(26 May 2025)
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Jerusalem – 26 May 2025
1. Israeli ultranationalists entering Damascus Gate into the Old City of Jerusalem chanting (Hebrew) "Death to Arabs"
2. Police pushing back pro-Palestinian activist
3. Ultranationalists marchers with flags chanting
4. Ultranationalists chanting (Hebrew) "Palestinians, damn them"
5. Various of marchers advancing with police following them
6. Tilt down from Israeli flag in Old City alley to marchers
7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Moshe Peretz, marcher:
"You can see it like that (as a provocation) but we don’t. We don’t look at it this way. (Youngster passes by and shouts "Death to the Arabs"), we look at it in such a way that we are marching, a march of joy to connect to Jerusalem. With feet, body, and soul from within the whole of Israel."
8. Marchers carrying banner reading (Hebrew): "Without the Nakba there is no victory" and singing "whoever believes is not afraid"
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Natti (no surname given), volunteer from the pro-peace organisation, Standing Together:
"We already (for) two years now, we are coming to Jerusalem to stand between the pogromists and the shopkeepers and civilians that are walking around
(Warning: man behind interviewee making the finger of honour and putting his hand in front of the camera lens and saying
"don’t film me, don’t film me")
"We’re here to stand between the pogromists and the civilians and the shopkeepers, to stop them before the police is able to get here. There are not enough people."
10. Police pushing man back
11. Marchers chanting (Hebrew) "Gaza is ours"
12. Police following marchers
13. Various of marchers singing and chanting
STORYLINE:
Groups of Israeli ultranationalists made their way through neighbourhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday, during an annual march marking Israel’s conquest of the eastern part of the city.
Tour buses carrying ultranationalists lined up near entrances to the Old City, bringing hundreds from outside Jerusalem, including settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Police, who called the procession the “Dance of Flags,” said they had detained a number of people and “acted swiftly to prevent violence, confrontations and provocations.”
Palestinian shopkeepers closed early and police lined the alleys ahead of the march that often becomes a rowdy and sometimes violent procession of ultranationalists.
Police kept a close watch as demonstrators jumped, danced and sang.
Volunteers from the pro-peace organization Standing Together and the Free Jerusalem collective, which works with Palestinians in Jerusalem, tried to position themselves between the marchers and residents to prevent violence.
The march commemorates Jerusalem Day, which marks Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem, including the Old City and its holy sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims, in the 1967 Mideast war.
The event threatened to inflame tensions that are rife in the restive city amid nearly 600 days of war in Gaza.
Jerusalem lies at the heart of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
Each sees the city as a key part of their national and religious identity.
It is one of the most intractable issues of the conflict and is often a flashpoint.
Israel considers all of Jerusalem to be its eternal, undivided capital.
Its annexation of east Jerusalem is not internationally recognised.
Palestinians want an independent state with east Jerusalem as its capital.
Four years ago, the march helped set off an 11-day war in Gaza.
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