Occupied Jerusalem- Last May was crowded with Israeli violations in the occupied city of Jerusalem, with martyrs, detainees, demolitions, and the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque and many villages and neighborhoods on its land.
The boy Nour Shihabi joined the list of martyrs on May 16, and the young man Rami Taqatqa on the 19th of the same month, whose body was handed over, while the occupation authorities are still holding Shihabi’s body.
In terms of the attacks carried out by extremist Temple groups and their supporters in Al-Aqsa Mosque, more than 4,000 extremists stormed its courtyards and performed biblical rituals and prayers during their tours, the most prominent of which was the “epic prostration” ritual and the storming of barefoot extremists, in addition to performing collective public prayers, especially in the eastern region. Next to Bab Al-Rahma Chapel.
Extra time for intrusions
The extremist groups expressed their joy at extending the period of evening raids for an additional quarter of an hour before closing the Mughariba Gate designated for raids, the keys of which have been controlled by the occupation since 1967.
During the so-called Israeli “Independence Day”, the squares of the first two qibla witnessed several violations, most notably the raising of the Israeli flag, the chanting of the national anthem “Hatikvah”, and the implementation of the “epic prostration” ritual. The Mughrabi Gate was closed on that occasion after 526 settlers stormed the mosque.
These violations were recorded after an unprecedented mobilization of Temple Mount leaders of their supporters to raise 500 Israeli flags inside Al-Aqsa, saying, “The next mission now: filling the Temple Mount with Israeli flags in the face of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.”
The danger of raising Israeli flags en masse inside Al-Aqsa still exists, with the pages of Temple groups beginning to mobilize their supporters for a massive storming of the mosque next Wednesday on the occasion of the “Unification of Jerusalem” Day, which includes the annual flag march.
In conjunction with these attacks, the occupation police stationed at the gates prevented worshipers from entering Al-Aqsa and praying there, and deliberately drained its courtyards of the Islamic presence throughout the month in their effort to stabilize the “temporal division” policy that has become clear and is implemented on a daily basis.
100 arrests
In terms of arrests, the freedom of about 100 Jerusalemites was deprived, including 26 minors and 5 women, according to special monitoring by Tel Aviv Tribune Net. The occupation courts also renewed and transferred 32 prisoners from the Jerusalem Governorate to administrative detention, including the former Minister of Jerusalem who was deported from the city, Khaled Abu Arafa, for whom this sentence was renewed for an additional two months. .
The occupation courts turned 3 homes in Jerusalem into prisons after sentencing 3 Jerusalemite children to house arrest, and issued 6 deportation orders, including two from Al-Aqsa Mosque and 3 from the city of Jerusalem, in addition to renewing the deportation of Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith from the West Bank.
It was noteworthy during the past month that demolition operations increased in the Jerusalem Governorate, as Tel Aviv Tribune Net monitored 29 demolition operations, including 9 forced self-demolition operations, while the demolition operations with occupation bulldozers were concentrated in the town of Hizma with 12 residential, commercial, animal and agricultural facilities.
Demolitions and raids
The “punitive demolition” policy affected the house of the Jerusalemite martyr Fadi Jamjoum in the Shuafat camp, which is the fourth house to be demolished under the umbrella of this policy since the beginning of this year, and the sixth since the outbreak of the war on Gaza on the seventh of last October.
During last May, there were raids by the occupation forces, and confrontations broke out in Al-Issawiya, Silwan, and Sur Baher inside the separation wall, Anata, Ras Khamis, and the Qalandia and Shuafat camps outside it.
In the Shuafat camp, the most violent confrontations broke out, and during its storming, several loud arrests were carried out, accompanied by beatings and abuse. The occupation army deliberately punished the camp residents collectively by randomly targeting property and passers-by with gas and sound bombs. The occupation forces also tightened the noose on the Jerusalemites who crossed the military camp checkpoint towards the center. the city every day, and they were forced to wait long hours to pass it.
On the last day of the month, the occupation forces dispersed a protest organized by friends of the late Palestinian leader Faisal Al-Husseini in front of Orient House on the 26th anniversary of his death.
The neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Batn al-Hawa in Silwan – whose residents are at risk of forced displacement from violations – were not spared, as the Israeli Supreme Court gave the Shehadeh family in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood until June 1 to leave three homes belonging to them for the benefit of settlers, and the occupation also transferred the Sheikh neighborhood. Jarrah, in its eastern and western parts, was moved to a military barracks so that tens of thousands of Jews could celebrate the Torch Festival in the neighborhood on May 26.
Also in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, settlers repeatedly attacked the headquarters of the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and set fires in its vicinity. The so-called “Israel Lands Authority” claimed that it had informed the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) of the need to evacuate its headquarters in Jerusalem within 30 days.
The agency resorted to verifying the accuracy of what was published in the Israeli media and social media in this regard, and its response was as follows: “Regarding reports that the Israel Lands Authority granted UNRWA 30 days to evacuate its buildings, these media reports were reviewed, but we were not contacted by anyone.” From the Israeli authorities on this issue, and this news is only part of a series of attempts to dismantle UNRWA.”
She added in her response that it is “a United Nations agency, and has received a mandate from the United Nations General Assembly since 1949 to carry out its work… and we are not going anywhere.”
