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Arrests…administrative detention…travel-ban orders and deportation from the Old City of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque
December 12, 2022

On Monday evening, the occupation forces arrested two young men from the town of Al-Tur in Jerusalem, while renewing travel bans for 3 freed prisoners.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Jerusalem stated that the forces arrested two young men from the town of Al-Tur, after they deployed in the streets of the neighborhood.

The occupation authorities renewed the travel bans for 3 Jerusalemite freed prisoners, they are: Nihad Zghayyar, Hamza Zghayyar and Abd Saleh Hamed, by a decision of the Minister of Interior in the occupation government, AyeletShakid, "according to the Emergency Law 1948."

On the other hand, the lawyer of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, Mohammad Mahmoud, explained that the police released two boys from the village of Sur Baher, after they arrested them from the Herods Gate area, on the condition that they be deported from the Old City of Jerusalem for a period of two weeks.

The occupation authorities handed the guard of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Khalil Al-Tarhouni, a decision to expel him from the mosque for a period of 3 months. Al-Tarhouni was arrested in the morning while working in Al-Aqsa, and was transferred to Al-Qishla police station where he was handed the expulsion order.

For the third time in a row, the occupation authorities renewed the administrative detention against the young man Areen Al-Za'aneen, from Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood in Jerusalem, for a period of 3 months, as he was scheduled to be released on Monday after the end of the two administrative detention periods that extended for 9 months.

The police also deported the Jerusalemite activist Mohammad Abu al-Hummus from the Damascus Gate area and Nablus Street, for two weeks, after summoning him for interrogation.

On the other hand, the occupation municipality forced the Jerusalemite Thaer Obeid to self-demolish his "under-construction" house in the village of Issawiyaunder the pretext of building without a permit.