Day 176: Jerusalem during “Al-Aqsa Flood” Operation
On the 176th day of "Al-Aqsa Flood Operation", the assassination of the freed Jerusalem prisoner Zakaria Najib in the Gaza Strip was announced, while the forces suppressed a sit-in in the area of Damascus Gate in support of Gaza Strip, and carried out various arrests from the gates of Al-Aqsa and the neighborhoods of the city of Jerusalem, including girls, young men and women.
The Jerusalemite martyr Zakaria Najib
The Israeli authorities announced the assassination of the freed Jerusalemite prisoner - who was deported to the Gaza Strip - Zakaria Lutfi Najib, 67 years old, in the Gaza Strip.
During his years of living in the city of Jerusalem, Najib was subjected to several arrests, and spent 22 years in an Israeli prison, the last of which was in 1994 on the charge of participating in the "kidnapping of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman " and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and was released in the "Shalit deal in 2011” and deported to Gaza Strip.
Since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip, a number of prisoners from Jerusalem who were deported to the Gaza Strip during the Shalit 2011 deal were martyred, they are: Naser Daoud Halisi (67 years old) and his brother Tarek Daoud Halisi (64 years old), and all their family members (they are from Silwan), and Mohammad Ibrahim Hamada (from Sur Baher), the child Jinan Abu Sneineh - the daughter of the freed prisoner Shuaib Abu Sneineh - who is from the town of Silwan.
Damascus Gate and Al-Aqsa…Sit-ins in support of the Gaza Strip
A sit-in was organized in the Damascus Gate area and a second one in the Al-Aqsa in support of the Gaza Strip.
In the Damascus Gate area, as soon as a group of young women and men raised the banners in support of the Gaza Strip and chanted for the Gaza, the forces attacked them in large numbers and confiscated the banners and then tore them up and carried out arrests from the place, then the forces were deployed in the place and in the vicinity of Damascus Gate.
In Al-Aqsa Mosque, after the end of Fajer prayer, a sit-in was organized and chants of support for the Gaza Strip were chanted.
Arrests and raids
The forces carried out various arrests from the city of Jerusalem, and the arrests included young men and women, from the gates of Al-Aqsa, Silwan, Al-Tur, Shu’fat refugee camp, and the Damascus Gate area.
For the second day in a row, extensive arrests were carried out from the city of Jerusalem, mainly at the gates of Al-Aqsa.
