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French President Emmanuel Macron said during a joint press conference with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Paris on Friday that recognising a Palestinian state was "not a taboo for France" in his first such comments since the start of the war in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu earlier rejected the idea of a Palestinian state following media reports that the US and a small group of Arab nations were working on a comprehensive peace plan including a timeline for the establishment of such a state. Read our liveblog for all the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war.