Israel-Gaza live updates: France, UK, Canada recognize Palestinian statehood

The Israel Defense Forces said in a post to X on Sunday that it intercepted one of two rockets fired toward Israel from the northern Gaza Strip.

The air force intercepted one target and the other "fell in an open area," the IDF said, adding that there were no casualties.

the IDF is continuing a major operation targeting Gaza City -- the strip's largest urban area -- that it says intends to destroy Hamas units stationed there.

The Israeli government is pressing the attack despite international concerns over the dire humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory.

France will recognize the state of Palestine on Monday after the United Kingdom does the same Sunday evening, a senior French official told ABC News.

French President Emmanuel Macron will address the United Nations on Monday, where he will discuss on the Middle East and a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, during which he will formally recognize Palestine as a state, according to the official.

France will then send “a verbal note through the usual diplomatic channels to confirm this recognition,” the official said.

Along with France, nine other countries have decided to proceed with the recognition of Palestine: Andorra, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, Portugal, Malta, the United Kingdom and San Marino. These countries join more than 140 countries which have already recognized the state of Palestine.

The UK is expected to announce its recognition on the eve of the conference on Sunday evening, a French source said. However, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer will not attend Monday’s conference.

-ABC News' Tom Soufi Burridge

Israeli forces suspended the transiting of "all convoys" traveling from Jordan into Israel at the Allenby Crossing a day after two people were killed there, Israel Defense Forces Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said in a statement on Friday.

The crossing will remain closed until "the completion of the inquiry" into what happened, Zamir said.

Humanitarian aid convoys heading to Gaza use this corridor. There are two other crossing points between Israel and Jordan, but humanitarian aid trucks have been passing from Jordan to Gaza through Israel from this crossing point because it is closest to the border with Gaza.

-ABC News' Dorit Long

The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelming on Friday to allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address next week's gathering of world leaders virtually after the Trump administration declined to grant him a visa.

The motion passed by a vote of 145-5 with six abstentions. The U.S., Israel, Paraguay, Palau and Nauru voted against it.

"The Trump administration has been clear: we must hold the [Palestine Liberation Organization] and the Palestinian Authority accountable for not complying with their commitments under the Oslo accords," the U.S. envoy said ahead of the vote.

Typically, leaders must be present in New York during UNGA to speak before the assembly. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the General Assembly met entirely virtually.

During the first year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.N. allowed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to address the assembly through a pre-recorded video message -- a move that garnered pushback from Moscow at the time.

-ABC News' Shannon K. Kingston