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Turkey
Shots fired at US embassy in Ankara
Six shots were fired at the US embassy – three bullets hit the iron gate and window wall
Arab foreign ministers
Arab League to meet on Gaza violence
Israel has come under international pressure after its border forces on Monday killed some 60 Palestinians protesting against the transfer the same day of the US embassy to Jerusalem
Gaza
Palestinians withdraw envoy to US over Israel embassy move
Husam Zomlot, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in Washington, would return to the Palestinian territories Wednesday,
Donald Trump
Saudi Arabia ‘rejects’ US embassy transfer to Jerusalem
Gulf kingdom says step ‘represents a significant prejudice against the rights of the Palestinian people’
Gaza
Saudi Arabia, UAE slam Israeli fire in Gaza
UAE rejects use of force to confront peaceful demonstrations, which mark the 70th anniversary of Nakba
Gaza
Israeli forces kill 55 in Gaza clashes as US opens Jerusalem embassy
US blocked the adoption of a United Nations Security Council statement that would have called for an independent probe into the violence
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Trump denies US embassy to be moved to Jerusalem within a year
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last month the embassy move was ‘probably no earlier than three years out’