The UN Security Council is expected to vote today on a draft resolution rejecting the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, less than two weeks after US President Donald Trump made the announcement.
Trump declared the move on December 6, saying at the time that the US would be moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The leaked Egyptian-drafted resolution obtained by Al Jazeera, however, does not mention the United States by name, saying it “deeply regrets recent decisions regarding the status of Jerusalem”.
Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from the UN headquarters in New York, said it was understood that countries such as Egypt and the UK “wanted to try and keep the language as neutral as possible in a – possibly vain – attempt to keep the US from exercising its Security Council veto”.
The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, however, see East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
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