The plan attaches nearly impossible conditions for granting the Palestinians their hoped-for state, such as allowing the Palestinians to establish a capital on the outskirts of east Jerusalem but leaving most of the city under Israeli control, the AP reported.

This is what a future State of Palestine can look like, with a capital in parts of East Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/39vw3pPrAL — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2020

“If implemented, the plan will doom the only viable solution to this long-running conflict, the two-state solution,” Carter said in the statement.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also dismissed the plan as “nonsense” and vowed to resist it, the AP reported.

“We will not kneel, and we will not surrender,” Abbas said, according to the AP.

The announcement of the plan sparked widespread protests in the West Bank.

Palestinians protest the Mideast plan announced by President Donald Trump. Credit: Mahmoud Illean Credit: Mahmoud Illean

A Palestinian man places a shoe on a television screen broadcasting the announcement of Mideast peace plan by U.S. President Donald Trump, in a coffee ship in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma pic.twitter.com/N7Rm4sCJ87 — Idrees Ali (@idreesali114) January 28, 2020

The Palestinians favor a two-state solution based on borders that were in place before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

The United Nations has already issued several resolutions declaring all Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal, contrary to Trump's solution.

Trump’s plan “violates the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders, which is codified in a long line of United Nations Security Council resolutions from 242 (1967) to 2334 (2016),” Carter said.

“Further, the proposal breaches international law regarding self-determination, the acquisition of land by force, and annexation of occupied territories,” according to Carter's statement. “By calling Israel ‘the nation state of the Jewish people,’ the plan also encourages the denial of equal rights to the Palestinian citizens of Israel.”

Carter ends the statement by urging the UN “to adhere to UN Security Council resolutions and to reject any unilateral Israeli implementation of the proposal by grabbing more Palestinian land.”

The Palestinians see the West Bank as the heartland of a future independent state and east Jerusalem as their capital. Most of the international community supports their position, but Trump has reversed decades of U.S. foreign policy by siding more with Israel.

— Reporting by The Associated Press was used to supplement this report.