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Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem in November 2016 Reuters

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem in November 2016 Reuters

Guatemala president has ordered for the transfer of embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, three weeks after the US president Donald Trump did the same.

Guatemala is among the nine countries that voted in favour of the UN resolution on the recognition of Israel as the capital of Jerusalem late last week.

The resolution passed at the UN declared the US action on Jerusalem “null and void

The United Nations General Assembly votes 128-9 to declare the United States’ Jerusalem capital recognition ‘null and void’

The 128-9 vote was a victory for Palestinians, but fell short of the total they had predicted.No other country has their embassy for Israel in Jerusalem, though the Czech Republic has said it is considering such a move.

Mr Trump suspended decades of US policy with his announcement on December 6 that he was recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Though Mr Trump said he was merely recognising reality and not prejudging negotiations on the future borders of the city, Palestinians saw the move as siding with Israel on the most sensitive issue in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians claim the city’s eastern sector, which was captured by Israel in 1967 and is home to sensitive religious sites.

Many governments have long said that the fate of Jerusalem must be resolved through negotiations.

Mr Trump’s announcement has set off weeks of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces that have left 12 Palestinians dead.

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