Iran Press/Middle East: Referring to Trump's Middle East peace plan which strongly favors Israel, Abbas said: "The Palestinians remain committed to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a state with its capital in east Jerusalem," AP reported.
Speaking in a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, he said: "After the nonsense that we heard today, we say a thousand no’s to the Deal of The Century."
The plan would create a Palestinian state in parts of the West Bank but would allow Israel to annex its settlements in the occupied territory. It also would allow the Palestinians to establish a capital on the outskirts of East Jerusalem but would leave most of the city under Israeli control as its undivided capital city.
"We will not kneel and we will not surrender," Mahmoud Abbas said, adding that the Palestinians would resist the plan through 'peaceful, popular means'.
Hamas (Islamic resistance movement) rejected the conspiracies announced by the US and Israel and said: "All options are open in responding to the Trump administration’s plan."
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"We are certain that our Palestinian people will not let these conspiracies pass. So, all options are open. The (Israeli) occupation and the US administration will bear the responsibility for what they did," senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said as he participated in one of several protests that broke out across the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Protesters burned tires and pictures of Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Abbas held an emergency meeting with other Palestinian factions, including Hamas, to discuss a unified response to the plan. Abbas had rejected the deal before it was announced saying the US was hopelessly biased toward Israel. 101/207
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