(13 Apr 2025)
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Mount of Olives, Jerusalem – 13 April 2025
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1. Wide of thousands of Christians marching and holding palm fronds to celebrate Palm Sunday at Jerusalem’s sacred Mount of Olives, marking the first day of Holy Week
2. Wide of scouts holding flags marching ahead of people
3. SOUNDBITE (English) No name given, Aid worker from the Netherlands:
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“It’s really nice to have such a joyful day, because sometimes it can be a bit heavy to live here with everything that’s going on and the horrible situation right now. So it’s actually nice to see there’s a celebratory moment where people unite, people from all over the world, Palestinians, pilgrims, church members and it was a really wonderful moment to join the procession.”
4. Various mid of people holding palm fronds and marching
5. Wide of Israeli security personnel marching ahead of people
6. Mid of people holding palm fronds and marching
7. Wide of people holding palm fronds and marching
8. Mid of people holding palm fronds and marching
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Father Benoit, Pilgrim from France:
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“I hope that everybody can come and pray here in Jerusalem and Holy Land and may peace on this place come quickly, very quickly.”
10. Wide of people marching
11. Wide of people holding palm fronds and marching
12. Mid of people holding palm fronds and marching
13. Mid of people holding palm fronts and singing
STORYLINE:
Thousands of Christians attended Palm Sunday celebrations at Jerusalem’s sacred Mount of Olives.
Palm Sunday, the first day of the Holy Week, commemorates the Christian belief in the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when he was greeted by cheering crowds waving palm branches that they placed on the ground along his path.
According to the Bible, the procession passed across the Mount of Olives, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem.
The celebrations took place against a backdrop of deadly violence in the Gaza Strip, where more than 20 people were killed in a fresh series of Israeli airstrikes.
One pilgrim said it was “really nice to have such a joyful day” amid the attacks.
“It’s actually nice to see there’s a celebratory moment where people unite, people from all over the world, Palestinians, pilgrims, church members and it was a really wonderful moment to join the procession,” said an aid worker from the Netherlands.
A number of pilgrims attending the ceremony expressed hope that peace would return to the region soon.
The war started when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, during an Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel and took 250 people captive.
Many were eventually freed in ceasefire deals.
Israeli authorities have vowed to pressure Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages.
More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The ministry does not differentiate between combatants and civilians in its count but says more than half of the dead have been women and children.
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