Palestinian activist burned Trump’s pictures

In the first popular reaction to Trump’s inauguration in the Arab world, a number of Palestinian activists set the fire on the pictures of the new U.S president because of his support for Israel.

The U.S President Donald Trump promised many times before to move the U.S embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the matter that raised controversy not only on the Arab or Palestinian arena but also internationally.

The activists gathered at the northern entrance of Bethlehem city, near the apartheid wall which surrounds the Christian holy site to show the newly elected president how much the Palestinian people are suffering under Israeli occupation, they said.

They hung pictures of Trump and wrote slogans rejecting his promise to move the embassy , saying: ”Move the embassy to own your country, not ours!”

Mohammed al-Lahham, member of the Revolutionary Council of Fatah and one of the people who participated in the march, said in a press statement that this action is to remind Trump that Jerusalem is an occupied city, according to international law, and is a PalestinianArabic city

AL–Lahham added that this protest carries a letter to Trump that the Palestinian, Arab, and  all free peoples of the world will not accept the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem because it constitutes a clear bias by US administration in its brutal support for Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

AL-Lahham also said that the protest carries a message to  Arab and Islamic streets, and all liberals of the world, telling them that there is a need for solidarity with the Palestinian people in order to stop this move, which is considered a pause against the rights of the people and the holy sites which also belong to Arab nations.

He ended his talk by saying that Trump is supporting, by his move what he described as Jewish ISIS noting that the occupation government which calls for a “Jewish state” is one not fully differentiated from the Islamic State organization in Syria and Iraqi Daesh, who call for ideological identity, noting that the decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem undermines all love of justice, peace and freedom, and encourages more terror in the region.