♪ anchor: time for a quick check of the headlines. you leaders have agreed to impose a partial ban on russian oil. more than two thirds will be banned by the end of the year. the breakthrough follows months of negotiations. france has called for an investigation into the death of a french journalist killed in ukraine. officials say he was killed when schelling hit a vehicle.

china's foreign has been unable to secure an economic packed with several island nations. the tour has u.s. allies concerned about beijing's military and financial ambitions. those were the headlines. the news continues on al jazeera after inside story. before that we leave you with the voice of palestine. al jazeera continues to demand a rapid and transparent investigation into the killing of a journalist in the west bank. she was shot in the head by israeli forces while on assignment. ♪ >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language]

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♪ anchor: can the status quo in jerusalem be preserved? the long-standing agreement banned jews from playing at the mosque, but nationalist groups want that's a change and are getting more political support. why is the issue so contentious? this is the inside story. hello and welcome to the program. tens of thousands of ultra-national israelis have marched through occupied east jerusalem, latest provocation

against palestinians. every year, far right groups hold what they call a flag day march. some are calling it an incursion. some jewish worshipers prayed, violating a long-standing agreement preventing non-muslims from holding religious rituals there. the palestinian prime minister that announced what he called aggression. incursions have become increasingly common. reporter: flags wave. for israel, his victory. for palestinians, it's occupation. in recent years, groups have

used the flag march to push their own agenda. i minority group used for the march to call for the expulsion from all palestinians and for the dismantling of the dome of the rock. this year, public security ministers allow the march to travel through damascus gate. hamas is monitoring the situation. >> [speaking foreign language] we think it's a big catastrophe. reporter: last year, the march combined with the worst expulsions of palestinians

sparked the 11 day wore on gaza. an independent political consultant says allowing the march to enter the area is dangerous. >> for israelis to fly the flag anywhere in jerusalem makes a statement. israeli sovereignty was demonstrated there by the israeli army and police and is deciding who can march, what flag can be flown by which people. that is a boiling point. reporter: palestinians clashed with police. clashes took place across the occupied west bank where the israeli army used live fire and teargas. the martyrs have dictated to the

israeli police how they are going to come into damascus gate. they have opened up another route. there were only a few israeli police here. reporter: this young generation believe that completely, and these people are the ones backing the israeli government. as long as that is the case, they have allowed voice at the heart of the israeli government.

anchor: israel controls external security. only muslims are allowed to pray in the mosque while jews can pray outside at the western wall. non-muslims can visit under supervision. palestinians are concerned the muslim identity is under threat by ultra-right wing religious troops entering and attempting to pray there illegally. let's bring in our guests. the palestinian physician activists. secretary-general of the palestinian national initiative and a former information minister. in tel aviv, and author and writer. in cambridge, a professor of

journalism. thank you for joining us. is the status quo being eroded and what does that mean? >> it is eroded viciously. according to the existing agreements, the israeli army has no rights. they have taken away that responsibility. more than that, they have allowed what is not allowed, which is certain jewish people to enter, prayers in the mosque which is a serious violation.

they have israeli flags. they did that for several minutes. we had 200 people injured severely. one of them died. this is a serious erosion of the existing agreement and it is an attack, but most important, it's an attack on the rights of palestinian people. anchor: i like to crossover. he says the status quo remains, israel is committed. this is a divided knesset.

how much support is there for keeping the status quo, changing it, is it a matter of adequate security to ensure the agreement is upheld, or is there a willful movement to change the status quo? >> there is one place in jerusalem which is more fragile and unstable than the temple mount, and this is the chair of prime minister bennett. everything is part of the instability of the government. there is no question israel is violating the status quo. jews were allowed to go there to pray. the fact of the matter is, there

is no price tag. not in middle east currency, diplomatic currency. we don't see any gulf country calling the ambassador back, the jordanian flag taken down. the voices from washington are quite mild. when the balances between the stability of the government and the coalition, the voices that are coming from his own party that are protesting the status quo, challenging the status quo, he has to pay lip service that they respect the status quo because we have interests in the gulf, jordan, but we do not have interests in ramallah or east jerusalem, but the status quo.

