Turkey
Numan Kurtulmus, deputy chairman of
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK), also slammed Trump's statements on
Jerusalem, saying:
"No, Trump! Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and the heart of the Islamic world!"
Palestinians
Sami Abu Zhuri, an official of
Hamas which governs the Gaza Strip, said Trump's statement was "aggressive and will spark a lot of anger".
"Trump's statement about Jerusalem is nonsense and Jerusalem will always be the land of the Palestinians," he told Reuters News Agency. "The Palestinians will confront this deal and Jerusalem will remain a Palestinian land."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said "a thousand no's" to the plan.
"After the nonsense that we heard today we say a thousand no's to the Deal of The Century," Abbas said at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered.
He said the Palestinians remain committed to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a state with its capital in east Jerusalem.
"We will not kneel and we will not surrender," Abbas said, adding that the Palestinians would resist the plan through "peaceful, popular means".
Egypt
Egypt urged Israelis and Palestinians to "carefully study" the proposal. The foreign ministry said in a statement that the plan favours a solution that restores all the "legitimate rights" of the Palestinian people through establishing an “independent and sovereign state on the occupied Palestinian territories".
Egypt, which along with Jordan is the only Arab country to have made peace with Israel, said it appreciates the US administration's efforts to try to resolve the decades-old