Rabat has shelved plans for a twin city partnership with Guatemala City in protest against Guatemala’s transfer of its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem.
“Following Guatemala’s decision to establish an embassy in Occupied Jerusalem Rabat’s city council unanimously decided to suspend the examination of a twinning project with Guatemala City in solidarity with the Palestinian people” Rabat’s deputy mayor Lahcen El Amrani of the Islamist PJD party told Reuters.
Guatemala opened an embassy in Occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday two days after the United States inaugurated its new site there a move that infuriated Palestinians and drew international condemnation.
On the day the United States opened its new embassy Israeli troops killed 65 Palestinian demonstrators at the border in Gaza.
The Rabat city council had previously planned to vote on a twinning project with Guatemala City last week.
Guatemala opened an embassy in Rabat its second in Africa in November 2017.
