Christmas lights were tonight switched off in Bethlehem, Jesus’ traditional birthplace, in protest at US President Donald Trump’s Al-Quds (Jerusalem) speech. Palestinians turned off festive illuminations on a Christmas tree outside Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe Jesus was born. Another tree was darkened in Ramallah, next to ...
US President Donald Trump told the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a phone call Tuesday that he intended to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Al-Quds (Jerusalem), Abbas’s office said. Trump “informed the president (Abbas) on his intention to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Al-Quds ...