Tensions between France and Israel continue to boil as President Emmanuel Macron threatens to intensify efforts to coerce the Middle East state into relenting its siege on the Gaza Strip. Macron said Thursday that the French government is currently exploring the possibility of taking further steps to pressure Israel to abandon its war with Hamas,

France said it has received a letter from the Palestinian Authority that contains “concrete and unprecedented commitments” to reform as Paris prepares to co-chair a conference on Palestinian statehood in New York.

Israel is to expel by the end of the week four French nationals held after security forces intercepted their Gaza-bound aid boat, France's foreign minister said Wednesday, as an Israeli NGO said one of the French campaigners was briefly put in solitary confinement.

France said on Tuesday it had obtained new commitments from the Palestinian Authority to reform, ahead of a conference next week at which Paris could become the most prominent Western power to back recognition of an independent Palestinian state.

Macron's stance has shifted amid Israel's intensified Gaza offensive and escalating violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, and there is a growing sense of urgency in Paris to act now before the idea of a two-state solution vanishes forever.

Israeli fiscal data shows French delivery of millions of weapons of war items worth more than $10m since October 2023

In a post on X, the Israeli foreign ministry shares an image of the climate activist on a plane and says she is flying to Sweden via France.

The coordinated move against Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich highlights the hardening of several countries’ stance toward Israel amid the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The Israeli navy has attacked docks in Yemen’s rebel-held port city of Hodeida, likely damaging facilities that are key to aid shipments to the hungry, war-wracked nation.