WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops have clashed with Palestinians protesting against the new U.S. policy on al-Quds in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
The Palestinians carrying national flags took to the Bethlehem streets on Wednesday, for the seventh consecutive day since U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of al-Quds as the "capital" of the occupying regime.
The Zionist troops used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.
Latest reports say some 40 Palestinians, among them officials from the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, were detained by Zionist troops during raids on the West Bank cities over the past few hours.
On December 6, Trump declared that Washington was recognizing al-Quds as the "capital” of the regime and that he had instructed his administration to begin the process of moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city.
The decision sparked a wave of global condemnations, demonstrations and warnings of further conflagration in the Middle East.
The entire al-Quds is currently under the Zionist regime’s control, while the regime also claims the city’s eastern part, which hosts the third holiest Muslim site. The city has been designated as "occupied” under international law since the 1967 Arab War, which Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.

‘Al-Quds Capital of Palestine’

Scores of Israeli Arabs have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to vent their anger at U.S. President Donald Trump’s new policy on al-Quds, saying the ancient city is the capital of Palestine, not that of the occupying entity.
The demonstrators, among them Arab members of the Zionist regime’s parliament, rallied outside the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday night.
Carrying Palestinian flags, the protesters chanted slogans such as, "Trump, Israel, Jerusalem (al-Quds) is Arab. Jerusalem is Muslim,” "capital of Palestine,” "Trump=new Balfour,” referring to the 1917 Balfour Declaration that paved the way for the creation of the Israeli entity.
They also carried signs and banners reading, "The United States is the snake itself,” "Trump’s decision violates international law,” "Hands off al-Quds” and "America isolated itself from the international community.”
The event was organized by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, an independent political organization that coordinates the activities of various Israeli Arab bodies.