Latest: Muslim leaders call for East Jerusalem to be recognised as Palestine's capital

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has told Arab and Islamic leaders that the United States is no longer fit to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal and should be replaced as mediator by the United Nations.

Latest: Muslim leaders call for East Jerusalem to be recognised as Palestine's capital

Update 4.20pm: Muslim nations have "rejected and condemned" President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and have called on the world to recognise east Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state.

The Istanbul Declaration on Freedom for al-Quds, the Arabic name of Jerusalem, follows today's extraordinary summit of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

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