Israel marks second 'Jerusalem Day' under shadow of Gaza war

Israeli police were deploying near the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday ahead of an annual event marking Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem, held this year under the shadow of the war in Gaza.

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Jerusalem Day, or “Yom Yerushalayim” in Hebrew, commemorates what Israel considers the reunification of the city under its authority in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Every year, thousands of Israeli nationalists, many of them religious Jews, march through the streets of Jerusalem and its annexed Old City, including in predominantly Arab neighborhoods, waving Israeli flags, dancing and sometimes shouting inflammatory slogans.