Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he was "not impressed" by Muslim leaders' statements on occupied Jerusalem after they urged the world to recognize the city's eastern sector as the capital of Palestine.
"We are not impressed by all these statements," Netanyahu said in a speech, saying he believed many countries would follow U.S. President Donald Trump's lead and recognize occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
His comments came after an emergency summit of the world's main pan-Islamic body, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), on Trump's move last week.
"The Palestinians would do better by recognizing reality and acting in favor of peace and not extremism," Netanyahu said.
With the Islamic world mired in division, the summit in Istanbul fell well short of agreeing any concrete sanction against Israel or the United States.
But their final statement declared "East Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine" and invited "all countries to recognize the State of Palestine and East Jerusalem as its occupied capital."
AFP
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