A delegation of U.S. officials on their way to an event in the occupied West Bank on Monday were most certainly not welcome as their convoy was met with a volley of eggs and Palestinians holding signs while entering the town of Beit Jala, outside Bethlehem.
According to a photographer at the scene, the angered residents held up signs that read: “US government you are not welcome in Palestine” and “Hey Trump, Jerusalem is not the capital of Zion.”
The display of animous towards the delegation came exactly one week after the Trump administration officially moved the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem—a move seen as a direct assault on the so-called “peace process” and the demand that East Jerusalem ultimately become the future capital of an independent Palestinian state.
Both the Israeli government and its U.S. backers are under fire by human rights organizations and the international legal community for the ongoing occupation as well as the killing of more than 60 people by IDF soldiers who opened fire on demonstrators in Gaza, also last Monday.
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