The Palestinian president’s office warned Friday of the potential destructive effects of any move denying the right to Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital of the future Palestinian state.
The statement comes as US President Donald Trump is due to decide by Monday on whether to move his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city.
Without referring to Trump or the US by name, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said any just solution in the Middle East required recognition of “east Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state.”
“East Jerusalem, with its holy places, is the beginning and the end of any solution and any project that saves the region from destruction,” he said in a statement on the official Wafa news agency.
Source: AFP
