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Fatah calls for protests against US VP Jerusalem visit
RAMALLAH: The Fatah faction of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Saturday called for demonstrations next week when US Vice President Mike Pence visits Jerusalem, after Washington´s policy shift on the holy city.
Breaking with decades with US policy, President Donald Trump announced on December 6 his decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel´s capital and that he would move the US embassy to the city. The move has stirred global condemnation and sparked angry protests across Arab and Muslim countries, as well as deadly clashes in the occupied territories between Palestinians and Israeli forces. It also prompted Abbas to cancel a meeting with Pence, who arrives Wednesday in Jerusalem, and warn that Washington no longer had a role to play in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Fatah called for a day of ?protests? on Wednesday near Jerusalem and the Old City ?against the visit of the American vice-president and Trump´s decision? to recognise Jerusalem as Israel´s capital, a statement said. The status of Jerusalem is one of the most controversial issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel seized control of the eastern part of the city in the 1967 Middle East war and sees the whole of Jerusalem as its undivided capital. The Palestinians view the east as the capital of their future state.The call to protest came as thousands of Palestinians took part in funerals for two of four men killed Friday in clashes with Israeli forces during protests in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Fatah calls for protests against US VP Jerusalem visit || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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