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'Day of Rage' in Jerusalem leaves dozens injured
12 Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli forces since Trump's controversial 6 December announcement
Published in Daily News Egypt on 31 - 12 - 2017

Dozens of Palestinians were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank and Gaza on Friday as thousands took to the streets in a fresh "Day of Rage" protest over US President Donald Trump's controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
It was the fourth week in a row that Palestinians demonstrated after Friday prayers. At least 50 people were wounded by Israeli gun fire, with some of the most violent exchanges occurring along the Gaza border.
An Israeli military spokesperson said 4,000 Palestinians protested across the occupied territories, with some throwing rocks and fire bombs and setting tires on fire. Most of the protesters were met with tear gas, according to the Israeli military, but there was an acknowledgement that soldiers also responded with gunfire.
Israeli soldiers took aim at the "main instigators" who supposedly posed a direct threat to the troops while trying to damage the security fence along the border.
In Gaza, demonstrators chanted "Death to America, death to Israel, and death to Trump," and militants fired rockets into Israel, prompting retaliatory strikes by Israeli tanks and aircraft.
"In response to the rockets fired towards Israel, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) tanks and IAF (Israeli Air Force) aircraft targeted two posts belonging to the terrorist organisation Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip," the military said in a statement.
Israel said it targeted posts belonging to Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave, after intercepting two of the three rockets fired into Israel. The third rocket struck a building, causing damage but no casualties.
Twelve Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces since Trump's controversial announcement on 6 December.
Trump's declaration sparked outrage among Palestinians and across the Middle East, as well as infuriating world powers. He reversed decades of US policy on one of the most sensitive issues at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel wants Jerusalem to be its eternal and indivisible capital, but Palestinians want the city's eastern sector to be the capital of an independent Palestinian state. Israel captured the eastern portion of Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War and subsequently annexed it in a move that has never been recognised internationally.
Many countries regard Jerusalem's status as something to be negotiated during peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, although that peace process is currently stalled.
The UN General Assembly rejected Trump's Jerusalem declaration during a vote on 21 December.
Among the 193 UN members, nine opposed the resolution and a further 35 abstained, while 128 countries supported the resolution. Twenty one countries did not vote at all.


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