Jerusalem marks Pride 10 years after murder of teenage marcher

Thousands of Israelis took to the streets under a heavy police presence for Jerusalem’s annual Pride march Thursday, a decade after the murder of a teenager by a Jewish extremist during the same event.

The fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Shira Banki on July 30 that year, in an attack that also wounded six others, prompted police to step up their surveillance of Pride festivities in Jerusalem in the years that followed.

Thursday’s march snaked through central Jerusalem, with participants carrying…

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News Source: www.al-monitor.com

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