As Reported by Qods News Agency (Qodsna) Jerusalem al-Quds “is not for sale,” Abbas said in a speech marking the 54th anniversary of the Fatah party’s founding in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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\r\n“We will not allow anyone to advance a plot against Jerusalem (al-Quds),” he noted, stressing that the city “will remain the eternal capital of the Palestinian state, as the late President Yasser Arafat said that a Palestinian child will raise the flag of Palestine on the walls, minarets and churches of Jerusalem (al-Quds).”<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n
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Israel lays claim to the whole Jerusalem al-Quds, but the international community views the city’s eastern sector as occupied territory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Israel occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds during the Six-Day War in 1967 and later annexed the city in a move not recognized by the international community.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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US President Donald Trump sparked anger among Palestinians and the entire international community in December 2017, when he recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as the Israeli “capital.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Washington also moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied city months later in defiance of global warnings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Abbas said that the embassy relocation would fail to undermine the right of Palestinians to Jerusalem al-Quds and would not cause them to give up their principles.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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\r\nHe also emphasized that the Palestinian people would press on with their struggle until they establish their independent state, saying, “The revolution goes on and will continue.”<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n
Abbas further said that the Palestinian nation would not accept Trump’s so-called “deal of the century” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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In the wake of Trump’s policy shift on Jerusalem al-Quds, the Palestinian president described the US president’s proposed plan, which is yet to be unveiled, as the “slap of the century,” saying Washington could no more act as a mediator in the so-called peace process due to its bias towards Tel Aviv.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Abbas went on to say that Washington’s punitive measures against Palestinians would not change their position on “refugee rights.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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Amid tensions with Palestinians, the US ended its decades of funding for the UN agency<\/a> that helps Palestinian refugees and slashed aid for projects in the West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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