Some Israelis sing, “died in the Arabs” and “May your village burns”, while they cross the old town of Jerusalem.
The right-wing Israelis in Jerusalem stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque complex and an installation of the United Nations for Palestinian refugees when an annual march took place marking the conquest of Israel of the eastern part of the city.
Some Israelis have chanted, “Death to Arabs” and “May Your Village Burn”, while they were walking in the alleys of the old town of Jerusalem on Monday, passing through the Muslim district to mark the “Jerusalem day”, which commemorates the Israeli occupation and the annexation of Eastern Jerusalem after the war of 1967.
Thousands of strongly armed border police officers were dispatched in advance because the colonists regularly attack, attack and harass the Palestinians and stores in the Muslim district. The settlers live in occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in colonies and outposts, which are illegal under international law.
Groups of young people, some wearing Israeli flags, were seen on Monday to Palestinian traders, passers -by and schoolchildren as well as to militants of Israeli rights and the police, sometimes spitting on people, launching insults and trying to make their way in the houses.
Police have owned at least two young people, according to AFP journalists on the scene.
A small group of these rallies, including an Israeli deputy, stormed a complex in East Jerusalem belonging to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA.
Israel has prohibited the agency from working in the occupied Palestinian territory and in Israel, which has an impact on the safeguard work that it has been carrying out for over 70 years in areas that include the besieged and bombed Gaza Strip.
UNRWA coordinator Roland Friedrich said about a dozen Israeli demonstrators, including Yulia Malinovsky, one of the legislators behind an Israeli law that prohibited UNRWA, entered the complex, climbing his main door with a view to the Israeli police.
The procession of last year, held during the first year of the Israel assault against Gaza, saw ultra -nationalist Israelis attacking a Palestinian journalist in the old town and calling for violence against the Palestinians. And four years ago, the march contributed to the outbreak of an 11 -day war in Gaza.
Earlier Monday, the Minister of Israel on the far right, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and other politicians were part of more than 2,000 Israelis who stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque complex and the surrounding regions.
Ben -Gvir has published a video on his X account from the site – the third more sacred of Islam – saying that he “had prayed for victory in the war, for the return of all our hostages, and for the success of the new head of the Bet of Shin – General David Zini”.
The Neguev and the Minister of Galilee Yitzhak Vaserlauf and the member of Knesset Yitzhak Kreuzer were among those who accompanied the ultra -nationalist minister.
Supported by armed police, Ben-Gvir has carried out similar provocative movements within the premises before, often at sensitive moments of the War of Israel against Gaza, to defend increased military pressure and to block all the humanitarian aid entering Gaza.
The Waqf of Jerusalem-the Islamic authority which oversees the Al-Aqsa mosque complex, known to Muslims under the name of Al-Haram al-Sharif (the noble sanctuary)-decried the assault on the compound of Ben-Gvir and other members of the Israeli region and called for a stop to all “provocative activities” in the region.
Under the management of the WAQF named in Jordan, only Muslims are allowed to pray at the enclosure.
Nida Ibrahim of Tel Aviv Tribune said that the march was aimed at asserting Israeli domination over the city.
“Videos show that Israeli citizens inside the old town of Jerusalem attack Palestinian stores and have launched them objects,” said Ibrahim, reporting from Doha, to Qatar, that Tel Aviv Tribune was forbidden to report in Israel and occupied Jerusalem.
“It is still a reminder that no one has immunity.”
