Fatah urges Palestinians to attack Israelis taking part in the annual Jerusalem Day flag march

Video and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture

Posted text: “#Free_Palestine

#Save_the_Sheikh_Jarrah_neighborhood

#Save_the_Silwan_neighborhood”

Video:

The video shows Arabs demonstrating with Palestinian flags on the Temple Mount.

Narrator: “We will come out as one line to defend our eternal capital [Jerusalem], and we will not allow our holy city to be harmed (refers to rescheduled Israeli flag march, which was cancelled on Jerusalem Day, May 10, 2021, due to violent Arab riots -Ed.). Jerusalem is the rock of our existence, and for its sake we [will] pay any price… We will redeem it with our souls and with all that we have. They will definitely not pass (refers to the march -Ed.), as the men of Jerusalem are waiting for them.”

The mention of “harm to Jerusalem” refers to an Israeli flag march, which was rescheduled for June 17, 2021. The original march was cancelled on Jerusalem Day, May 10, 2021, due to violent Arab riots.

The Sheikh Jarrah protests – Israeli courts have ruled that four Palestinian families living in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem are to be evicted because they are living illegally in properties owned by Jews who were expelled in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. The Palestinian residents were offered to stay if they would pay rent, but they refused and instead appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court. In April 2021 the planned eviction led to clashes between Palestinian residents and Israeli police, which continued into May and served as one of the pretexts for further violent rioting during the Fatah/Hamas Riot and Rocket War 2021. A hearing scheduled by the Supreme Court for May 10, 2021, was postponed following intensified Palestinian riots and unrest both in Sheikh Jarrah and in East Jerusalem in general.