French President Emmanuel Macron has said that France will help Palestine draw up a constitution.
Macron held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris this week, after France formally recognised a Palestinian state in September.
They were not the only Western nation to do so that month, with many citing frustration over Israel's ongoing devastation and a push for a two-state solution.
Now, France has declared its intent to help the Palestinian Authority draft a constitution for a future state, put together by a joint committee.
"This committee will be responsible for working on all legal aspects: constitutional, institutional and organisational," Macron told reporters.
"It will contribute to the work of developing a new constitution, a draft of which President Abbas has presented to me, and will aim to finalise all the conditions for such a State of Palestine."
France will also contribute 100 million euros in humanitarian aid to Gaza for 2025.
“We are committed to a culture of dialogue and peace, and we want a democratic, unarmed state committed to the rule of law, transparency, justice, pluralism and the rotation of power,” Abbas said of the deal.
