Israelis and Palestinians are preparing for possible unrest ahead of a planned march by Jewish ultranationalists through East Jerusalem that could ignite protests and clashes with police only weeks after an an 11-day Gaza war.
The march poses an early test for Israel’s fragile new government, which was sworn in on Sunday and includes parties from across the political spectrum, including a small Arab party.
Cancelling the march would have opened the prime minister, Naftali Bennett, and other rightwing members of the coalition to intense criticism from those who would view it as a capitulation to Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers.
Hamas has called on Palestinians to “resist” the march.
Mansour Abbas, whose small
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