Palestinians protest Trump move, more unrest feared

Josef Federman, The Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM — Thousands of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli forces in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, demonstrators in the Gaza Strip burned U.S. flags and pictures of President Donald Trump… in a show of rage Thursday over the American decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital… The Palestinians declared three ‘days of rage,’ shuttering schools and businesses, and staging angry demonstrations at Damascus Gate, one of the entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City, and cities across the West Bank and Gaza. ‘We are here. We believe in our rights and one day it will become Jerusalem, the capital for the Palestinian people,’ declared Rania Hatem, a protester outside the Old City… ‘People are tired, exhausted. Personally I feel that we are doomed anyway and nothing we do makes a difference,’ said Ghinwa Barakat, a 43-year-old shopper in Beirut. ‘Who’s going to support the Palestinians? Syria is destroyed, Iraq is destroyed. The Gulf countries are fighting each other and competing over who will normalize relations with Israel first. So, who?’”

Photograph caption

Palestinians burn posters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump, during a protest against the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in Gaza City on Thursday. Khalil Hamra / AP.

Context added by this archive

Two named ordinary people, one in Jerusalem and one shopping in Beirut, saying opposite things about whether any of it matters.

Cite this item

"Palestinians protest Trump move, more unrest feared," Chronicle-Tribune, 8 December 2017. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2017-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2017-006

Elsewhere in the archive

Palestinians demonstrate at the Damascus GateThe Buffalo News · 8 December 2017 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
Palestinians fear Trump will put them on sidelinesDaily American Republic · 8 February 2017 · the same year
50 years after war, settlements blur future bordersNew Jersey Herald · 14 April 2017 · the same year
Plight of Palestinian refugees now spans 5 generationsHickory Daily Record · 24 April 2017 · the same year

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