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Thursday, December 21, 2017
Palestinian envoy: Jerusalem decision an ‘aggression’ against Palestinians
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, says that the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “constitutes an aggression towards the Palestinian people.”
“This decision will not affect the status of the city,” he says. “But it does affect the status of the United States as a mediator of peace.”