeli prime minister's allegations as 'abject' and warned of 'conflation.'

Standing at the site of the planned settlement in Maale Adumim on Thursday, Smotrich, a settler himself, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump had agreed to the revival of the E1 development, though there was no immediate confirmation from either.

France and the United Kingdom also made statements this month about recognizing a Palestinian state in September at the U.N. General Assembly meeting.

After three children from Gaza arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive pro bono treatment at local hospitals this month, some right-wing activists used their arrival as supposed