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27-05-2025
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Palestinians clean up after Israeli nationalist march in Jerusalem
Palestinian traders in Jerusalem's Old City returned to their shops on Tuesday to clean up a day after a march by Israeli nationalists that saw scuffles, insults and acts of vandalism. Some had to use crowbars, hammers and wirecutters to regain access to their own shops after many were vandalised during the Jerusalem Day march the day before. Jerusalem Day commemorates Israeli forces taking east Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. On Tuesday, metal shutters protecting the shopfronts bore the marks of the parade's passing, with padlocks blocked and stickers slapped upon them. "No humanitarian aid for Gaza," read one sticker from Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power). The far-right party headed by firebrand politician and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir had a major presence in Monday's march. Ben Gvir visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, during the Jerusalem Day events. Israel considers all of Jerusalem, including the annexed Palestinian-majority east, its indivisible capital. The international community does not recognise this, and Palestinians see east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state. On Tuesday, when employees of an east Jerusalem electricity supplier arrived at their office they discovered the front windows broken and the door blocked. - 'Childish acts' - A company official, Ismail Eshqart, came from headquarters to change the lock and assess the damage. He told AFP they had expected "a little more tension" than usual this year in the alley in the Muslim Quarter where Palestinians and a few Israeli residents, mostly religious Jews, mingle daily. He said there had been "deliberate acts of vandalism", but he did not name the suspected perpetrators. "It's the same story every year," said clothes seller Abu Osama, referring to Jerusalem Day marchers. "They come and attack shops, make them close, and they break things, they throw firecrackers," he told AFP as a municipal employee arrived with an electric saw to cut the padlock on the door of his sabotaged shop. "They do what they want and nobody says to them 'what are you doing? That's not allowed'!" Abu Osama added, angry at lost time over "childish acts" that made him open several hours late. Fruit sellers at stalls in front of the Damascus Gate into the Old City shared his dismay, but shrugged as they unloaded boxes of cherries and peaches. "The situation is worse and worse," said grandmother Umm Mohammed who was born in the Old City and had come to do her shopping. - 'It's crazy!' - "We want to live in peace -- we are kind people," she said, adding that she did not leave the house on Monday. Umm Mohammed said that last year, one man she knows "came out of his house and they hit him -- and he is a big guy!" Armed with solvent and sponges, a group of around 10 Israeli and foreign volunteers arrived on Tuesday morning to help clean up in the march's aftermath. "I came to do what I could, even if it's not much," said one volunteer who asked not to be identified. They scuttled between the shops, trying to avoid police patrols, but several were briefly stopped for allegedly disturbing the peace. Contacted by AFP, police did not respond to a request for comment. "It's really upside down. It's crazy," said 24-year-old Joshua Korn of the Israeli-Palestinian activist group Standing Together. "It's crazy because these people who are here to protect us... they shout at us that we're provoking... just because we're here to remove racist graffiti and stickers that have been put up by settlers in an act of provocation!" Korn said of the police. lsb-crb-agh/mib/srm/ser
France 24
27-05-2025
- Politics
- France 24
Palestinians clean up after Israeli nationalist march in Jerusalem
Some had to use crowbars, hammers and wirecutters to regain access to their own shops after many were vandalised during the Jerusalem Day march the day before. Jerusalem Day commemorates Israeli forces taking east Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. On Tuesday, metal shutters protecting the shopfronts bore the marks of the parade's passing, with padlocks blocked and stickers slapped upon them. "No humanitarian aid for Gaza," read one sticker from Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power). The far-right party headed by firebrand politician and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir had a major presence in Monday's march. Ben Gvir visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, during the Jerusalem Day events. Israel considers all of Jerusalem, including the annexed Palestinian-majority east, its indivisible capital. The international community does not recognise this, and Palestinians see east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state. On Tuesday, when employees of an east Jerusalem electricity supplier arrived at their office they discovered the front windows broken and the door blocked. 'Childish acts' A company official, Ismail Eshqart, came from headquarters to change the lock and assess the damage. He told AFP they had expected "a little more tension" than usual this year in the alley in the Muslim Quarter where Palestinians and a few Israeli residents, mostly religious Jews, mingle daily. He said there had been "deliberate acts of vandalism", but he did not name the suspected perpetrators. "It's the same story every year," said clothes seller Abu Osama, referring to Jerusalem Day marchers. "They come and attack shops, make them close, and they break things, they throw firecrackers," he told AFP as a municipal employee arrived with an electric saw to cut the padlock on the door of his sabotaged shop. "They do what they want and nobody says to them 'what are you doing? That's not allowed'!" Abu Osama added, angry at lost time over "childish acts" that made him open several hours late. Fruit sellers at stalls in front of the Damascus Gate into the Old City shared his dismay, but shrugged as they unloaded boxes of cherries and peaches. "The situation is worse and worse," said grandmother Umm Mohammed who was born in the Old City and had come to do her shopping. 