JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli participants in a nationalist march through a Palestinian area of Jerusalem chanted “death to Arabs” on Wednesday, stoking already surging tensions as the war in Gaza rages.
Associated PressJERUSALEM — Israeli participants in a nationalist march through a Palestinian area of Jerusalem chanted “death to Arabs” on Wednesday, stoking already surging tensions as the war in Gaza rages.
The marchers also chanted anti-Islamic slogans outside of the Damascus Gate, a central gathering place for Palestinians in east Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been mostly calm throughout the Israel-Hamas war, but the march could ignite widespread tensions, as it did three years ago, when it helped set off an 11-day war in Gaza.
The annual 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. Israel considers all of Jerusalem to be its capital, but its annexation of east Jerusalem is not internationally recognized. The Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, see the march as a provocation.
As buses bringing young Jewish men in for the march thronged around the Old City’s centuries-old walls, Palestinian shopkeepers closed down in the Muslim Quarter in preparation.
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