{"id":795840,"date":"2026-05-14T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795840\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:53:15","slug":"itamar-ben-gvir-declares-ownership-of-temple-mount-as-extremists-clash-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795840\/","title":{"rendered":"Itamar Ben-Gvir declares ownership of Temple Mount as extremists clash in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir ascended the Temple Mount in Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City on Thursday ahead of the planned Jerusalem Day flag march.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Ben-Gvir declared the Temple Mount to be &#8220;in our hands&#8221; amid rising tensions ahead of the flag march, stressing he had &#8220;restored sovereignty on the Temple Mount thanks to determination and deterrence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Earlier on Thursday, Israeli activisits from across the political spectrum clashed in Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City ahead of the flag march.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In one outburst of violence, a group of youths got into an altercation with Old City residents and left-wing activists from the Standing Together movement, including throwing chairs at them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In another case, the left-wing activists were escorted out of the Old City by Israel Police during what the activists referred to as a &#8220;solidarity guard&#8221; meant to provide protection to local Arabs and Palestinians over fears of violence during the march.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The activists, Standing Together added, were there to prevent &#8220;extremist settlers&#8221; from harming Palestinian residents of the old city during the march.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Democrats MK Rabbi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-895941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gilad Kariv<\/a> warned the Israel Police that this year&#8217;s Jerusalem Day flag march poses a serious risk to non-Jewish residents of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Kariv cited recent racist and nationalistic attacks on Christians in recent weeks, along with the long history of the flag march resulting in violence and chaos in the Muslim Quarter, as evidence of the increased risk this year.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir ascended the Temple Mount in Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City on Thursday ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[324730,99,40554,16657,47043,321078,50,114370,258005],"class_list":{"0":"post-795840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-flag-march","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-israel-police","11":"tag-itamar-ben-gvir","12":"tag-jerusalem","13":"tag-jerusalem-day","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-old-city-jerusalem","16":"tag-temple-mount"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116573032344353038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}