Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets of Gaza to protest against peace plan

 

(Reuters)

GAZA CITY: Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets of Gaza to protest in opposition to US President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled peace plan for the Middle East.

Youths set fireplace to tires and burned photographs of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the duration of demonstrations on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Social media changed into also awash with angry backlashes to the deal which many posters claimed could simplest exert similarly strain at the Palestinian people.

As part of the long-awaited plan, Trump has proposed a Palestinian country double the size of current Palestinian territories, with East Jerusalem as its capital and a US Embassy there.

But Hamas official Raafat Morra stated: “National cohesion and Palestinian famous steadfastness at home and abroad, adhering to the resistance project via all means, and cooperating with the dwelling forces inside the nation, are the exceptional ways to confront the brand new American-Israeli plan.”

Reiterating Hamas’ comprehensive rejection of the plan, he brought that it could lead to the “liquidation of the Palestinian cause, the affirmation of the Israeli occupation, and the cancelation of all Palestinian rights.”

Secretary-popular of the Islamic Jihad, Ziyad Al-Nakhalah, stated on Wednesday that the USA president’s “deal of the century” threw up amazing challenges.

“This plan poses a major project that calls for us to trade our technique to coping with everything. This challenge should make us go away the norm and push us to create new records with our sacrifices and to have the willingness and motivation to confront and address this bullying without hesitation,” he added.

Shops closed and college students stayed away from faculties on Wednesday in Gaza after Palestinian factions known as for a widespread strike.

Sama Ayoub, 45, said: “My kids did no longer go to highschool today. We reject the deal of the century, which I believe to be the slap of the century. As (Palestinian) President Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) said, there will be no peace with out obtaining the minimum of our rights.

“What do they need us to take delivery of — that we give up Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and all our rights, that our lands be confiscated with out being refused, that we be given it for money?” she brought.

But Raed Dabban, 35, stated: “There are exciting aspects of the deal. Our modern state of affairs in Palestine is bad, especially within the Gaza Strip.

“Palestinian leaders should look for answers to reality within the Gaza Strip especially and reinforce the resilience of the Palestinians inside the West Bank and Jerusalem, so that everyone can reject with all energy the concessions that compromise our rights.

“We are on the threshold of a critical level in our political existence and our future, and our residing situations are bad. People cannot rise up without the substances for resilience. This is the position of leaders,” he brought.

Following a phone conversation with Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ political bureau chief, Abbas announced on Tuesday that a delegation from Ramallah could be despatched to Gaza for reconciliation talks. Palestinian diplomat Saeb Erekat also said that a delegation from the Fatah birthday party would go to Gaza next week to fulfill with Hamas.

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