French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan congratulated France for its decision to recognize the State of Palestine in a phone call with French leader

Those calls have grown in the past few days, as images of starving children have been beamed around the world and French President Emmanuel Macron has announced France will formally recognise Palestine as a state.