US President Donald Trump has announced the details of his long-awaited Middle East peace plan, saying it proposes a realistic two-state solution. However Palestinians have rejected the plan before the details were announced | Read more:
"Today, Israel takes a big step towards peace," Mr Trump told a White House news conference, standing alongside visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he revealed key points of the plan already strongly rejected by the Palestinians.
The plan, Mr Trump said, proposes a four-year freeze of Israeli development in the area eyed for a future Palestinian state.But the plan would also provide the Palestinians with a capital in occupied East Jerusalem, he said, while indicating that the West Bank would not be cut in half under the plan.
No Palestinian official was present at the launch although the ambassadors from three Arab nations - Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain - were at the White House. "We reject this deal. We won't accept any substitute for Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state," senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said.
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