{"id":85335,"date":"2026-05-14T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/bbc-on-the-ground-during-march-through-jerusalems-old-city\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:51:00","slug":"bbc-on-the-ground-during-march-through-jerusalems-old-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=85335","title":{"rendered":"BBC on the ground during march through Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Tens of thousands of Israeli celebrants have marched through Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City, captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem is not recognised by many of its allies, including the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The annual march is frequently accompanied by racist chants and violence towards Palestinian residents and businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The BBC&#8217;s Middle east correspondent Lucy Williamson spent the day on the ground observing the commemorations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cdxp0143q0po?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of Israeli celebrants have marched through Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City, captured by Israel in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1683,442,548,9905,3925],"class_list":["post-85335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-bbc","tag-city","tag-ground","tag-jerusalems","tag-march"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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