'It's crazy!' "We want to live in peace -- we are kind people," she said, adding that she did not leave the house on Monday. Umm Mohammed said that last year, one man she knows "came out of his house and they hit him -- and he is a big guy!" Armed with solvent and sponges, a group of around 10 Israeli and foreign volunteers arrived on Tuesday morning to help clean up in the march's aftermath. "I came to do what I could, even if it's not much," said one volunteer who asked not to be identified. They scuttled between the shops, trying to avoid police patrols, but several were briefly stopped for allegedly disturbing the peace. Contacted by AFP, police did not respond to a request for comment. "It's really upside down. It's crazy," said 24-year-old Joshua Korn of the Israeli-Palestinian activist group Standing Together. "It's crazy because these people who are here to protect us... they shout at us that we're provoking... just because we're here to remove racist graffiti and stickers that have been put up by settlers in an act of provocation!" Korn said of the police. © 2025 AFP
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Politics
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Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day on Monday. Chants of "death to Arabs" and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Violence broke out as ultranationalist Jews streamed into Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's walled Old City. Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said the event had become a festival of "hatred and racism", adding it was "a disgrace and an insult to Judaism". Israeli police were deployed as violence broke out in the walled Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem shortly after midday. Thousands of nationalist Israelis descended to Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances. Right-wing activists held banners that read "67 - Jerusalem in our hands; 2025 - Gaza in our hands". Arab traders in the Muslim Quarter who had yet to close their shops were harassed by young Israeli men, witnesses said. Chants of "May your village burn" and "Your home will be ours" were heard throughout the march. Aggressive marchers were detained and removed from the Old City by Israeli police. National security minister Itamar Ben Gvir, of the Jewish Power party, called for the death penalty for "terrorists" in an address to the crowds. Gvir also visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam and known by Jews as the Temple Mount. Jews revere it as the location of two Biblical Temples and it is the holiest site in Judaism. The compound is administered by a Jordanian Islamic trust. Jews are allowed to visit but not pray there. A spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, based in the West Bank, condemned the march and Ben Gvir's visit to Al-Aqsa. Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, "repeated incursions into the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and provocative acts such as raising the Israeli flag in occupied Jerusalem threaten the stability of the entire region," Nabil Abu Rudeineh said in a statement. In a cabinet meeting on Monday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep Jerusalem "united, whole, and under Israeli sovereignty". Left-wing opposition leader Yair Golan described images of violence in the Old City as "shocking". "This is what hatred, racism and bullying look like," he said in a statement on X. "We will fight for Jerusalem for all of us, Jews, Christians and Muslims, secular and religious. "Jerusalem belongs to all those who love her. We will fight for her and restore her as a city for us all." Lapid, another opposition leader, added: "There is nothing Jewish about this violence. The government ministers who remain silent in the face of these events are complicit in this disgrace." Every year thousands of Israelis march a route through Jerusalem and the annexed Old City, ending at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray in Jerusalem. On Sunday, a large Israeli flag was unfurled at the Western Wall plaza. The parade mark Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and the "unification" of a city that the Israeli government says is their eternal capital. Palestinians also want Jerusalem as their future capital and much of the international community regards East Jerusalem as Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory. This year's Flag March again coincided with the war in Gaza and escalating Israeli military operations against Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas's cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. Fifty-seven are still being held, about 20 of whom are assumed to be alive. At least 53,939 people, including at least 16,500 children, have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's health ministry. Young girl escapes burning Gaza school after Israeli attack
BBC News
26-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem
Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day on of "death to Arabs" and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli broke out as ultranationalist Jews streamed into Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's walled Old Leader Yair Lapid said the event had become a festival of "hatred and racism", adding it was "a disgrace and an insult to Judaism". Israeli police were deployed as violence broke out in the walled Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem shortly after of nationalist Israelis descended to Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances. Right-wing activists held banners that read "67 - Jerusalem in our hands; 2025 - Gaza in our hands."Arab traders in the Muslim Quarter who had yet to close their shops were harassed by young Israeli men, witnesses said. Chants of "May your village burn" and "Your home will be ours" were heard throughout the march. Aggressive marchers were detained and removed from the Old City by Israeli police. National security minister Itamar Ben Gvir, of the Jewish Power party, called for the death penalty for "terrorists" in an address to