Newly graduated police officers attend a parade holding Dome of the Rock model, during their graduation ceremony organised by the Palestinian Government in Gaza City, yesterday.
Gaza City: A senior Hamas leader has warned the new US President, Donald Trump, against plans to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, saying it would harm regional stability.
In a statement posted on the Hamas website on Sunday, Moussa Abu Marzouq said: “The relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem will pose an increasing danger.”
Abu Marzouq slammed statements by Trump and his aides, saying they “neither serve stability in the region nor serve the US itself”. The new American president had pledged during his electoral campaign to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem despite reluctance to do so by past administrations -— Republican and Democrat alike.
While Israel claims the city as its "eternal capital" after occupying East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israel war, the international community does not recognize the claim and foreign embassies are currently located in Tel Aviv.
Haniyah in Cairo for talks
Cairo: Ismail Haniyah, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau, arrived in Cairo on Sunday evening with an accompanying delegation for talks with Egyptian officials, Egyptian sources said.
According to a security source at Cairo International Airport, Haniyah and his delegation will remain in Cairo for several days, during which they will discuss recent developments in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip with Egyptian officials.
Haniyah and his delegation were received at the airport by members of an Egyptian "sovereign authority", the source said, speaking anonymously due to restrictions on talking to media.
"Haniyah, accompanied by several Hamas leaders, arrived in Egypt’s capital on Sunday evening from Qatari capital Doha," a source close to Hamas confirmed.
