Prohibition of the ceremony "honoring the Tawjihi students" ... arrests… expulsions from Al-Aqsa
On the seventh day of “Al-Aqsa Flood” Operation, two boys from the village of Issawiya were martyred. The forces suppressed “Friday prayers” in the streets with bombs and beatings. The siege imposed on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the city of Jerusalem continued, and the neighborhoods and towns of the city witnessed sporadic confrontations.
Martyr of Issawiya
In the afternoon hours, confrontations broke out in the village of Issawiya, and the forces used live bullets to suppress the youths, which led to the injury of the boy, Mohammad Taher Mustafa, 16 years old, with two bullets to the chest and head, and he was declared dead in Al-Maqased Hospital.
After the funeral of the martyr Mustafa, the confrontations renewed at the entrance to the village, and the forces used live bullets indiscriminately and recorded several injuries, including the boy Laith Abu Murra, 17 years old. The Red Crescent said that he had undergone cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and then his death was announced at Al-Maqased Hospital.
The Jerusalemites mourned the bodies of the martyr Abu Murra and Mustafa, after family and friends bid farewell to them. The two funerals roamed the streets of Issawiya and reached the village’s cemetery.
The young men chanted for Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa, and Gaza.
The village’s streets and entrances were closed with wooden barriers, stones, and containers, while forces were deployed in large numbers at all the village’s entrances and roads.
The Red Crescent said that its crews transported the seriously wounded to the hospital, then announced their death. It also dealt with 5 injuries: “2 live bullets, 2 gas injuries, and 1 rubber bullet injury.”
In the evening hours, clashes broke out in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood, the Shu’fat refugee camp, and the town of al-Tur.
Prevent and suppress prayers
The occupation forces imposed restrictions on worshipers entering Al-Aqsa to perform Friday prayers, and the Islamic Endowments Department estimated that 5,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa.
The forces set up barriers at all entrances to the Old City, and at the gates of Al-Aqsa, and searched young men, women, and the elderly before allowing them to enter the mosque. They also searched the young men, seized their IDs, then prevented them from entering Al-Aqsa and asked them to go to their place of residence.
In the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood, young men performed Friday prayers after being prevented from reaching Al-Aqsa. Suddenly, immediately after the start of the Friday sermon, the forces threw a barrage of sound bombs at the worshipers, severely beating them with batons, and cavalry teams suppressed them.
Despite the repression, the young men insisted on performing prayers in the neighborhood.
The forces also tried to prevent prayers on “Al-Hisba” Street, Ras Al-Amoud and Lions Gate, but dozens of young men were able to perform Friday prayers on the asphalt.
After the prayer ended, confrontations broke out in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood, and the forces fired sound and gas bombs and sprayed wastewater to disperse the young men.
Demanding the evacuation of the house of the martyr Al-Muhtaseb
The occupation forces, accompanied by crews from the “Engineering Unit,” stormed the house of the martyr Khaled Al-Muhtaseb in Beit Hanina, and took measurements of the house, examined the walls, and photographed it.
The forces also asked the family to empty and evacuate the house, without clarifying or providing any additional information.
The forces released the martyr's family members after interrogating them for several hours.
The young man, Al-Muhtaseb, was martyred during a “shooting” operation that he carried out at the Salah Al-Din Street police station, during which he was engaged in an armed clash with police officers.
The forces also stormed the vicinity of the house of the martyr Ali Al-Abbasi, and demanded, through loudspeakers, not to gather at the door of the house, otherwise they will be suppressed by the forces.
The occupation forces continued arrests from the city of Jerusalem, and the center monitored the following arrests:
1. Shaima Al Hindi
2. Uday Hijazi
3. Izz Hijazi
4. Adnan Diab
5. Mohammad Ahmed Zaytoun