Day 233 Jerusalem during “Al-Aqsa Flood” Operation
On the 233rd day of "Al-Aqsa Flood Operation", the occupation authorities transformed the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the city of Jerusalem into a military barracks, during the settlers’ celebrations of the “Torch Festival”, and the settlers’ incursions into Al-Aqsa continued.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Jerusalem explained that tens of thousands of settlers stormed the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and celebrated the “Torch Festival”, and the Minister of National Security in the occupation government, Itamar Ben Gavir, stormed the neighborhood, to participate in the celebrations.
The “Torch Festival” celebrations began yesterday evening and continued until nine o’clock this evening, and the sounds of loud music, dancing and singing rose over the past hours in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the neighborhoods adjacent to it, and the settlers also performed prayers inside a cave in the neighborhood that they call the “Tomb of Simeon the just”.
The police deployed in the streets of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, completely closing some of them and preventing traffic and movement through them, and placed barriers and iron barricades at the intersections and in the vicinity of the celebration.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Jerusalem explained that the central celebration of the “Torch Festival” was held this year in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the city of Jerusalem, “on the main street within two plots of land, one of which was confiscated under the pretext of ‘public benefit,’ and the second belongs to two Palestinian families.”
Mrs. Umm Ramadan Al-Sa’ou, a resident of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, talked about the siege of the neighborhood, and said: “They want to move the “Torch Festival” celebration to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood for political and settlement goals. Tens of thousands of settlers are in the neighborhood, and we are besieged inside our homes. We did not go out to work and the students did not go to their schools, due to the siege, closure, and the presence of settlers in the neighborhood... for the first time, this siege has been imposed on the region.”
Al-Sa'ou drew attention to the loud noises that accompanied the celebration hours, especially in the evening hours and after midnight.
Surveillance cameras recorded one of the settlers urinating in front of a house in the neighborhood, under police protection.
On the other hand, dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa, through the Dung Gate, and the number of intruders reached 192 Jewish settlers and students.
The settlers also stormed the Al-Buraq Wall, to celebrate the “Torch Festival.”
On the other hand, the occupation authorities transferred the young man, Huthaifa Attoun, to administrative detention for a period of 6 months.
