Tensions are high ahead of the contested annual march that last year helped spark an 11-day war
Jerusalem is on edge in advance of a rightwing Israeli parade that will pass through Muslim parts of the Old City, after violence during the same event last year helped spark an 11-day-war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip.
The annual flag march, in which thousands of religious nationalists enter the highly symbolic Damascus Gate and walk through the Muslim Quarter waving Israeli flags, takes place at sunset on what Israel calls Jerusalem Day, the celebration of its capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 war.
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