Angered by Trump, Palestinian protesters interrupt US business seminar

BETHLEHEM – Palestinians protesting opposite US President Donald Trump’s process on Jerusalem halted a US-coordinated Palestinian selling seminar in a West Bank on Tuesday, deleterious an American tactful car as it sped away.

Protesters threw tomatoes during a sports application vehicle, that had US consular permit plates, kicked one of a doors and ripped a cosmetic surrounding off a side counterpart as it gathering off underneath Palestinian military chaperon from a Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce.

Samir Hazboun, a chamber’s director, told Reuters that a digital selling seminar was underneath approach when about 5 protesters barged in.

“We hosted an American consultant on this issue. Some people who have been perplexing to demonstrate their indicate of perspective and critique (against) a American preference per Jerusalem and a domestic conditions … interrupted a seminar and we stopped a workshop,” Hazboun said.

The US Consulate in Jerusalem, that helped classify a workshop, declined evident comment.

The US-based techer was not a consular staff member. He was accompanied by consular confidence crew and some of a Palestinian employees, organizers said.

Trump’s Dec. 6 proclamation noticing Jerusalem as Israel’s collateral overturned decades of US process that a standing should be motionless in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

His stipulation drew concept defamation from Arab leaders, influenced Palestinian travel protests and drew widespread general criticism.

On a revisit to Israel final week, US Vice President Mike Pence pronounced that Trump’s betrothed relocation of a US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would take place by a finish of 2019. Palestinians boycotted Pence’s visit.

Israel’s supervision regards Jerusalem as a almighty and indivisible collateral of a country. Palestinians contend easterly Jerusalem, prisoner by Israel in a 1967 war, contingency be a collateral of a state they find in a West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In a Aida interloper stay nearby Bethlehem on Saturday, effigies of Trump and Pence were hanged and burnt in a critique attended by about 30 Palestinians.