Movies circulating on social media confirmed activists being shoved and surrounded by teams of youths sporting matching white T-shirts emblazoned with Jerusalem-themed slogans.
In a single video, the youths hurled plastic chairs at a Palestinian shopkeeper whereas chanting “Arab sons of whores”.
The shopkeeper appeared to throw one chair again earlier than elevating a stick in warning.
SHOW OF SOLIDARITY
Some folks clapped rhythmically, whereas others pounded on the steel shutters of closed Palestinian retailers.
Authorities typically order Palestinian retailers within the Previous Metropolis to close for the march, which ends on the Western Wall – the final remnant of the Second Temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, the holiest web site the place Jews are allowed to hope.
Earlier within the day, on the steps exterior Damascus Gate – one of many most important entrances to the Previous Metropolis – dozens of Israeli peace activists wearing white handed flowers to passersby, as if apologising prematurely for what was to come back, the correspondent reported.
Ilan Perez, 52, mentioned he wished to “present my sympathy and love with flowers”, which he clutched in his fingers.
“It was necessary for me to come back in an effort to present some solidarity with the area people and say that as a Jew, as a Zionist, as somebody who desires a Jewish state right here, I would like them to be a part of it and be a part of the nation with equal rights,” mentioned Perez, who works within the tech business and had come from the town of Raanana, close to Tel Aviv.
