BEIRUT, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri expressed Monday his condemnation of the United States moving its embassy to Jerusalem.
According to a statement by PM media office, Hariri said "on the eve of Nakba Day on May 15, the U.S. administration declares another catastrophe day, May 14."
Nakba Day is the term used to describe the day the Palestinians were forced to displace from their lands and homes by the Israelis on May 15, 1948.
"We reaffirm our rejection of the decision to consider Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. We also consider the transfer of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem as a step that puts all peaceful tracks in the region in front of a dead end," Hariri stressed.
He expressed his "deepest" regret over this decision that provokes the anger of hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims, inflames violence, allows the Israelis to "spill the blood of more innocent Palestinians, and increases the intensity of extremism that threatens the world."
The prime minister concluded by calling on the international community to act quickly to stop the "horrific massacres" and help the Palestinians establish an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
