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(26 May 2025)
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East Jerusalem - 26 May 2025
1. Israeli ultranationalists marching with flags, chanting
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Frankel, Associated Press:
"I'm seated now in the Old City of Jerusalem in the Muslim quarter where, as you can see behind me, thousands of young Israeli ultranationalists are descending on the city for Jerusalem Day. It's an annual march commemorating for them the reunification of Jerusalem when Israel seized East Jerusalem, the West Bank and religious sites holy to Christians, Muslims and Jews, in the 1967 Mideast War."
3. Various of marchers advancing with police following them
4. Tilt down from Israeli flag in old city alley to marchers
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Frankel, Associated Press:
"Now this is seen by Palestinians as a provocation. I'm in a Palestinian area, as I said, but most of the shops have had to shutter. Police are trying to keep the peace between the few Palestinians that remain in this area and the protesters. I've heard racist slogans chanted - 'Death to Arabs', songs like 'May your village burn'. I'm hearing the protesters banging on the local Palestinian homes. This march today threatens to only inflame tensions in Jerusalem that are already high because of the nearly 600-day war in Gaza."
6. Marchers carrying banner reading (in Hebrew) "Without the Nakba there is no victory" and singing "Whoever believes is not afraid"

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.

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