Israeli ‘Flag March’ Throws Jerusalem Into Serious Tension
May 29, 2022
4:51 pm
Sunday saw Jerusalem being thrown into a state of trepidation as some Palestinian groups have threatened to retaliate over the annual rally that sparked a war last year.
Israel deployed 3,000 police on the day that marks its 1967 capture of east Jerusalem, home of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound located on what Jews revere as the Temple Mount.
Flag-waving Jewish nationalists chanting pro-Israel slogans, among them a far-right lawmaker, in the morning visited Al-Aqsa, where Israeli police said several Palestinians threw rocks toward the officers. Isolated clashes also broke out at the Old City’s Damascus Gate where dozens of Jewish …
