French President Emmanuel Macron waits to welcome the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region for a working lunch at the Elysee Palace in Paris. AFP
France is among European nations to have backed a plan for Gaza to return to the control of the Ramallah-based authority.
"It is essential to set a framework for the day after: disarm and sideline Hamas, define credible governance and reform the Palestinian Authority," Macron said on X after a phone call with his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas.
"This should allow progress towards a two-state political solution, with a view to the peace conference in June, in the service of peace and security for all."
Macron said last week that France could take the unprecedented step of recognising a Palestinian state during a United Nations conference in New York in June, sparking condemnation from Israel.
Hamas has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it seized control from the Palestinian Authority after being blocked from exercising real power despite winning a parliamentary election the previous year.
Both France and the United States, under Joe Biden, have pressed for the Palestinian Authority, which has limited autonomy in parts of the West Bank, to root out corruption and bring in new faces in the hope it could take charge of Gaza.
The Ramallah-based administration, led by 89-year-old Abbas, has been hamstrung by Israel's decades-old occupation of the West Bank.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online
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