What we want is one unified state without weapons, a state with one law and one legitimate security forces,” Mahmoud Abbas said.

Several world leaders are expected to formally recognize a Palestinian state on Monday at a summit convened by France and Saudi Arabia ahead of the opening of the 80th United National General Assembly in New York.

France's president on Friday welcomed the arrest this week in the occupied West Bank of a key Palestinian suspect in a 1982 terror attack in Paris, calling it the result of “excellent cooperation” with the Palestinian Authority.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas had hoped to attend the meeting but the United States revoked his visa last month

France and Saudi Arabia hope to use this year’s United Nations General Assembly and the increasingly horrific war in the Gaza Strip to inject new urgency into the quest for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

That a host of Western nations are adding their names to the near-universal list of Global South countries that already recognize a Palestinian state is a major diplomatic win for

A 22-year-old Palestinian student planned to be in the US this month, preparing her dorm room ahead of starting her first semester at an American university. Instead, she is still in Gaza, desperately trying to gather food,

Why recognising a Palestinian state – and doing nothing else – might be pointless - ANALYSIS: The fear is that without international action deterring Israel from annexing the occupied West Bank or destroying Gaza,