[News] Palestinians call for mass protests against US Embassy opening in Jerusalem

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  Palestinians call for mass protests against US Embassy opening in
  Jerusalem

May 10, 2018 - http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780097
BETHLEHEM -- (Ma'an) Palestinian activists and officials across the 
occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem have called for coordinated 
demonstrations against the scheduled relocation of the U.S. embassy in 
Jerusalem.

The official ceremony will be held on Monday, May 14 in the Jerusalem 
district of Arnona, and coincides with the 70th anniversary of the 
Palestinian people’s Nakba, or "catastrophe," which marks the creation 
of Israel in which 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their land.

The Higher Follow-Up Committee for the Arab Community, which represents 
Palestinian citizens of Israel, said it has coordinated with national 
and religious groups in occupied East Jerusalem to hold a demonstration 
on the day of the opening, under the motto: “Jerusalem is an Arab 
Islamic and Christian city”, and “No to moving the US embassy to 
Jerusalem.”

Head of the committee, Mohammad Barake said: “We have decided to hold 
the demonstration at the same location and time to raise our voice 
against US policy that supports Israeli occupation and settlements in a 
desperate American-Israeli effort to kill all chances for the creation 
of an independent and soverign Palestinian state on the 1967 borders 
with Jerusalem as its capital.”

“We will stress that this American aggression and drawing other poor 
nations to follow the US suit, as well as reports about the so-called 
‘deal of the century’, which is being drawn by Zionist settlers in the 
White House, will not work” he concluded.

There have also been calls for demonstrations in Ramallah, Bethlehem, 
Hebron, and other cities across the West Bank to mark the day of the 
Nakba, as well as the relocation of the US embassy.

The ‘Great March of Return’ demonstrations in Gaza are expected to peak 
on May 14-15. According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of 
Health, the Israeli army has killed 47 Palestinians – five of which are 
children -- as well as injuring 8536, 793 children, 283 women; 166 of 
this figure are people that remain critically wounded.
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