Police cleared Palestinians out of the area, which is normally a bustling Palestinian thoroughfare. At one point, a drone flying a Palestinian flag flew overhead before police intercepted it.
Thousands of people normally take part in the march through the Muslim Quarter, including some who shout out nationalistic or racist slogans toward the Palestinians, before making their way to the Western Wall in the Jewish Quarter on the other side of the Old City. At the same time, some 19 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian attackers in Israel and the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, while over 35 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank. Some were armed, while others were shot while allegedly throwing stones or firebombs at troops. But several appear appear to have been uninvolved in any violence, including Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known correspondent for the Al Jazeera satellite channel.
The compound also is the holiest site for Jews, who call it the Temple Mount and revere it as the home of the biblical Temples. The competing claims to the site lie at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and have triggeredPolice also said one of the Jewish groups “violated visitation rules” and was removed. Israeli media said the group had unfurled Israeli flags in the compound.
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, accused Israel of “playing with fire irresponsibily and recklessly.”
Why tho.
ninaturner The oppressed have become the oppressors
ninaturner This is infuriating
It blows the mind how people don't recognize this as fascism and we need to stop indirectly supporting it. A country whose central bank also decided to stop carrying a portion of our currency to buy CHINESE YEN! Even Republicans at this point should be in outrage.
ninaturner That hard-hitting journalism, lmao
Should we just nuke the whole planet? Humans are vile
Since many Arab nations have had nationalists that chant “death to Jews” & “death to America” for decades, what would you expect?
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Carlists4Pete Disgusting country
It is provocation. From God's chosen people?
Provocation or a call to genocide
Not just Palestinians view it as a provocation. Israel performing its annual Pogrom of Palestinians celebration is intimidation of pogroms to come. It is a form of state sanctioned terrorism.
Did you view it as a provocation when those nationalists bombed your Gaza office?
This is all stupid. Love doesn’t exist. People love to hate
How could they see it as a provocation?
*Palestinians and anyone not a raging lunatic view as a provocation*
That’s like almost everyone that votes in Israel tho. This isn’t the fringe. This is not partisan. It’s pop culture.
“Israeli nationalists,” is there another kind of Israeli?
youssefmaguid lol, the Caucasity to chants of “Death to Arabs” as something that is “viewed” as a provocation by Palestinians vs just calling it an unequivocal and direct racist provocation against Arabs as a whole
How else would you view 'Death to Arabs' Your bias is disgusting.
Pitiful and disgusting.
🤔Jewish people wouldn't do that🤨I guess people get bold when they have the numbers and a military behind them😏
Nationalism is Fool’s Gold. The problem is that there are a lot of fools all over the world.
‘view as’? VIEW AS!?!? AP, are you f-in kidding me?
maybe Palestinians view it as a provocation, because it IS provocation