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Thursday, May 14, 2026
Ahead of Flag March, teens attack journalists in Old City, including ToI reporter
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Ahead of the Jerusalem Day Flag March set to take place later today, religious Zionist youth are already thronging the Old City’s Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem.
Most Palestinian shopkeepers have already left the area. Nevertheless, a group of far-right youth chant, “Death to Arabs,” while dancing in Damascus Gate.
The youth are antagonizing reporters in the area, cursing them, and attempting to cover up their camera lenses.
A horde of teenagers spat on this reporter while trying to steal his phone as he filmed the main route in the Muslim Quarter, succeeding in knocking the device to the ground.
Before the official Jerusalem Day Flag March, religious Zionist youth chant "death to Arabs," try to cover up my phone camera lens.
The Old City is largely empty aside from extremist youth and reporters. Palestinian residents have locked themselves inside their homes pic.twitter.com/LyNYBcG9uA
— charlie summers (@cbsu03) May 14, 2026
The Times of Israel Community.