I am proud and moved to have hung this morning the first new signs that were prepared for the US Embassy,” Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat wrote on Twitter. Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordanian control in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally. At the consulate site, mechanical diggers cleared scrubland as workers posted embassy signs along city roads. An Israeli police spokesman played down such prospects for the US embassy signs. “We’re not guarding the embassy signs but of course there is upgraded security around the embassy which is already being implemented,” he said.

Source: bd News24 May 07, 2018 08:48 UTC