Extract from ABC News
Violence has erupted at Israel's annual Jerusalem Day march, with some Jewish Israelis attacking Palestinians and journalists, including an ABC News team, while chanting offensive slogans.
Jerusalem Day marks the Israeli capture of East Jerusalem in 1967 and is celebrated by thousands of far-right Israelis and Jews with a march through the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Extra police and security forces had been deployed in the area amid heightened tensions from the Israel-Gaza war.
Even before the march began, confrontations erupted inside the Old City, with groups of young right-wing Jews attacking Palestinians and journalists.
The ABC News team was pushed and verbally abused, with one member hit in the face and pushed, before police intervened.
Some in the groups shouted slogans that included "Death to Arabs" and "Gaza is a cemetery".
Israeli and Arab journalists were also kicked and attacked and some required medical treatment.
During the march, some of the Israelis also threw bottles and other projectiles at media.
Israel's police say five Israeli suspects were detained.
"We strongly condemn any attempt to harm journalists and media personnel carrying out their duties, as well as any other individuals," a Police spokesperson said.
Other Israelis danced and sang in circles while waving Israeli flags, reciting nationalistic songs about Israel.
The Old City of Jerusalem is a historic walled city which is divided into four uneven quarters named for the four major religions and ethnicities in that area, Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Armenian.
A fifth sector, known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount, contains the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Damascus Gate where Israeli Jews gathered on Wednesday is one of seven current gates into the city and enters into a pathway between the Muslim and Christian quarters and leads to the Jewish quarter.
The city falls on the eastern side of Jerusalem which is divided by the internationally recognised 1967 UN borders, with the west belonging to Israel.
Israel captured East Jerusalem along with the Jordanian-annexed West Bank during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which began on June 5 and lasted six days.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem, which is illegally occupied by Israel according to international law, as the capital of a future Palestinian state and consider Jerusalem Day a provocation.
Palestinian Mohammed Abu Al-Homos who was in the area during the march said he was attacked.
"And now there's the flag march and it's chaos and Palestinians are getting beaten," he said.
"And even me, they beat in the legs in front of the police."
Jerusalem resident Efrat Peterzeig said the land belonged to Israel.
"What occupation? It's ours," she said.
"The Land of Israel was given to the People of Israel, from the Holy One to our forefather Abraham.
"It's ours and everything that happened here is that we let them stay here.
"They really weren't supposed to be here. There is no occupation."
The entire area had been cleared of Palestinians, who were asked to stay inside their homes, and shop keepers instructed to shut their businesses.
Israeli crowds banged on the walls and doors of Palestinian homes and they passed through the Muslim quarter in the Old City.
Israeli rights groups had appealed to the march organisers to change the route of the procession, away from the Muslim quarter, fearing it would further escalate hostilities between Palestinians and Israelis.
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