Day 303 Jerusalem during “Al-Aqsa Flood” Operation
On the 303rd day of "Al-Aqsa Flood Operation", the occupation authorities placed demolition decisions and orders on residential homes in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood in Jerusalem, while hundreds of settlers carried out their raids on Al-Aqsa, and the intelligence service delivered decisions to expel young Jerusalemites from Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the raids on towns and neighborhoods in the city continued.
Demolition Orders
Joint crews from the occupation municipality and the "Nature and parks Authority" accompanied by the police and special forces stormed the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood in the city of Jerusalem, under the pretext of building without a permit.
The families in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood "the Hisbah area" explained that the occupation authorities stormed the neighborhood for the second time in a week, and placed demolition decisions on 17 homes in the area, which house about 70 individuals, including patients and the elderly.
The families added that the homes in the area have been standing for decades, and violations have been imposed on them over the past years.
The families pointed out that the entire area is threatened with demolition, in favor of the "Nature and parks Authority", to convert it into public benefit and parks.
Last month, the occupation municipality demolished the Jaber family building in the area. The first floor has been standing since the Jordanian era. It has also carried out separate demolitions of residential and commercial facilities over the past years, under the pretext that it is a green area and construction is prohibited there.
The municipality demanded that the families implement the demolition decisions themselves, threatening to impose fines on them.
In the village of Issawiya, municipality crews stormed the village, raided shops, imposed random fines on merchants, confiscated goods, and photographed facilities.
The forces also set up checkpoints randomly in the streets of the village, issued fines to vehicles, and revoked the licenses of many of them.
Al-Aqsa: Continuous raids and the "monthly gates march”
207 extremist settlers and Jewish students carried out their raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the protection of the occupation forces, through the Dung Gate, from which daily raids on Al-Aqsa take place during the "morning and afternoon” incursion periods.
In the evening hours, the settlers organized the "monthly gates march" which is organized on the eve of the beginning of the Hebrew month. The settlers prayed at the gates of Al-Aqsa from the outside, and the sounds of prayers, singing, and dancing rose, along with chants against Arabs and Muslims. During the march, they raised Israeli flags. The march begins from Al-Buraq Square, passing through the gates of Al-Aqsa (Al-Silsileh, Al-Qattaneen, Al-Majles, Al-Ghawanmeh, King Faisal, Hutta, Lions), then sets off outside the walls of the Old City to return to Al-Buraq Square, passing through Dung Gate Road.
The forces closed some of the main intersections in Jerusalem in conjunction with the march's path outside the walls of the Old City, and set up barricades and closed roads during its march inside the city.
Expulsion from Al-Aqsa Mosque
The occupation authorities handed the young men: Omar Al-Firawi, Ramzi Al-Abbasi, Nidal Asfour, and Mohammad Abu Sneineh, decisions to expel them from Al-Aqsa Mosque for a week with the possibility of renewal for 6 months. The forces had arrested the young men and released them on the condition that they attend an investigation on "Sunday" in Al-Qishla police station, and the investigation with them focused "on the chants in Al-Aqsa" on Friday after the mourning of the martyr Ismail Haniyeh.
Arrests
Arrests continued in the city of Jerusalem, and the forces arrested the young man Mu’taz Nofal from the village of Issawiya in the city.
The Israeli police said that during the past week, they arrested 431 Palestinians holding "West Bank" ID cards on the pretext of entering Jerusalem "illegally", and they also arrested 49 suspects that helped transporting them.
Confrontations and raids
At midnight, the Shu’fat refugee camp witnessed violent confrontations between the forces and young men, and the forces threw tear gas bombs heavily in the streets of the camp and used rubber bullets.
In Silwan, the forces stormed the town's neighborhoods and threw bombs randomly.
During the hours of Sunday, the raids on towns and neighborhoods continued, and checkpoints were set up in the city's streets.
