3,000 police deployed amid fears contested annual march could spark fresh violence
The annual flag march, in which thousands of religious nationalists enter the highly symbolic Damascus Gate and walk through the Muslim Quarter waving Israeli flags, takes place at sunset on whatIt is often accompanied by racist chants and violence and viewed as deeply provocative by the Palestinians.
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