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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Beatings and arrests ahead of far-right Israeli 'Flag March' in Jerusalem's Old City</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By Shady Giorgio - June 15, 2021</div></div>
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<div><p>Israeli police beat and arrested Palestinians on
Tuesday, after closing Damascus Gate to make way for Israelis gathering
for the start of a provocative nationalist march through occupied East
Jerusalem's Old City.</p>
<p>The so-called Flag March was held on Tuesday after being cancelled
during a period when repeated Israeli crackdowns in al-Aqsa Mosque and
the threatened expulsion of Palestinian families was causing uproar in
Jerusalem.</p>
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<p>That tension led to last month's 11-day deadly Israeli offensive on Gaza.</p>
<p>Having closed off certain roads and Damascus Gate, Israeli police
arrested Palestinians in Jerusalem ahead of the march. Videos posted on <a href="https://twitter.com/tombateman/status/1404787570303700993" target="_blank">Twitter</a> showed Israeli officers beating a Palestinian on the steps by Damascus Gate.</p>
<p><span lang="en"><span><span>The Red Crescent said 27 people were wounded during confrontations with Israeli authorities around the Old City, including </span></span><span><span>three from rubber-coated steel bullets, one from</span></span><span><span> being </span></span><span><span>beaten and one who had been hit by part of a</span></span><span><span> </span></span><span><span>sound grenade.</span></span><span><span> </span></span><span><span>Two people were hospitalised.</span></span></span></p>
<p>Authorities beat vendors working in shops near Damascus Gate, and
pushed them away from the Old City. The area around the gate was sealed
off by early afternoon on Tuesday, except for members of the press, with
several barricades set up to clear the way for the settlers' march.</p>
<h3>Chants of 'Death to Arabs'</h3>
<p>More than a thousand Israelis waving national flags gathered at the
basin of Damascus Gate at the start of the march, singing anthems of the
Jewish state's settler movement.</p>
<p>Videos posted on social media showed Israelis waving flags and chanting <a href="https://twitter.com/nirhasson/status/1404845127860903938" target="_blank">"Death to Arabs"</a>.</p>
<p>Some hoisted far-right lawmaker and Benjamin Netanyahu ally Itamar
Ben-Gvir, and Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the far-right Religious
Zionism faction, on their shoulders.</p>
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<p><img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Image%20from%20iOS_5.jpg" alt="Right-wing politicians Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich at Tuesday's march (MEE/Supplied)" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="445" height="317"></p>
Right-wing politicians Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich at Tuesday's march (MEE/Supplied)</div>
<p>Israeli authorities raised the alert level in the country
ahead of the march, with additional police and military forces set to be
deployed near the besieged Gaza Strip and in towns in Israel with mixed
populations of Jewish and Palestinian citizens.</p>
<p>By Tuesday afternoon, a small number of incendiary balloons had been
sent from Gaza into Israel, with 20 fires reported along the Gaza
border.</p>
<p>Israeli authorities also diverted flights towards the "Northern
Route" in and out of Israel, in anticipation of a possible escalation in
Gaza.</p>
<p>The march ran along the Old City's wall from Damascus Gate to Jaffa Gate, before heading towards the Western Wall.</p>
<p>Palestinian counter-protests took place in Jerusalem and in towns in
Israel with significant numbers of Palestinians, with some Palestinian
groups calling for a "day of rage" denouncing the far-right march.</p>
<p>In Gaza City, some demonstrators burned pictures of former Netanyahu
as well as his recent successor, pro-settlement Jewish nationalist and
tech millionaire Naftali Bennett.</p>
<h3>New government's first test</h3>
<p>The Flag March is usually held on the occasion of Jerusalem Day,
which marks Israel’s capture and subsequent occupation of East Jerusalem
in the 1967 Middle East war.</p>
<p>The march typically brings together thousands of young, far-right
religious Israelis, who chant anti-Palestinian slogans and wave Israeli
flags as they pass through the small streets of East Jerusalem's Old
City.</p>
<p>Initially scheduled for 10 May, the route of the Flag March had been diverted away from the flashpoint of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-israel-jerusalem-damascus-gate-symbolic-tensions" target="_blank">Damascus Gate</a> amid Palestinian protests against the planned forcible removal of Palestinians from the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-sheikh-jarrah-judaise-jerusalem" target="_blank">Sheikh Jarrah</a> neighbourhood, and Israeli forces' violent raids at<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-aqsa-attacks-how-violence-unfolded" target="_blank"> al-Aqsa Mosque</a>.</p>
