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There have been violent clashes near the US embassy in Lebanon, in the latest protest against president Donald Trump\u2019s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.<\/p>\n
Security forces fired tear gas and water cannon to force back flag-waving protesters close to the embassy complex north of the capital, Beirut.<\/p>\n
Overnight, the Arab League condemned the US decision.<\/p>\n
It said the US could not be relied upon as a broker of Middle East peace.<\/p>\n
The protesters threw stones and set fires in the street close to the embassy in the Awkar district.<\/p>\n
Security forces had barricaded the main road leading to the large complex.<\/p>\n
Local media reported that some protesters had tried to break through the entrance to the compound, climbing barbed wire.<\/p>\n
The demonstrators, many wearing black and white scarves, chanted slogans denouncing Trump.<\/p>\n
Lebanon Communist Party leader, Hanna Gharib, told the protesters the US was \u201cthe enemy of Palestine\u201d.<\/p>\n
One group set an effigy of the US president alight.<\/p>\n
Lebanon is home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, including those who fled Israel after it was founded, and their descendants.<\/p>\n
In other developments, thousands of people demonstrated outside the US embassy in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, some waving banners reading \u201cPalestine is in our hearts\u201d.<\/p>\n
A burning object was thrown at a synagogue in the Swedish city of Gothenburg late on Saturday in what police said was a failed arson attempt. Jewish community leader Allan Stutzinsky said recent events had led to \u201chigher threats\u201d<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be in Paris on Sunday for talks with president Emmanuel Macron, ahead of meetings with European Union foreign ministers on Monday.<\/p>\n
There have been three days of protests by Palestinians and their supporters since Trump\u2019s announcement, both in the region and in nations further afield.<\/p>\n
Israel has always regarded Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem \u2013 occupied by Israel in the 1967 war \u2013 as the capital of a future Palestinian state.<\/p>\n
Trump has said his decision fulfills a campaign promise and that it is \u201cnothing more or less than a recognition of reality\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Arab League resolution came overnight after hours of talks in Cairo. It was backed by a number of US allies, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, who had already voiced their concern.<\/p>\n
The resolution said The US had \u201cwithdrawn itself as a sponsor and broker\u201d of any possible Israeli-Palestinian peace process through its decision; Trump\u2019s move \u201cdeepens tension, ignites anger and threatens to plunge the region into more violence and chaos\u201d; a request would be made for the United Nations Security Council to condemn the move\u2014BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There have been violent clashes near the US embassy in Lebanon, in the latest protest against president Donald Trump\u2019s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Security forces fired tear gas and water cannon to force back flag-waving protesters close to the embassy complex north of the capital, Beirut. Overnight, the Arab […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57444,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57439\/revisions\/57444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}