February 8, 2021 at 11:45 am On 6 December 2017, the then US President Donald Trump formally recognised the Palestinian city of Jerusalem as the capital of the occupation state of Israel: "Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel's capital:" He then relocated the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Following Trump's decision, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas suspended contacts with Washington. The relationship soured, and Trump closed the PLO office in the US capital and stopped donations for several essential aid programmes in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the annual donation to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).