Palestinians rise up against Trump's peace plan

Atef Douglas-Nablus

At a time when US President Donald Trump declared, accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a special conference in the White House, announcing the American plan for peace in the Middle East, known as the "Deal of the Century", throats of Palestinians in various cities of the West Bank and Gaza Strip were loudly louder. Her voice announced her refusal of this deal, but rather Trump himself.

On the impact of the revolutionary songs, the Palestinian demonstrators, who went out with mass rallies Wednesday evening, chanted, "Listen, listen, Trump ... we are the difficult number" and "Your horn deal does not pass ... We are people of flesh of bitter", as they called and crossed their chants the Arab people for the revolution, rejecting this deal by burning US embassies and economic facilities in the Arab countries.

In the city of Nablus, as in the rest of the West Bank, thousands of Palestinians went out to reject the Trump deal carrying the Palestinian flag, and they burned figures and pictures of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Trump and others embodying the "Deal of the Century".

The demonstrators set out in a march that roamed the city square and its streets, amid chants calling for Palestinian unity, ending the division and activating the "real" resistance that protects the Palestinian people with their dignity and preserves their rights.

The demonstrators in Nablus also carried a model in the form of a coffin and placed pictures of Trump and Netanyahu and those who coordinated and prepared this deal before they burned it.

The biggest response
Political and national leaders considered that the meeting that took place at the headquarters of the Palestinian boycott in Ramallah between the Palestinian blocs from the leaders of the national and Islamic factions is the biggest response to Trump and his deal, which is the actual immediate start to end the division and to drop this deal, which they considered an extension of the Balfour Declaration.

Abdel Ilah Al-Atirah, a member of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement, told Al-Jazeera Net that these crowds remember the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 and the Stone Intifada before it, adding that the resistance "approved by international law" is a legitimate right of the Palestinian people.

He added that the people today say their words in rejecting the deal of the century and send a clear message from all Palestinian cities to Trump and that he will drop it as it did others.

Al-Atirah considered that the meeting in Ramallah between all the national and Islamic factions and the contact of the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this afternoon is the first and real step to end the division, “Everyone is called to end the division,” and he said, “They will not spare the blood of 130 thousand martyrs.” More than a million wounded, "and we will not lose a seed from Jerusalem."

Disengage
Majida al-Masri, a member of the political leadership of the Democratic Front, also considered that the response to the deal of the century must come from the meeting of the unified leadership in Ramallah and the adoption of previous decisions of the Central and National Council that called for the disengagement with Israel and the end of the Oslo agreement and stop security coordination and withdraw recognition of Israel.

Al-Masry told Al-Jazeera Net that their announcement of the century deal was originally an end to the Oslo agreement, stressing that the people have a high willingness to sacrifice, but he wants a clear and unified stance on his leadership.

In the cities of Ramallah, Tulkarem, Jenin and Bethlehem, several demonstrations took place and roamed the streets, and the demonstrators announced their rejection of the century deal and their support for the Palestinian President, and loudspeakers in Palestinian mosques began to open the Noble Qur’an to mourn the announcement of the deal.

The sit-in protesters in Tulkarm burned pictures of President Trump and announced a commercial strike tomorrow, Wednesday, and the Palestinian Coordination Committee called for the launch of its protest activities on Wednesday.

In the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian factions, in joint statements, extended their calls to the leadership of the Palestinian Authority to disengage from the Oslo agreement, and the Hamas movement valued President Mahmoud Abbas’s position of inviting it to attend the meeting in Ramallah, and announced its rejection of every step demanding its disarmament.

On Wednesday, the Palestinian Valley will witness the first activities rejecting the deal of the century and annexing the Jordan Valley to the occupation. An initiative to support the northern Jordan Valley will be launched with the participation of the national factions and the institutions of the wall and settlements, where the land will be tilled and cultivated.

Clashes and clashes
Immediately after the American President announced the deal of the century, dozens of Palestinian youths rose up in the cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Qalqilya and Bethlehem and clashed with the occupation soldiers, and the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that many were suffocated by tear gas.

A citizen was injured by rubber bullets at the entrance to the northern city of Al-Bireh, near Ramallah. Others were suffocated in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of Jerusalem.

The Israeli occupation army had started, since the morning hours, to deploy in several areas and basic dialogue in the West Bank, especially cohesion points and military checkpoints, and to close the entrances to Palestinian villages and cities, as he did at the entrance to the city of Al-Bireh north of Ramallah and areas south of Nablus, and he tightened its procedures on barriers through Erecting numerous mobile barriers and detaining and searching Palestinian vehicles.

It is expected that the cities of the West Bank will witness, on Wednesday and the coming days, active mobility and clashes with the Israeli occupation and its settlers, in points of contact in various regions, as an extension of the activities rejecting the deal of the century.