French political leaders were to meet with President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for closed-door talks to flesh out divisions raised by the violence between Israel and militants in Gaza. The far-left France Unbowed party has refused to denounce the Hamas group as terrorists.
The talks between party chiefs and the presidents of the two houses of parliament at the Elysée come ahead of a televised speech Thursday night in which Macron is to address the "terrorist acts committed in Israel".
