East Jerusalem has long been a flashpoint ... from the ultra-nationalist Lehava group marched towards the Damascus Gate entrance of Jerusalem's Old City - where large numbers of Palestinians ...
People shop on Salah a-Din Road near the Damascus Gate in east Jerusalem (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) The Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are rife with tensions between the locals.
Before that, marchers went their separate ways and thousands of mainly men and teenage boys headed into East Jerusalem. They walked through Damascus Gate, which Israeli forces usually clear of ...