“On this day, we feel that we are imprisoned not only inside our homes, but also prisoners of fear, the roads are closed and the police wander around every alley, and the settlers scream, sing and provoke us with Israeli flags, and we are trapped and we are prevented from moving or living normally … even the air we feel that we have no right to inhale that day.”
With these words, the young woman (LA), who lives in the Old City of Jerusalem, when asked how Jewish celebrations affect the day of “unification of Jerusalem” on their lives, as the residents of the ancient are prepared before the arrival of this Israeli national occasion.
The march of flags, or what is known as the “dance of the flags” is one of the most prominent manifestations of Judaization policies east of Jerusalem, and it is an annual event in which tens of thousands of Israeli settlers and Yemenis participate. It will be held on the 28th of the eighth month according to the Hebrew calendar, which falls next Monday, which is known as “the Day of Jerusalem Unification”, in which Israel celebrates its control of Jerusalem and its occupation of the eastern part of it during the June 1967 war, known in the Arab world “as a setback.”
“Police protection attacks”
On their preparations for this day, (LA) told Al -Jazeera Net, “All the population recommends each other to close the windows and pay attention to the children and ensure not to leave the house .. Whoever succeeds in spending this day outside the old town is lucky, and whoever does not succeed remains in his home to protect himself and his property by all means, because if any accident occurs, no one protects him.”
Regarding the attacks that affect the Jerusalemites and their property at the hands of the settlers participating in the march of “The Flags Dance”, this Jerusalem said that it is not limited to insulting and screaming and deliberately performing racist songs in a loud voice, but rather exceeds this to the physical assault that sometimes leads to different fractures, and to sabotage the property such as losing doors and destroying windows.
As for the role of the occupation police on this day, this Jerusalem -who is a resident of Haret Al -Saadia -says that the police guard the settlers and close the roads in front of the Jerusalemites and search our children, and in the event that any emergency occurred as the need of one of the families to transport a patient with an ambulance that broke down in opening the barrier, forcing the parents to carry the patient themselves and transfer him outside the historical walls.
“We stick to Jerusalem more”
(L.) concluded by talking about her feelings as a holy thing as she watches tens of thousands of Israeli flags that the extremists wave in the door of the column and in front of her house in the alleys of the old town, and she said, “God is indescribable … The keys to our homes in our hearts because Jerusalem is for us, and if they raise thousands of flags, we are present in every angle, stone and breath. “
The two main paths for the Judaid flags march in Jerusalem, which will be held next Monday (May 26), where they start from the streets of west Jerusalem and end in the wall of the occupied Al -Buraq -according to the map scheduled for years, according to the occupation police -.
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Starting from the hours of next Monday, corresponding to May 26, the hundreds of settlers will start arriving to the old town to walk in its alleys, waving Israeli flags, bringing the hemoge of the celebrations at the end of the day with the participation of tens of thousands of them in the march interspersed with repeating anti -Islam slogans, in addition to carrying out the actions of the Arabs and provocation to the residents and merchants of the old town who received the Israeli police every year An order to close their commercial stores to evacuate their responsibility for any damage.
The males start from the settlers in their march from “King George” Street, west of Jerusalem, and they enter the old town from the pillar, while the females start from the front of the cemetery of God, west of the old town, and enter the Old City from the Bab Al -Khalil, passing through the Armenian neighborhood to the Al -Buraq Wall Square, where the largest gathering and central celebration.
Permissibility for the maximum
To this celebration, the most prominent crowd that the temple groups prepared for weeks has been prepared for to storm the Al -Aqsa Mosque collectively and the call to raise the Israeli flags in its squares during the morning and evening hours designated for the storming of the settlers.
Within the most recent methods of the crowd, the Federation of Extraordinary Temple Organizations published an incitement propaganda clip, which included calls from 13 rabbis in which they called on the audience of the religious Zionism stream to storm the mosque in the next Monday, in which the anniversary of the occupation of eastern Jerusalem and its inclusion under Israeli sovereignty.
The Organization of the Temple in our hands called for storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque and raising the Israeli flags in it on the anniversary of the so-called unification of Jerusalem, which falls on Monday 26-20-2025, to emphasize Jewish sovereignty over the entire city of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
This day is a “national feast” to commemorate Israel’s control of … pic.twitter.com/kvt5hvxf0Al -Jazeera Net Jerusalem (@Tel Aviv Tribunequds) May 20, 2025
Close 1684 stores
Merchants in the markets of the old town and the commercial streets surrounding it pay a great price on this occasion, according to the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Jerusalem, Hegazy Al -Rashr, who at the beginning of his speech to Al -Jazeera Net confirmed that Jerusalem turns on the day of “unification of Jerusalem” into a military barracks due to the large number of barriers and football periods, especially at the doors of the old town and inside its lanes and alleys.
Al -Rashish added that the merchants are on the road to the valley, the chain, the Mujahideen, and the Swaika Al -Aoun are the most affected on this day, as the Maronite settlers deliberately destroy the banners and throw the goods shown in front of the shops on the ground, which incurred heavy losses, in addition to placing wooden sticks inside the closed locks of the shops to destroy them, and “and carrying out these attacks in front of the eyes of the police that do not move anyone from The perpetrators.
The settlers participating in the “Dance of the Flags” march not only assault the property of merchants, but they intentionally insult the divine self and the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and repeat racist slogans such as “death for the Arabs” in front of them, and target them with spit and many other provocative behaviors.
According to the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, the police force the traders to close the doors of their shops, and if one of them does not comply with orders, he will be subjected to penalties, such as passing his name to the departments competent to impose taxes for revenge.
“Unfortunately, restrictions are not limited to the walls of the Old City, but rather extend to the external commercial square, such as the Al -Masara Street, Amr bin Al -Aas, Al -Zahra, Sultan Suleiman, Salah al -Din al -Ayyubi and al -Rashid.”
These streets include 664 stores according to the throat, in addition to 1020 stores that still open their doors inside the walls of the Old City.
