Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups will meet in Paris on Friday to urge the international community not to abandon a two-state solution, as France seeks to keep the issue on the agenda amid the ongoing war in the Middle East.
Foreign ministers and senior officials from dozens of countries are expected to attend the meeting, which comes one year after the United Nations-backed New York Declaration set out a roadmap towards Palestinian statehood and encouraged a number of countries, including France, the United Kingdom and Canada, to recognise a Palestinian state – which they went on to do in September last year.
