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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Palestinian Authority Appeals to US to Stop Car Cable Project in Jerusalem

A general view from the Mount of Olives shows Jerusalem's Old City with the Dome of the Rock in the al-Aqsa compound, Dec. 9, 2021. (AFP)

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Sunday appealed to the US administration and international community, mainly UNESCO, to exert pressure on Israel to halt the construction of a cable car project in occupied East Jerusalem.

On Sunday, Israeli and Palestinian opponents of an Israeli plan to run a cable car over Jerusalem to the walls of the Old City lost their Supreme Court case against a project they argued would alter its ancient landscape.

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