Collective deportations of Palestinians from Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan
The occupation authorities have escalated their policy of deporting Palestinians from Al-Aqsa Mosque for a period of one week, with the possibility of renewal for several months, coinciding with the month of Ramadan.
In recent days, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center has monitored several ways to inform Jerusalemites of the decisions to deport them from Al-Aqsa Mosque, which are: calling the young man by phone and informing him that he is banned from entering Al-Aqsa, and threatening him if he reaches it "without specifying a specific period and without summoning him for investigation."
During the phone call with the young men by intelligence officers, they are informed of the time of their last prayer in Al-Aqsa, threatening them if they enter it and pray in it during the coming period.
As for the second method, it is: detaining the young men at the gates of Al-Aqsa, especially during their influx to it for the evening and Tarawih prayers. After a field investigation, they are informed of the deportation decision for a week, and are asked to come to the "Al-Qishla" police station in the Old City of Jerusalem to receive the deportation decision for several months, which is what happened with the Jerusalemite photographer Mohammad Abu Sneineh.
The third method is to stop young men at the gates of Al-Aqsa while they are trying to enter it, and hand them summonses to attend the investigation on a specific date. This happened with the freed prisoner Imad Abbasi, as he was stopped on Sunday evening in the Dung Gate area, and handed a summons for investigation on “Monday” at the Al-Qishla police station. Upon his arrival, he was handed a decision to ban him from entering the mosque for a week with the possibility of renewal.
The fourth method is: carrying out arrests at the gates of Al-Aqsa for young men and boys from Jerusalem, and transferring them for investigation to the Al-Qishla police station in the Old City of Jerusalem, then handing them decisions to ban them from entering Al-Aqsa. This happened with the young Jerusalemite man, Mohammad Bakri.
The fifth method is: summoning the young men to the Al-Qishla police station, handing them decisions to ban them from entering Al-Aqsa for a week, and asking them to return after a week to renew the decision.
The intelligence service summoned the journalist Basem Zidani for investigation, and handed him a decision to ban him from entering Al-Aqsa for a week with the possibility of renewal.
The Information Center monitored several cases for each “deportation method,” and many of them preferred not to mention their names.
Sheikh Nour Al-Din Rajabi was also banned from entering Al-Aqsa for 6 months.
Before the month of Ramadan, dozens of Palestinians were deported from Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the deportations included those released in the prisoner exchange deal, prisoners who were released years ago, Jerusalemite activists, young men and women, journalists, and young men and women from the Palestinian 1948 lands.
Last week, the Israeli police announced that they had issued orders to ban prisoners released in the current prisoner exchange deal from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Among those was the freed prisoner Khaled Halabi - who was released in the seventh batch - and he is a Christian.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Jerusalem monitored in its report for the month of February more than 120 decisions to deport Jerusalemites from Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Old City, their place of residence, streets and neighborhoods in Jerusalem, and to prevent them from entering the West Bank.
The Information Center said that the Jerusalemite prisoners who were released in previous exchange batches during the months of January and February were handed decisions to ban them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque for a period of 6 months. The Information Center had monitored the deportation decisions since the first day of the release of prisoners in the first batch last January, where the prisoner is informed before his release at the "Al-Maskoubiya" police station that he is banned from entering Al-Aqsa and is required to head to Al-Qishla police station. Upon his arrival, he is handed a decision to ban him from entering Al-Aqsa.
On Friday, the forces also arrested the Jerusalemite Abu Bakr Shaimi from the Hutta Gate area, and renewed the decision to ban him from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque. In the evening hours, the forces arrested the journalist Mohammad Al-Sadiq and his wife, the journalist Bayan Jo’beh. The journalist Mohammad was released on condition of expelling him from Al-Aqsa, while Jo’beh was transferred to house arrest.
On Sunday morning, the Jerusalemite forces arrested Nafisa Khweis, detained her in the Al-Qishla police station for 7 hours, and threatened her from approaching the streets and corridors of Al-Aqsa. It is worth noting that she has been deported from Al-Aqsa since last October, and her deportation will continue until April.
