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<h1 class="title">Palestinians call for mass protests against US
Embassy opening in Jerusalem</h1>
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<div class="stamp">May 10, 2018 - <font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780097">http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780097</a></font><br>
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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.<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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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.” <br>
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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.” <br>
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“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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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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