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French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday night that France officially recognizes a Palestinian state, becoming the 152nd country to do so. The declaration came at the opening of the Franco-Saudi conference on Palestinian statehood, held at UN headquarters in New York, on the eve of the General Assembly leaders’ summit

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet tomorrow with senior Arab and Muslim leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, in an effort to revive negotiations to end the war in Gaza and secure the release of Israeli hostages. The meeting comes amid a new proposal from Hamas, which has drafted a letter to Trump offering a 60-day ceasefire in exchange for the release of half of the hostages held in Gaza

The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit announced Tuesday morning that Major Shahar Netanel Bozaglo, 27, from Migdal HaEmek, was killed Monday in Gaza. Bozaglo, a company commander in the 77th Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade (“Saar of Golan”), died after an RPG rocket hit his tank in the southern sector of Gaza City