Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron had given him assurances that Israeli companies would be able to take part in the Paris Air Show.

France will keep fighting to obtain the release of the two French-Israeli nationals held by Hamas, foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot told BFM TV on Monday."We will continue to fight until the last hour for their release,

Hamas-led militants freed eight hostages on Thursday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but the chaotic handover of some of the captives, who masked militants shuttled through a rowdy crowd of thousands, drew an angry protest from Israel. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the fragile ceasefire and an ever-uncertain road to peace, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza welcomes Gershon Baskin, former Israeli Negotiator, Columnist, Speaker, Socio-political Activist, Middle East Director of the International Communities Organisation and Founder and Director of IPCRI, the Israeli-Palestinian Public Policy Institute.

Israel on Thursday formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory despite heavy diplomatic backlash, a move that humanitarian officials warn could have a disastrous impact on aid delivery and jeopardize regional stability in the long term.

Macron’s trip to Lebanon, his first in more than four years, follows a 60-day ceasefire deal that went into effect Nov. 27 between Israel and Hezbollah that aims to end their war. France helped broker the deal and a French officer is a member of the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Israel on Friday to accelerate its troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon, as a deadline nears for the pullout under the terms of a ceasefire that ended the war with Hezbollah last year.

In October, France announced a decision to bar Israeli companies from exhibiting at the Euronaval defense show. In response, then-Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced “legal and diplomatic ...

BEIRUT (AP) — France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as the nation attempts to recover from the 14-month ...

France on Wednesday expressed concerns over Israel’s military operation this week in the West Bank city of Jenin, which resulted in the death of at least nine Palestinians, and called on Israel ...

Air France to resume operations to Tel Aviv starting January 25. Transavia, the low-cost airline within the Air France-KLM Group, will restart flights to and from Israel beginning January 27.

Israeli defence companies were last year banned from participating in a defence industry exhibition held in Paris as Macron called for Israel to cease some military operations in Gaza. That ban ...

adding France had "no news on their health status nor on the terms of their detention". Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, on the first ...