Moving US Embassy to Jerusalem will ignite region: Palestinian factions

RAMALLAH - Leaders of several Palestinian factions and political powers warned Saturday moving US Embassy to Jerusalem will ignite the region.

"Donald Trump doesn't have the right to move the embassy to an occupied city," said a joint statement of the factions and powers issued in the aftermath of a meeting held in the city of Ramallah.

The factions' statement stressed that the intentions to move the US embassy to Jerusalem "clearly shows the US biased position."

The statement called on the Palestinians for taking practical measures against the decision once it is implemented. It added that moving the embassy "legalized the operations of annexations and the unilateral actions of the Israeli occupation."

Israel Public Radio has earlier reported that a US technical crew had lately checked the site where the US embassy will be in Jerusalem.

Israel insists that the whole city of Jerusalem is the eternal capital of its state, while the Palestinians insist that they want the eastern part of the holly city, which was occupied in 1967, as the capital of their independent Palestinian state.