Trump unveils Mideast plan favourable to Israel, angering Palestinians

President Donald Trump has released his long delayed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, promising "a new dawn," but angry Palestinians called it biased and deserving to go in "dustbin of history."

Standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in White House's East Room, Trump said on Tuesday that his plan could succeed where decades of previous US attempts to intervene had failed.

"Toger we can bring about a... new dawn in Middle East," Trump said to an enthusiastic audience that included throngs of Israeli and Jewish American guests -- but apparently Palestinian representatives.

y are flat out rejecting plan, which grants Israel much of what it has sought in decades of international diplomacy, namely control over Jerusalem as its "undivided" capital, rar than a city to share with Palestinians. plan also lets Israel annex West Bank settlements.

Trump praised Israel for taking "a giant step toward peace" with plan, which lays out a vision for future Palestinian statehood if a series of strict conditions are met.

se include requiring future Palestinian state to be "demilitarized," while formalising Israeli sovereignty over settlements built in occupied territory.

US president, who was followed at podium by Netanyahu, painted a future where some USD 50 billion in investments would eradicate misery gripping Palestinians today, while allowing Israel never "to compromise its security."

Criticizing previous US diplomatic efforts as overly vague, Trump ted that his version was 80 ps long and contained a map depicting proposed future neighbouring states.

However, Palestinians angrily rejected entire plan.

"This conspiracy deal will t pass. Our people will take it to dustbin of history," Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said.

Trump promised a "contiguous" future Palestinian state, addressing current situation where Israel controls broad territory separating two main population centers of Gaza Strip and West Bank.

But map showed West Bank remaining riddled with Jewish settlements linked to Israel and only a long road tunnel connecting area with seaside Gaza Strip.

plan makes clear that Israel is free to annex its settlements on Palestinian lands right away.

On flashpoint issue of Jerusalem, Trump said Israel should retain control over city as its "undivided capital," Trump said. At same time, Palestinians would be allowed to declare a capital within occupied East Jerusalem, he said.

Hamas Islamist movement, which runs Gaza Strip, said it could never accept compromise on Jerusalem being capital of a future state.

anuncement came as both Trump and Netanyahu fight for ir political futures.

Trump is in midst of an impeachment battle over his alleged abuse of power and he faces a difficult reelection in vember.

Netanyahu was formally indicted on three corruption charges Tuesday after he abandoned an attempt to seek parliamentary immunity.

His right-wing Likud faces a neck-and-neck race with rival Benny Gantz's centrist Blue and White party in a month. But he is expected to benefit from high-profile partnership with Trump.

Netanyahu called proposal " deal of century" and said to Trump "you have been greatest friend that Israel has ever had in White House." Trump said he had written to Abbas to enlist his support.

"I explained to (Abbas) that territory allocated for his new state will remain open and undeveloped for a period of four years," Trump said. "This could be last opportunity y will ever have."

Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who authored plan behind scenes but had minimal contact with Palestinian negotiators, was similarly blunt, telling m t to "screw up this opportunity."

"I think that y will have a very hard time looking at international community in face, saying y're victims," he told CNN.

Trump's plan triggered immediate condemnation on streets of Gaza Strip and West Bank, with demonstrations expected to continue through week.

Thirteen people were wounded in West Bank in clashes with Israeli army, Red Crescent said.

re was also anger from Israeli hardliners. Transport Minister Bezalel Smotrich, from far-right Yemina union, said his party "won't under any conditions agree to recognition, wher explicit or implicit, of a Palestinian state."

ambassadors from three Arab nations - Oman, UAE and Bahrain - were at White House, providing some evidence of Trump's claim to have growing support around region.

But international reaction was at best cautiously positive.

Saudi Arabia said it "appreciates" Trump's efforts and called for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Russia, a growing force in Mideast politics, sounded skeptical.

"We do t kw if American proposal is mutually acceptable or t," Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdav told Russian news ncies.

Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell said bloc would "study and assess" US proposals, while Germany's foreign minister said "only a negotiated two-state solution, acceptable to both sides" would work.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called it a "serious proposal, reflecting extensive time and effort."

Among strongest foreign condemnations were from Turkey, which branded plan "stillborn" and Iran, which called it "doomed to fail."