00:00French President Emmanuel Macron has said France will form a joint panel with the Palestinian Authority to draw up a new constitution for Palestine.
00:12His announcement came after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.
00:17France has recently joined a raft of countries in recognizing Palestinian states,
00:48The meeting between Macron and Abbas comes amid a fragile U.S.-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
00:57Abbas has headed the Palestinian Authority for 20 years, a body which has limited control over parts of the occupied West Bank.
01:05The authority is being considered to take over the governance of Gaza as part of the ceasefire deal.
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