SWOOP DURING ANTI-ISRAEL MARCH
the protests. The images were captured yesterday during clashes at a protest close to the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the city of Ramallah.
It was the latest day of trouble that began last week when Trump inflamed the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and upended decades of US foreign policy by recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel for the first time.
Muslim nations have “rejected and condemned” the US president and have called on the world to recognise east Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.
The Istanbul Declaration on Freedom for al-Quds, the Arabic name of Jerusalem, follows yesterday’s extraordinary summit of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
The final communique is a softened version of an earlier draft.
With it, the organisation declared the US announcement as “null and void”, while inviting Trump to reconsider and rescind the “unlawful decision that might trigger chaos in the region”.
The declaration called on countries who have not yet recognised Palestine to do so and invited “the whole world to recognise East Al Quds as the capital”.
Four Palestinians have already been killed in clashes or by Israeli air strikes following rocket fire from Gaza.
One Israeli was seriously injured in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem.
The unlawful decision might trigger chaos in the region MUSLIM NATIONS