JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police on Wednesday blocked hundreds of far-right Jewish protesters from marching toward Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, the main entrance to the Old City’s Muslim quarter, amid rising tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Several hundred protesters carrying Israeli flags began marching from a square near Jerusalem’s municipality, according to a Reuters witness, in defiance of police orders and despite condemnation by several Israeli leaders. The organisers said the march was an attempt to “bring back the feeling of safety to the streets of Jerusalem”. Israeli leaders said the march was a “provocation”. A recent upsurge of violence in...
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