The antiharab and violent postulates Itamar Ben Gvir, have marked the passage of the march of the flags on the day of Jerusalem. “This victory must be taken further and farther … we will go into Gaza and triumph!” The leader has asked this Monday to colonize the Palestine Strip and have expressed his rejection of the decision to allow the distribution of humanitarian aid in the enclave for a week, however scarce it has been, after more than two months of absolute blockade.
“Dear Prime Minister [Benjamín Netanyahu]we should not give them fuel …, he said before the beginning of the march, inflaming those who had already gathered to go to the wax wall, men on the one hand, women on the other, during most of the journey.
Thousands of people later crossed the door of Damascus, which gives access to the old city of Jerusalem, to commemorate the occupation of the eastern Palestinian part of the city, then in Jordanas hands, after the six -day war of 1967. Israel was attached in 1980, of the international community.
The Israeli group of extreme right IM TIRTZU has claimed in the march to carry out an ethnic cleaning in Gaza. In his banner he read “No victory without a Nakba”, disaster in Arabic, name with which the flight or expulsion of their homes of 750,000 Palestinians (two thirds of the Palestinian population of the time) between 1947 and 1949, before the progress of first, the Jewish militias and, later of the newly created army of the Jewish state. The other banner of the extremist group said “1967 – Jerusalem in our hands. 2025 – Gaza in our hands.”
Among the songs of “The people of Israel lives!”, The protesters have launched racist proclamations in the line marked by Ultra Ben Gvir. “A Jew is a soul; an Arab is a son of a bitch!” or “that you burn the village,” some shouted; “Gaza is ours forever,” the message, written in Hebrew, glued at the doors of the Palestinian shops, this Monday closed to lime and song, in the passage from the Damascus door to the wax wall.
“It was read in another of the stickers arranged by the protesters who hit the metal closures of the establishments. Only the ATMs covered with a cardboard that said” This cashier belongs to a Jew, do not damage it “was saved from the anger of the younger attendees.
As every year, the march has been preceded by incidents in the Muslim neighborhood of the old city. Young radical Israeli have harassed, spit, insulted and even attacked to Palestinians who were in place. Activists from an NGO that promotes coexistence between Arabs and Jews, Omdim Beyahad, have acted as a shield to avoid attacks.
