Israel: “Death to the Arabs” call the flag march in Jerusalem

Thousands of rights of Israeli moved through the old town surrounded by walls on Wednesday at the “flag march” in the occupied East Jerusalem. There was sometimes violence. First of all, they pushed the few Palestinian shopkeepers who had not closed their business before moving, as an eyewitness from the Reuters news agency described. The demonstrators, mostly young settlers from the occupied West Bank, then attacked left Israeli activists and journalists who observed the move. They chanted nationalist slogans and called “Death to the Arabs”, “Your village should burn” and “makes Gaza Platt”.

The Israeli police, who was nearby, did not intervene. She did not respond to an inquiry to the statement, no arrests were known until the late afternoon. A police officer said that the young participants could not be arrested because they were under 18 years old. According to information from the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz”, the “flag march” is financed by the Jerusalem city administration.

According to Palestinian information, some Israeli participants of the controversial flag march have entered the grounds of the headquarters of the UN Palestinian aid unknown unk in the occupied East Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Governement of the Palestinian Authority (PA) said they also called for the occupation of the site.

The UN organization employees were already instructed by Israeli authorities to leave the building at the end of January. Israel accuses the relief organization that some of the employees of Hamas were involved. The Israeli parliament subsequently imposed a ban on work on unnrawa in Israeli territory and banned Israeli civil servants to cooperate with the organization.

The move celebrated the conquest of East Jerusalem by Israel in the 1967 of 1967, which in 1980 followed the annexation contrary to international law. In the past, the participants had targeted Palestinians. Thousands of people took part this year. With blue and white Israeli national flags, they also moved through the narrow streets of the predominantly Arab old town, where many Palestinian shopkeepers had made their business for fear of violent attacks.

The Palestinians see a provocation in the march to undermine their claim to East Jerusalem as the capital of their own state. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed his country’s claim to the city. “We will be united, completely and under Israeli control,” he said at a cabinet meeting that was previously held in East Jerusalem on Monday. The international community sees East Jerusalem as Palestinian territory occupied by Israel. The International Court of Justice said in an expert opinion in 2004. The UN-Sichtheitrat has also repeatedly convicted the occupation of East Jerusalems as violating international law.

Oil into the fire, Israel’s right-wing extremist minister of national security, Itamar Ben Gvir when he visited the site of the Al-Aksa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. “Today, thank God, it is already possible to pray on the Temple Mount,” he said in a video. The place is a long -standing focus between Jews and Muslims and is considered sacred to both religions. After a decades old agreement, the complex is managed by an Islamic foundation from the neighboring country of Jordan. Jews are allowed to visit the place, but do not pray there. The Palestinian Authority and Jordan condemned the minister.