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Talks with Hamas broke down the day Macron made the unilateral decision to recognize a Palestinian state.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to recognize Palestinian statehood immediately ended any chance of successful ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.
" The talks with Hamas broke down the day Macron made the unilateral decision that he would recognize the Palestinian state ," Rubio said in an interview this week with Eternal Word Television Network, a Catholic television broadcaster.
The United Kingdom and Canada followed France's lead soon after, drawing criticism from the United States and Israel.
The decisions to recognise a Palestinian state come amid growing international condemnation of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer describing the "suffering and hunger" in Gaza as "unspeakable and intolerable".
Rubio said in Thursday's interview that these decisions showed Hamas that the militant group was being rewarded for its actions.
"If I were Hamas, I would basically conclude: 'Let's not do a ceasefire, we can get rewarded, we can claim it as a victory,' " Rubio said.
The US withdrew from ceasefire talks on the same day that France said it would recognise Palestinian statehood, with Washington's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, saying Hamas was not acting in good faith./ Politico
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