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JERUSALEM : US Embassy road signs went up in Jerusalem on Monday last, ahead of this weeks opening of the mission in accordance with -

President Donald Trump's recognition of the city as Israel's capital.

Trump says he is making good on US legislation and presidential pledges dating back decades.

Other world powers have not done so, sidestepping one of the thorniest disputes between Israel and the Palestinians, who want their own state with West Jerusalem as the capital.

Workmen installed the black-and-white signs in English, Hebrew and Arabic, along roads leading to a US Consulate building in south Jerusalem that will be -

Remodelled as the embassy when it formally relocated from Tel Aviv on May 14.

''This is not a dream. It is reality. I am proud and moved to have hung this morning the first new signs that were prepared for the US Embassy,'' Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat wrote on Twitter.

Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordanian control in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in a move not recognised internationally.

The last round of peace talks on a Palestinian state collapsed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip collapsed in 2014.

''This [embassy] move is not only illegal but will also thwart the achievement of a just and lasting peace between two sovereign  and democratic states on the 1967 borders -

Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security,'' Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said in a statement.