Israeli forces are on high alert for protests in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank against the US declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The BBC reports that hundreds of extra police have been deployed in Jerusalem’s Old City, and additional battalions sent to the West Bank, after clashes there on Thursday.
Dozens of Palestinians were hurt in the violence as protesters fought troops.
Donald Trump’s announcement was hailed by Israel but condemned across the Arab and Islamic world.
Western allies of the US have also disavowed the move, which reversed decades of US policy of neutrality towards Jerusalem’s status.
Israel has always regarded Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem – occupied by Israel in the 1967 war – as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
In recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the US became the first country to do so since the foundation of the state in 1948.
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