Chronicle-Tribune · 8 December 2017
CP-2017-006
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?’”
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.
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"Palestinians protest Trump move, more unrest feared," Chronicle-Tribune, 8 December 2017, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2017-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2017-006
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