Hundreds of Palestinians protest on Monday against a US economic peace proposal, a day ahead of an American-led conference in Bahrain.
Protesters gathered in cities in the West Bank, including Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron, where clashes broke out, AFP journalists say.
The economic conference, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday in the Gulf Arab state, has been billed by the US as a potential opportunity for the Palestinians to access billions in investment in the event of peace with Israel.
But the Palestinians have already rejected the conference, accusing the United States of pro-Israeli bias and seeking to buy off their ambitions for independence and statehood.
In a protest near Hebron in the southern West Bank, protesters sat around a coffin with the words “No to the deal of the century” on it, a derogatory phrase for US President Donald Trump’s peace proposals.
Protesters also burn pictures of Trump and the King of Bahrain, an AFP correspondent says.
Major Palestinian factions have called for new protests in the West Bank and Gaza on Tuesday.
— AFP
Palestinians carrying stones stand behind a burning tire during clashes following a protest against a US-led meeting this week in Bahrain on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank city of Hebron on June 24, 2019. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
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