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Israel will coordinate airdrops of aid into Gaza from foreign countries in the coming days, an Israeli security official confirmed to ABC News.

Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon told Newsweek that France's move constituted a "reward for terrorism."

Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists waved flags and unfurled banners on Wednesday as the Tour de France peloton rode through Dieulefit, a southeastern French town honoured as a "Town of the Just" for sheltering Jewish people during World War Two.

WASHINGTON — The United States criticizes the release from a French prison of anti-Israel Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who spent more than 40 years behind bars for the killings of two diplomats, one of them American.

French President Emmanuel Macron has officially announced that France plans to recognize the state of Palestine. He made the statement public on Thursday via a letter shared on social media platform X.

Georges Abdallah, a 74-year-old Lebanese teacher who became a left-wing symbol for the Palestinian cause, is to be freed by France on Friday after 41 years in jail. Described by his lawyer as "the man who has spent the longest time in prison for events linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,

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