JERUSALEM – Competing claims to the holy city of Jerusalem have long fueled fighting between Israel and the Palestinians.
But a new mix of players, including Gaza militants and Jewish Israeli extremists, have made the latest round of violence particularly combustible.
The unrest has been characterized by nightly clashes between Palestinian youths and Jerusalem police outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City.
Over the weekend, anti-Arab Israeli extremists, apparently emboldened by the election of their allies to parliament, entered the fray with a march calling for violence against Arabs.