Protests against Trump's
Jerusalem decision turn deadly
NEWS / JERUSALEM
PROTESTS OVER US JERUSALEM
DECISION
Friday marks the third day of protests
One person killed in Gaza: Health ministry
More than 200 treated for injuries, 50
taken to hospital
Palestinian schools declared strike over
decision
Hamas leader: US decision is a 'war
declaration against Palestinians'
US' Rex Tillerson: Embassy move 'won't
happen for years'
Battle for Jerusalem Jerusalem
East Jerusalem Palestine Israel
At least one Palestinian has been killed
and hundreds injured as "Day of Rage"
protests continue across the occupied
West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza
Strip over the US decision to recognise
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
A 30-year-old Palestinian man was
killed by Israeli fire during protests in
Gaza on Friday, Palestinian news agency
WAFA reported, citing the Palestinian
health ministry.
According to WAFA, the health ministry
retracted an earlier statement that a
second man was killed.
The Red Crescent also said on Friday
that so far, they had attended to at least
217 injuries in the occupied West Bank
and East Jerusalem , while in the Gaza
Strip more than 20 people were treated
for tear gas inhalation and rubber
bullet wounds.
WAFA reported that about 50 those
injuries had to be treated at a hospital.
In and around the Old City
of Jerusalem , protests began after noon
prayers on Friday.
Speaking in front of Damascus Gate in
occupied East Jerusalem,
Harry Fawcett said the protests have
been mostly peaceful.
"Occupied East Jerusalem has been
relatively peaceful in the past two days
since this announcement from Trump,"
he said.
"Emotions are very high here, and it
doesn't take much to kick things off,"
he added.
"The protests have largely been noisy
and loud and occasionally Palestinian
flags and banners [would be] unfurled
at which Israeli security forces would
move in and separate out some of those
who they wanted to target."
Israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber
bullets at demonstrators in the
occupied West Bank cities of Hebron
and Bethlehem, with at least one case
of live ammunition being reported,
Palestinian medical services said.
Friday marked the third day of protests
across the occupied territories.
Palestinian universities, schools, and
educational institutions had also
declared a strike after a directive from
the Palestinian Ministry of Education.
'Dangerous escalation'
Trump, ignoring warnings from the
international community, announced on
Wednesday that the US was formally
recognising Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel and would begin the process of
moving its embassy to the city, breaking
with decades of US policy.
The decision has been condemned by
world leaders who have described it as
a "dangerous escalation" and the final
nail in the coffin of peace negotiations
between Israelis and Palestinians.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the
capital of their future state, while Israel
says the city, which is under Israeli
occupation, cannot be divided.
Trump's "announcement has the
potential to send us backwards to even
darker times than the ones we are
already living in", said Federica
Mogherini, high representative of the
European Union for foreign affairs.
Speaking on Friday, US Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson said that the
relocation of the US embassy would
probably not take place for at least two
years.
"This is not something that is going to
happen this year or probably not next
year, but the president does want us to
move in a very concrete, very steadfast
way," Tillerson said after talks in Paris
with his French counterpart Jean-Yves
Le Drian.
In a speech in Gaza City on Thursday,
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya has
said the US decision is a "war
declaration against Palestinians", and
called for a new Intifada, or uprising.
Haniya said US President Donald
Trump's recognition "killed" the Israeli-
Palestinian peace process.
"This decision has killed the peace
process, has killed the Oslo [accord],
has killed the settlement process," he
said.
"The US decision is an aggression, a
declaration of war on us, on the best
Muslim and Christian shrines in the
heart of Palestine, Jerusalem. We
should work on launching an Intifada in
the face of the Zionist enemy," Haniya
said.
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