US President Biden and Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu held their first phone call in nearly a month on Friday following the Israeli PM’s rejection of a Washington-backed call for Palestinian sovereignty, with Biden and Netanyahu appearing to be at odds on the issue of a two-state solution to follow the war in Gaza. FRANCE 24 spoke to David Khalfa, co-director of the North Africa and Middle East Observatory at the Jean Jaurès Foundation, to shed more light on the situation.
![‘Release my son’: Thai families plea for help for loved ones kidnapped in Israel](https://s.france24.com/media/display/07f645ec-6903-11ee-b43e-005056a90321/w:1280/p:16x9/m:{"brand":"FRANCE24","lang":"EN","program":"","cartouche":"ISRAEL%20-%20HAMAS%20WAR","hash":"ec7953fa999a94f81fe6e172c0f25eab6de8528fa5f77e865c2155962cffb4e3","title":"Families%20of%20Thai%20victims%20in%20anguish","id":"25aba80c-45fb-11ec-90e2-005056bf30b7"}/EN_20231012_141249_141457_CS.jpg "‘Release my son’: Thai families plea for help for loved ones kidnapped in Israel")