(5 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem – 5 June 2024
1. Israeli marchers, some with Israeli flags, arriving
2. Marchers dancing near Old City
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Esti Levanon, marcher:
"We celebrate the freedom of Jerusalem. On this day 57 years ago, we freed the Holy city, the old city, back to our hands from the Jordanians. We love Jerusalem, we want to show that we don’t forget her. We are here almost every week but we are here today with our children and family, young and old. We want to tell everyone that this is our holy city. We want it to be only ours. We love it, we don’t see any problem to march here. So everyone is welcome Jewish and non-Jewish, have a great holiday."
4. Women arriving
5. Various of marchers, some with Israeli flags arriving
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarit Avivi-Poryes, marcher:
"It’s Jerusalem Day. It’s a day where Jerusalem is set free and we’re here to celebrate."
7. People arriving
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbra Hurwitz, marcher:
"I’m here today celebrating Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem day in Hebrew) when we captured Yerushalayim (Jerusalem in Hebrew) in 1967 and Yerushalayim was in our hands again and we’re celebrating that we have this beautiful city."
9. Various of people drumming and singing "Jerusalem of Gold"
10. People singing in Hebrew "The most important is not to be afraid at all"
STORYLINE:
Thousands of mostly ultranationalist Israelis took part in an annual march through a dense Palestinian neighborhood of Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday.
It’s an event that often sees racist chants and brawls.
Jerusalem, the emotional heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been mostly calm throughout the Israel-Hamas war.
But the annual march, seen as provocative by Palestinians, could ignite broader unrest, as it did three years ago, when it helped set off an 11-day war in Gaza.
Marchers convening outside the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s historic Old City, a central gathering place for Palestinians in east Jerusalem, chanted anti-Arab and anti-Islamic slogans, danced and waved Israeli flags as the procession kicked off.
The annual 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.
AP video shot by Ami Bentov
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