Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem

Israeli opposition leaders condemned attacks on Palestinians as "racist" and a disgrace to Judaism.
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Chants of "death to Arabs" and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Violence broke out as ultranationalist Jews streamed into Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's walled Old City.
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said the event had become a festival of "hatred and racism", adding it was "a disgrace and an insult to Judaism".
Israeli police were deployed as violence broke out in the walled Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem shortly after midday.
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