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May 29, 2022 15 tweets 8 min read Read on X
Israeli ultra-nationalist Jewish groups have entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, waving flags and chanting ahead of Sunday’s annual Flag March.

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We take you through a brief tour of Jerusalem, the occupied Eastern part and the entirely Jewish Western part to highlight the disparity in infrastructure and quality of life for Israelis and Palestinians ⤵ interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2018/east-…
Tensions are high after hundreds of far-right Jewish nationalists entered Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ahead of today’s rally, which marks the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem.

Al Jazeera’s Rob Matheson reports the latest on the ground ⤵
Here’s a breakdown of why the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem is a constant point of contention ⤵ aljazeera.com/features/2017/…
Some Jews entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound attempted to pray.

Jewish worship is not permitted in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by Israeli law, and it is also forbidden by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel aje.io/pf9b65
Damascus Gate is a centre of Palestinian cultural life, but Israeli forces regularly attack Palestinians in the plaza. aje.io/wrvpjw
Thousands of Israeli ultra-nationalists with some of them chanting "Death to Arabs," paraded through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in occupied Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday during the so-called flag march.

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Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, said tens of Palestinians have been injured by Israeli forces in and around Nablus.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and PM Mohammed Shtayyeh have condemned the flag march and warned of the dangerous repercussions of the march and its provocations of the feelings of Palestinian citizens.

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The so-called flag march is an expression of the Israeli apartheid regime, Munir Nuseibah, a professor at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, told Al Jazeera.

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"Like all colonial and settler colonial forms of power, Israel seeks to weaken the colonised society that it dominates...all for the sake of separating the people from any form of self-governance and popular sovereignty."

#AJOpinion by @AyyashMark ⤵️ aje.io/fhcp59
Each year, thousands of Israeli far-right groups participate in the ‘March of Flags’, which marks the occupation of East Jerusalem by Israel in 1967 ⤵️

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The Red Crescent has said that its team members dealt with more than 140 injuries in the occupied West Bank.

Around 18 of these injuries were a result of live bullets fired by Israeli forces.

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Thousands of ultra-nationalist Jewish crowds march through Jerusalem’s Old City to celebrate Israel’s illegal occupation of East Jerusalem — in pictures aje.io/eyxy2v
Watch the moment an Israeli man pepper-sprayed an elderly Palestinian woman during a so-called flag march yesterday in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City.

Videos also show another Israeli man pulling out a gun at Damascus Gate ⤵️

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