- Title: Palestinians protest Kushner 'economy first' approach to Mideast peace
- Date: 25th June 2019
- Summary: JERICHO, WEST BANK (JUNE 25, 2019) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS BURNING EMPTY CASKET WITH SIGN READING (Arabic): "DEAL OF THE CENTURY, BORN DEAD." PROTESTERS SURROUNDING EMPTY CASKET WITH SIGN READING (Arabic): "DEAL OF THE CENTURY, BORN DEAD." PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS CARRYING EMPTY CASKET, WAVING PALESTINIAN FLAGS AND FATAH FLAGS PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATOR SAEB EREKAT CLAPPING AT DEMONSTRATION PALESTINIANS WAVING PALESTINIAN AND FATAH FLAGS AT DEMONSTRATION VARIOUS OF EREKAT VIEWING DOCUMENT (SOUNDBITE) (English) PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATOR SAEB EREKAT, SAYING: "This team is not balanced at all. This team is trying to dictate the program of the settlers council, and it’s a total failure. I would not give this paper a 'D' just for effort." GAZA CITY, GAZA (JUNE 25, 2019) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS STEPPING OVER POSTERS OF U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WITH HIS SON IN-LAW JARED KUSHNER AND POSTER OF TRUMP WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU PROTESTERS GATHERED PROTESTERS BURNING POSTER OF ISRAELI FLAG WOMEN PROTESTERS HOLDING SIGN READING (Arabic): ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT, WOMEN LABOR DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN REGION." YOUNG GIRL HOLDING SIGN AT DEMONSTRATION READING (Arabic):" BAHRAIN CONFERENCE IS THE WORK OF SATAN." WOMEN DEMONSTRATORS HOLDING SIGN READING (Arabic): "BRING DOWN MANAMA CONFERENCE. A CONFERENCE OF SHAME." BOY WEARING HEADBAND READING (Arabic):" EVERYTHING FOR YOU JERUSALEM." LOCK ON STORE THAT IS CLOSED IN GENERAL STRIKE BLACK FLAGS HANGING ON POLES AS PART OF DEMONSTRATION AGAINST BAHRAIN CONFERENCE VARIOUS OF SIGN HANGING AT STREET, READING (Arabic): "IN REJECTION TO DEAL OF THE CENTURY AND THE BAHRAIN CONFERENCE, TAKE PART IN THE GENERAL STRIKE TAKING PLACE ON TUESDAY 15.06.2019." (MUTE) VIEW OF HOUSES NEAR GAZA BEACH (MUTE) FISHERMEN BOATS EMPTY AT GAZA PORT (MUTE) EMPTY GAZA PORT (MUTE) VIEW OF MOSQUE (MUTE) VIEW OF GAZA CITY PEOPLE AT MARKET GROCERY STORE OWNER, ABDO HIJO, IN FRONT OF STORE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) GROCERY STORE OWNER, ABDO HIJO, SAYING: "Trump is coming up with new decisions and coming up with new solutions such as divisions and giving us money, we do not want money. We want to live, we want our own country like the rest of the world." CARS DRIVING BY STREET SIGN READING (Arabic): "CONFERENCE OF SHAME AT BAHRAIN WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN." STREET SCENE
- Embargoed: 9th July 2019 12:07
- Keywords: Gaza West Bank protest strike
- Location: GAZA CITY, GAZA/JERICHO, WEST BANK
- City: GAZA CITY, GAZA/JERICHO, WEST BANK
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA001AKU7MMF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Palestinians staged protests on Tuesday (June 25) across the West Bank and Gaza as the first stage of President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan was launched at a conference the White House touts as a bid to begin drumming up $50 billion in investment but which Palestinians deride as an "economy first" approach doomed to fail.
Dozens marched through West Bank city of Jericho and burnt a casket reading 'Deal of the century born dead'. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the team in Bahrain is not balanced and is a total failure.
In Gaza, Palestinians burnt pictures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, before stamping on more pictures on the ground. Shops were closed and black flags and signs rejecting the conference were hung across the empty streets of the coastal city.
The two-day international meeting in Bahrain, led by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been billed as the first part of Washington's long-delayed broader political blueprint to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which will be unveiled at a later date.
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