Fatah called on Palestinians to keep up their demonstrations over Washington’s policy shift on Jerusalem as the movement confirmed its leader will refuse to meet US Vice-President Mike Pence in protest at the controversial decision.
After protests gripped the West Bank and Gaza for a third straight day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due in Paris overnight where demonstrators had rallied on the eve of his arrival.
Arab League ministers, in an emergency meeting in Cairo yesterday, urged Washington to rescind its Jerusalem decision.
Donald Trump’s decision last week to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital upended decades of US diplomacy, causing a global diplomatic backlash.
Four Palestinians have now been killed and dozens wounded since the US President announced the policy, which drew criticism from every other UN Security Council member at an emergency meeting over the weekend.
Fatah urged Palestinians to “keep up confrontation and broaden it to all points where the Israeli army is present” in the West Bank.
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