{"id":13314,"date":"2018-03-21T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2018-03-21T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:21:44","slug":"palestinians-mark-100th-day-since-trump-nakba-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/palestinians-mark-100th-day-since-trump-nakba-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians mark 100th day since Trump ‘Nakba’ move"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thousands of Palestinian refugees hold a protest rally in southern Lebanon to mark the hundredth day since the US president recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as the “capital” of Israel.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The rally was held Sunday in the city of Sidon\u00a0which hosts Ain al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Lebanese paper The Daily Star <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump recognized Israel\u2019s claim to the city last December, and set in motion a decades-long frozen plan to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied holy city.<\/p>\n

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Protesters rally in the Lebanese city of Sidon on December 7, 2017 against US President Donald Trump’s decision to declare Jerusalem al-Quds as the “capital” of Israel. (Photo by AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The announcement triggered an international storm and later that month, more than 120 countries voted at the United Nations General Assembly in favor of a resolution calling for the United States to drop the recognition.<\/p>\n

Trump’s announcement came as Palestinians prepared to observe the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, or the “day of catastrophe” on which Israel was created.<\/p>\n

“They deliberately chose a tragic day in Palestinian history, the Nakba, as an act of gratuitous cruelty adding insult to injury,” senior Palestinian official\u00a0Hanan Ashrawi tweeted then.<\/p>\n

Addressing the Sunday rally, Hamas\u00a0political leader in Lebanon Ahmad Abd al-Hadi said Trump’s decision had become a \u201cweak point\u201d of the US foreign policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that Lebanon\u2019s position is to support the right of return\u201d for Palestinian refugees, he said.<\/p>\n

He also slammed recent remarks by Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil who proposed some Palestinian refugees lose their refugee status.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, the Palestinians who stay outside the Lebanese territory for long or obtain foreign citizenship\u00a0should be stripped of the status\u00a0in order to “ease the financial burden” on UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.<\/p>\n

On January 16, the US State Department announced that Washington would hold back $65 million\u00a0it had earmarked for UNRWA — more than half its planned contribution this year — and demanded that the agency make unspecified reforms.<\/p>\n

In an earlier tweet, Trump said Washington had given the Palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but got \u201cno appreciation or respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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