December 9, 2017— A total of four people have now been killed and dozens wounded since Trump announced the move, which drew criticism from every other member of the UN Security Council at an emergency meeting on Friday.
“There will be no meeting with the vice president of America in Palestine,” Abbas’s diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khaldi told AFP.

   Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 25, 2017

“The United States has crossed all the red lines with the Jerusalem decision,” he added.
Egypt’s Coptic Pope Tawadros II also cancelled a meeting with Pence with the church saying it “declines to receive” him in protest at Trump’s announcement which failed to take into account the “feelings of millions” of Arabs.
That decision came a day after Egypt’s top Muslim cleric, Ahmed al-Tayeb who heads Al-Azhar, also scrapped plans to meet the US vice president over the “unjust and unfair American decision on Jerusalem”.
There were fresh clashes on Saturday as Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank hurled stones at Israeli troops, who responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and live rounds.
In the Gaza Strip, mourners vented their anger at the funerals of two people killed by Israeli troops during clashes at the border fence on Friday.

– ‘Violent riots’ –

A woman was wounded by Israeli army fire during clashes at the border following one funeral attended by thousands in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis.
An Israeli army statement said “violent riots have erupted at approximately 20 locations” in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip” with protesters throwing rocks, petrol bombs and rolling burning tires at troops.

  Israeli security forces detain a Palestinian protester on December 9, 2017, in annexed east Jerusalem where police dispersed a protest

It said soldiers responded with unspecified “riot dispersal means” lightly wounding three Palestinians.
In Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem police fired stun grenades to disperse Palestinian demonstrators on the main Salahedin street, an AFP cameraman said.
Israeli police said the protest was “illegal” and the Palestinian Red Crescent said 12 Palestinians were injured by shrapnel from grenades or by blows from police.

   Palestinians inspect the damage from an Israeli air strike on a a Hamas military facility in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on December 9, 2017

– Intifada calls –

Dozens of protesters were wounded by rubber bullets or live fire in clashes in the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem that followed the main weekly Muslim prayers on Friday.
Tens of thousands also protested in Muslim and Arab countries, including Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia.

  A Palestinian protester launches a slingshot at Israeli troops manning a checkpoint in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on December 9, 2017

On Friday night, a rocket hit the southern Israeli city of Sderot although Israeli public radio said it did not explode and did not cause any casualties.
The Israeli military said that its Iron Dome air defence system intercepted an earlier rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave.

The military retaliated on Friday night with air strikes on what it said were two targets and the Gaza health ministry said 14 people were wounded, among them women and children.

Source: Extracted from an AFP report