RAMALLAH, December 22, 2017 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas Friday stated in a Christmas message that the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has been an “insult to millions of people worldwide and also to the city of Bethlehem”.
Abbas said that the US President Donald Trump’s decision on Jerusalem “has encouraged the illegal disconnection between the holy cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, both separated for the first time in over 2000 years of Christianity.”
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