Chants of 'death to Arabs' at Jerusalem Day march as Ben Gvir flies Israeli flag on Temple Mount

Key Points:

• Tens of thousands of ultra-nationalist Israeli youths marched through Jerusalem's Old City on Jerusalem Day, chanting anti-Arab slogans like “Death to Arabs” and “May your villages burn,” with far-right politicians calling to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild the Jewish Temple.
• National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and fellow far-right MK Yitzhak Kroizer raised the Israeli flag on the Temple Mount, a highly sensitive religious site, with Kroizer calling for the removal of mosques to build the Temple, escalating tensions in the region.
• The march, passing through the Muslim Quarter, saw violent and racist provocations, including harassment of Palestinian shopkeepers and attacks on reporters, while police arrested 13 suspects for altercations during the event.
• Left-wing activists attempting to protect Palestinian residents from far-right violence were forcibly removed by police, who were accused of bias in favor of the nationalist marchers.
• The event concluded with a mass gathering at the Western Wall, while police thwarted a planned terror attack by arresting a suspect in a mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem.