Day 203: Jerusalem during “Al-Aqsa Flood” Operation
On the 203rd day of "Al-Aqsa Flood Operation", the occupation authorities imposed restrictions on the entry of worshipers into Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform the dawn and Friday prayers, and attacked the worshipers by beating and pushing them at the Lions Gate.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Jerusalem explained that the forces were stationed in the morning hours at all the gates of Al-Aqsa and the Old City, and they stopped those arriving to Al-Aqsa and checked their identities, and at the King Faisal Gate and Hutta Gate, they prevented dozens of young men from entering Al-Aqsa.
The center added that the forces closed the main "Lions Gate" road to vehicles and designated a path for pedestrians. During this, they stopped young men and boys, aged between 10-45 years, and refused to allow them to enter towards Al-Aqsa without any reason, and assaulted some of them by beating and pushing them while expelling them and forcing them to leave the place.
The center monitored attacks on elderly people and women by pushing, screaming, and threatening them, as they demanded to allocate a lane for them due to overcrowding on the only lane set up by the forces for all worshippers.
After the young men were prevented from entering Al-Aqsa, and during the call to prayer in the Lions Gate area, the forces suppressed them and beat them with batons, while the young men insisted on praying at the closest point they were able to reach, so they performed prayers at the junction between “Ras al-Amoud and Lions Gate.”
The forces beat and pushed journalist Ahmed Jalajel, while he was monitoring and photographing the events in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
At dawn prayer, the forces were stationed at Lions Gate- one of the gates of the Old City - and Hutta Gate - the gate of Al-Aqsa - and prevented the young men from entering Al-Aqsa, and assaulted them by beating and pushing them.
The forces continued to deploy their forces and close some intersections around the town of Silwan.
