Palestine’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, told the news agency Agence France-Presse AFP that:
France’s recognition would be “a step in the right direction in line with safeguarding the rights of the Palestinian people and the two-state solution”.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said: any “unilateral recognition” of a Palestinian state would be a “boost for Hamas”. True

He wrote on X: “A ‘unilateral recognition’ of a fictional Palestinian state, by any country, in the reality that we all know,
1. will be a prize for terror
2. and a boost for Hamas,”
3. “These kind of actions will not bring peace, security and stability in our region closer —
4. but the opposite: they only push them further away,”

What "Palestinian state"?
Palestine has been recognised as a sovereign state by 146 out of 193 UN members so far, with Armenia, Slovenia, Ireland, Norway, Spain, the Bahamas, Trinidad, and Tobago, Jamaica, and Barbados joining their ranks last year.

However, despite growing international support for Palestinian statehood, several major Western countries like the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany have withheld recognition.

Macron said that he foresaw a “collective dynamic”, enabling some countries in the Middle East to recognise the Israeli state in turn.
Countries that do not recognise Israel include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.