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<p><img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Image%20from%20iOS_4.jpg?itok=62s8YZSe" alt="A police barricade set up in from of Jerusalem's Damascus gate on 15 June, 2021. (MEE/Shady Giorgio)" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="250" height="445"></p>
A police barricade set up in front of Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on 15 June 2021 (MEE/Shady Giorgio)</div>
<p>The march was called off that day, as sirens went off after
Hamas fired four rockets from Gaza towards Jerusalem when Israel
ignored <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-aqsa-jerusalem-hamas-fires-rockets-sirens" target="_blank">its ultimatum</a> calling on Israeli forces to withdraw from al-Aqsa.</p>
<p>Over <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-gaza-west-bank-palestinians-israelis-killed-names" target="_blank">the following 11 days</a>, Israeli forces and Hamas engaged in a war that would leave 248 people in Gaza dead and 13 in Israel.</p>
<p>The procession was later rescheduled for 10 June, but once again
postponed after Hamas warned of renewed hostilities should it proceed.</p>
<p>The new date for the march was set on 8 June by the cabinet of
then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was voted out by Israel’s
parliament on Sunday after 12 years as premier.</p>
<p>The Flag March will be the first test for Bennett’s fragile coalition
government, cobbled together by the secular centrist Yair Lapid, a
former TV presenter, and including eight parties, ranging from Bennett's
far-right Yamina Party to left-wing Labor and an Islamist party
representing Palestinian citizens of Israel.</p>
<p>While Bennett is a prominent member of Israel’s far-right, Netanyahu
has labelled the new cabinet as a "dangerous" “left-wing” government,
and accused it of being "the greatest election fraud in the history" of
Israel.</p>
<h3>'A provocation against our people'</h3>
<p>Jewish supremacists, including Israeli MP <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-elections-jewish-power-itamar-ben-gvir-kach-kahane" target="_blank">Itamar Ben-Gvir</a>, have meanwhile vowed to participate in the march regardless of what the new government - or Palestinians - might say.</p>
<p>"I will arrive today to participate in the flag parade and I will fly the Israeli flag," he wrote <a href="https://twitter.com/itamarbengvir/status/1404751551487414278" target="_blank">on Twitter</a> on Tuesday morning." We do not need permission from Hamas or the Islamic Jihad to march in the capital of Israel."</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-new-government-unnatural-netanyahu-keep-together" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/2021-05-30T060545Z_20947354_RC26QN9YRRP7_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-POLITICS%20%281%29.jpg?itok=ufO_4TyP" alt="" width="400" height="250"></a></p><p>Israel's incoming government is so unnatural only Netanyahu can keep it together</p>
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<p>Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the
march as "a provocation and aggression against our people, Jerusalem and
its sanctities that must end".</p>
<p>"We warn of the dangerous repercussions that may result from the
occupying power's intention to allow extremist Israeli settlers to carry
out the Flag March in occupied Jerusalem tomorrow," Shtayyeh <a href="https://twitter.com/DrShtayyeh/status/1404512163956498433" target="_blank">tweeted</a> on Monday.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jerusalem-death-to-arabs-far-right-anti-palestinian-march" target="_blank">In April</a>,
Israeli settlers had already marched in the streets of Jerusalem’s Old
City chanting "Death to Arabs," sparking clashes between Palestinians
and Israeli military police, who barred the former from sitting in the
Damascus Gate plaza.</p>
<p>UN Middle East peace envoy Tor Wennesland <a href="https://twitter.com/TWennesland/status/1404555018263478273" target="_blank">called on</a> "all relevant parties to act responsibly and avoid any provocations that could lead to another round of confrontation."</p>
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arresting a young man within the Israeli campaign against native
Palestinians to allow a settlers' mass raid. [Credit: al Qastal]
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<p>June 15, 2021 - <font size="1"><a href="https://qudsnen.co/?p=26056">https://qudsnen.co/?p=26056</a></font></p><p>Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- The Red Crescent said that the number of
native Palestinians injures d in the Israeli attacks in Jerusalem rose
to 27. Four of the injuries have been taken to hospitals. </p>
<p>Israeli forces deployed in the holy city and attacked Palestinians, while on the other side protected settlers. </p>
<p>Israeli Jewish fanatics spread in the holy city, holding Israeli
flags and chanting racist slogans. The slogans included incites against
Palestinians and Arabs and insults against the Prophet of Islam,
Muhammad peace be upon him. </p>
<p>Israeli forces attacked journalists in Bab Al Amoud, trying to prevent them from covering the Israeli provocations. </p></div>
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