\u201cFor the second Friday in a row, hundreds of Palestinians protested [U.S. President Donald] Trump\u2019s decision,\u201d Firas al-dibs, a spokesman for Jerusalem\u2019s Islamic Waqf authority, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemonstrators marched from the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the Bab al-Amoud [also known as the Damascus Gate], shouting slogans against the U.S. move and reiterating Jerusalem\u2019s Arab and Muslim identity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
At least four Palestinians have been martyred and hundreds more injured in clashes with Israeli forces — and at least one alleged airstrike — since Trump announced the decision last Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The dramatic shift in U.S. policy has drawn a storm of condemnation and protest across the Arab and Muslim world.<\/p>\n
An extraordinary Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit in Istanbul and final declaration of East Jerusalem as Palestine\u2019s capital came in response to Trump\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and relocate Washington\u2019s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
Jerusalem remains at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict, with Palestinians hoping that East Jerusalem — occupied by Israel since 1967 — might eventually serve as the capital of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n
In April, Russia recognized West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, voicing hope that the city’s eastern half might eventually serve as the capital of an independent state of Palestine.<\/p>\n
Notably, in his announcement last week, Trump stressed that the \u201cspecific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem\u201d should be decided in final-status talks between the two sides.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hundreds protest Trump decision in Jerusalem’s Aqsa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,101,14],"tags":[13436,599],"class_list":["post-59720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-jerusalem","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}