"Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki said Saturday that the Palestinians have petitioned the UN's top court, alleging that the May inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem was illegal.
The Palestinians have filed a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) 'for violating international law by moving its embassy in Israel to the occupied city of Jerusalem,' he said, quoted by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
In December, US President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, breaking with longstanding US policy, and despite Palestinian claims on east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state...
WAFA reported that the Palestinians asked the ICJ 'to declare that moving the embassy to occupied Jerusalem constituted a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.'
The court said the Palestinian suit, filed on Friday, called on the body 'to order the United States of America to withdraw the diplomatic mission from the Holy City of Jerusalem and to conform to the international obligations flowing from the Vienna Convention'.
An official of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said it was the first time Palestinians had petitioned the court against the United States..."