Foreign Minister Gideon Saar criticized France's decision to recognize a Palestinian state. "The pretension of the French president to create with a breath the permanent arrangement in our country is absurd and not serious," he stated. According to him, "A Palestinian state would be a Hamas state exactly as the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip 20 years ago led to Hamas taking control of it. President Macron cannot provide security to Israel. Let's hope he succeeds in doing so on the streets of Paris."