the also visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam and known by Jews as the Temple Mount. Jews revere it as the location of two Biblical Temples and it is the holiest site in compound is administered by a Jordanian Islamic trust. Jews are allowed to visit but not pray there.A spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, based in the West Bank, condemned the march and Ben Gvir's visit to ongoing war in Gaza, "repeated incursions into the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and provocative acts such as raising the Israeli flag in occupied Jerusalem threaten the stability of the entire region," Nabil Abu Rudeineh said in a a cabinet meeting on Monday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep Jerusalem "united, whole, and under Israeli sovereignty". Left-wing opposition leader Yair Golan described images of violence in the Old City as "shocking"."This is what hatred, racism and bullying look like," he said in a statement on X. "We will fight for Jerusalem for all of us, Jews, Christians and Muslims, secular and religious."Jerusalem belongs to all those who love her. We will fight for her and restore her as a city for us all."Lapid, another opposition leader, added: "There is nothing Jewish about this violence. The government ministers who remain silent in the face of these events are complicit in this disgrace."Every year thousands of Israelis march a route through Jerusalem and the annexed Old City, ending at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray in Jerusalem. On Sunday, a large Israeli flag was unfurled at the Western Wall parade mark Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and the "unification" of a city that the Israeli government says is their eternal also want Jerusalem as their future capital and much of the international community regards East Jerusalem as Israeli-occupied Palestinian year's Flag March again coincided with the war in Gaza and escalating Israeli military operations against Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas's cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. Fifty-seven are still being held, about 20 of whom are assumed to be least 53,939 people, including at least 16,500 children, have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's health ministry.
Hindustan Times
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
What happened at Crown Heights? Brooklyn woman chased, attacked by hundreds of men after protest at Chabad Lubavit HQ
A Brroklyn woman has alleged that a mob of Orthodox Jewish men chased her, kicked her, spat at her and threw objects at her after mistaking her as a participant in a protest against Israel's far-right security minister. The assault was recorded by a bystander near the global headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights on Thursday, April 24. Clashes took place between pro-Palestinian activists and members of the neighbourhood's Orthodox Jewish community following an appearance by Itamar Ben-Gvir. This protest was one of many other similar protests against Ben-Gvir held in recent days. The ultranationalist settler leader is reportedly embarking on his first US state visit since joining Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet three years ago. He was convicted in Israel in the past of racist incitement and support for a terrorist group. He has urged his supporters to confront Palestinians and assert 'Jewish Power.' The victim of last week's assault, in her 30s, is a resident of the neighbourhood. She told the Associated Press that she got to know about the protest after she heard police helicopters over her apartment, and walked over to see what was happening. It was around 10.30 pm and most of the crowd had already dispersed. The victim said she covered her face with a scarf as she did not wish to be filmed. 'As soon as I pulled up my scarf, a group of 100 men came over immediately and encircled me,' said the woman. 'They were shouting at me, threatening to rape me, chanting 'death to Arabs'. I thought the police would protect me from the mob, but they did nothing to intervene.' One police officer tried to escort the woman to safety as the chats grew, but hundreds of men and boys kept following them, jeering in Hebrew and English. Two of the men kicked the woman in the back, and another threw a traffic cone at her head. A fourth man pushed a trash can into her. 'This is America,' one of the men can be heard saying in a video shared online. 'We got Israel. We got an army now.' At one point, the woman and the cop were almost cornered against a building. 'I felt sheer terror,' the woman said. 'I realized at that point that I couldn't lead this mob of men to my home. I had nowhere to go. I didn't know what to do. I was just terrified.' The woman and the officer walked several blocks before the cops hustled her into a police vehicle. One man yelled, 'Get her!' before the crowd cheered as she was driven away. The woman, who has been a New Yorker all her life, said she was left with bruises and was traumatised after the incident. She stressed that the episode should be investigated as an act of hate. 'I'm afraid to move around the neighborhood where I've lived for a decade,' she said. 'It doesn't seem like anyone in any position of power really cares.' A police spokesperson later confirmed that one person was arrested and five others were issued summons after the demonstration, The Guardian reported. However, they did not reveal if anyone was charged in connection to the woman's assault. Mayor Eric Adams later said that police were investigating 'a series of incidents stemming from clashing protests on Thursday that began when a group of anti-Israel protesters surrounded the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters – a Jewish house of worship – in Brooklyn.' He added that cops had spoken to a different woman on the pro-Palestinian side of the protest, who was allegedly harassed by counter-protesters and was left injured. 'Let me be clear: none of this is acceptable, in fact, it is despicable,' Adams said. 'New York City will always be a place where people can peacefully protest, but we will not tolerate violence, trespassing, menacing, or threatening.'
