Day 294 Jerusalem during “Al-Aqsa Flood” Operation
On the 294th day of "Al-Aqsa Flood Operation", the occupation authorities prevented hundreds of worshipers from entering Al-Aqsa to perform the Noon prayer, and assaulted and pushed young men, while carrying out scattered arrests in the city, and continued raids on towns and neighborhoods.
35 thousand perform Friday prayers... beatings and arrests
The Islamic Endowments Department estimated the number of worshipers for Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque at about 35 thousand worshipers.
The occupation forces were deployed at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque and on the roads leading to it, since the morning hours, and randomly prevented young men and boys from entering Al-Aqsa to perform the prayer, and assaulted many of them by beating and pushing.
One of the young men was injured in his head after being beaten with sticks.
The forces also pursued the young men at the gates of Al-Aqsa and in the alleys of the Old City, to remove those who were prevented from entering it, praying at its gates, and forcibly removed them from the Old City.
The young men performed the prayer at the nearest point they could reach, after being prevented and denied from entering Al-Aqsa.
The forces arrested the young men: Rami Al-Fakhouri, Sbeih Abu Sbeih, and Mohammad Abu Sbeih, after they left Al-Aqsa.
In the evening hours, they arrested the freed prisoner Mohammad Al-Shalabi.
On Thursday, the occupation authorities renewed the administrative detention of the young man Mohammad Hijazi Abu Sbeih for 4 months.
Raids
In the evening hours, the forces stormed the village of Issawiya.
The Red Crescent said that its crews in Jerusalem dealt with 6 injuries in Issawiya after they were severely beaten, including a 12-year-old boy, a 76-year-old woman, and a 56-year-old man, and they were transferred to hospitals for treatment.
Eyewitnesses explained that the forces stormed a house and assaulted the residents by beating and spraying pepper gas, and they also arrested two residents.
The forces also stormed the Shu’fat refugee camp.
The forces continued to set up checkpoints in the city of Jerusalem.
Closure of a commercial store
The police closed a commercial store in the city of Jerusalem for two weeks, on the pretext that there were two workers with West Bank IDs in it.
