UN Security Council Mulls Nullifying US President’s Al-Quds Move

According to a one-page text seen by Reuters news agency, the 15-member UNSC is reviewing an Egypt-drafted resolution that insists any decisions on the status of al-Quds have no legal effect and must be rescinded. However, the draft does not mention Trump or the US specifically.

According to Reuters, the draft affirms that "any decisions and actions which purport to have altered, the character, status or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem (al-Quds) have no legal effect, are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the Security Council.”

The dramatic shift in Washington’s al-Quds policy triggered massive protests in the occupied Palestinian territories, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco and other Muslim countries.

The Israeli regime lays claim to the entire city as its “capital,” while Palestinians maintain that the flashpoint city is the undisputed capital of a future independent Palestinian state.

The draft resolution also instructs member states not to establish diplomatic missions in al-Quds. The UN maintains that the status of the holy city is a “final status issue” that should be negotiated between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Although the document has reportedly broad support among UNSC members it will likely be vetoed by the US, Israeli regime's old ally that has always vetoed any anti-Tel Aviv resolutions during last decades, expect for Resolution 2334 that Obama administration abstained from voting in December 2016.

The UN Security Council's resolution, approved with 14 member states voting in favor, called on Israel regime to immediately halt its illegal settlement construction in occupied West Bank and East al-Quds.