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Palestinians in West Bank Burn Effigy of Secretary of State Pompeo

The incident came in response to Pompeo’s visit to Israel and the Trump administration’s peace plan.
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May 17, 2020
Palestinian workers try to enter Israel through a checkpoint between the West Bank city of Hebron and Beersheba, March 22, 2020. (Mamoun Wazwaz/Xinhua via Getty)

Palestinians in the city of Nablus in the West Bank burned an effigy of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in protest of his visit to Israel on Wednesday and against the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan.

Footage of the incident was posted by the London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed on Thursday.

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