African leaders condemned on Sunday U.S. President Donald Trump’s Israel-Palestinian peace plan as illegitimate, taking advantage of an African Union summit to voice solidarity with "the Palestinian cause.”
AU Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat told the assembled heads of state that the plan unveiled in late January represented the “umpteenth violation of multiple United Nations and African Union resolutions.”
He says that it was prepared without international consultation and that it “trampled on the rights of the Palestinian people,” a line that drew applause in the main hall at AU headquarters.
The outgoing AU chair, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, said in his remarks today that “the Palestinian cause will always be in the hearts and minds of the people of Africa.”