the status quo on the temple mount is an oxymoron with the status quo in peace negotiations that are going nowhere. anchor: corrosion of the status of. what has led to this? >> it's the convergence of several trends and is almost going faster now with the vulnerable israeli government. the increase in right wing settlers, ethnic purity, sentiment that the israelis claim to all of the land from the river to the sea, the second trend is the total weakness of

palestinian leadership, lack of any serious leadership in jerusalem, the third element is the lack of any external accountability of the arabs and none of them are holding israel accountable. it's not just the status quo. everyone has a limited focus on the temple mount, and that is the most sensitive part of the most sensitive district, the most sensitive city. israelis are strengthening control over all of jerusalem by

expelling people, intimidating people, taking over land. annexing areas. this has to be seen as part of an older process that goes back 100 years and has been accelerated because of the reasons i mentioned. it's only resistance available. anchor: i would like to pick up on one point. the weakness of palestinian leadership. is palestinian system kiddies changes weakening? >> the authority is weak but people are not weak. popular nonviolent resistance, the israeli army, we have seen

provocations. this is unlawful. we have seen a serious violation what we also saw news how deep and profound the system of apartheid is, when you allow israelis to carry thousands of flags, that is a discrimination. that is much worse than south

africa. let me say what we have seen. the aggressive behavior of the illegal settlers, but was nothing but fascist behavior. it was extreme, it was dangerous. then palestinians have nothing to defend themselves, while these arm settlers arrested any palestinian who try to defend themselves. anchor: i want to talk to you about the flag day march. we have heard about calls for the expulsion of palestinians, publicly calling for the dismantling of the dome of the rock. are these once fringe views now coming more into the mainstream?

>> actually, it's not the first time. in the 1980's, members of the jewish underground were arrested before they exercised their plan to bomb the mosques. i'm afraid it's not a matter of will, it's a matter of ability. there are people who are being interviewed and talk about it openly, it's time to get rid of the mosque and to build the third temple. the other thing is we give this government which is completely

-- if netanyahu was prime minister, the israeli left and international community would be all over him. since we are so happy we have him as foreign minister, because what we hear when the israeli public is intimidated from hamas who is warning to shoot rockets on israel and intimidated by netanyahu who is provoking this government by inciting the people against this government.

on the other hand, i see the weakness of the palestinian authority, because they are detractors of this government, i interviewed a professor a few years ago he said iis time to run for mayor, and he says he is considering. what we see in israel is the palestinians are about 40% of the residents of jerusalem and could form a coalition and build mosques wherever they want and stop building settlements in east jerusalem. but, they don't do this. anchor: i want to pausing. >> [indiscernible]

naftali bennett was a leader of settlers, he was the director of the regional counselor of settlements, he is an extreme right winger. the same applies to the palestinian. newspeople have to bring down this government, more important you don't want a resolution, let's have one democratic state with equal rights, not melissa pahlavi.

-- it's exclusive to the jewish people. this is the reality of democracy, and not only be exclusive to elections in jerusalem. that would mean we palestinians are accepting not only occupation but the rules of the system of apartheid. anchor: talk about the repercussions for israel failing to up hold the agreed status quo.

his arab resistance weakening? >> that has been a change in leadership and countries that are afraid of governments and rulers to stay in power, therefore claim to external support mainly from the united states and israel. these are countries that are being -- they are losing their sovereignty. where they get their water, their food, without getting the approval of the israeli or american government to do so. therefore, it's a decline in palestinians, but the

overwhelmingly is repeatedly affirmed in public opinion: a single state. palestinians must have their state and refugee hood must be resolved. this is a bigger issue, and the significant thing that's happening, since last may or june, the reframing of the palestine conflict, the irony

and thing that is important for israelis is arab-israelis in mandated palestine now make up just over 50% of the population. there are more arab palestinians than there are jewish palestinians, and this is going to continue. this is what is driving some of the extremism. men and women put up a statement and wrote a letter to the government. to stop, take a position which was the villages south of heaven.

this is significant. it's not a majority but it is starting to happen all over the united states. there is a greater demand for rights for palestinians. anchor: we are nearing the end of the program. i would like to pass back over, do you agree with the analysis of the reframing and how that is being communicated? >> israel rejected that. they have made every possible obstacle.

that rejection, regardless of who was the prime minister, and because of that settlement expansion, palestinians are coming out and we are entitled to remove the system. that was in 1948 what is now 6.5 million palestinian refugees. i think israel did not want a compromise. anchor: we will have to leave it there. thank you for watching. you can see it on the program at any time, for further discussion

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