This article in Al-Jazeera details the security challenges during the annual “flag day” march by Orthodox Jews and settlers in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. With over 2,000 police deployed, flag-waving ethnonationalists celebrated the Israeli capture of East Jerusalem in 1967 with racist epithets and provocative slogans like “death to Arabs.” This march took place only days after a ceasefire was reached between the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Israel, after 33 Palestinians were killed in a four-day Israeli bombardment.
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