The Jerusalem Governorate said that 23 citizens were killed in the governorate during the first half of 2024, and 708 citizens were arrested.

The governorate explained in a statement issued on Tuesday that among the martyrs were 10 children, the youngest of whom was a girl who was not more than 4 years old.

She pointed out that during the monitored period, the occupation executed: Muhammad Abu Eid (32 years old), his wife Doha Abu Eid (26 years old), the child Ruqaya Abu Dahuk (3 years old), the child Suleiman Kanaan (17 years old), and the child Wadih Owaisat (14 years old). years), Muhammad Khadour (19 years old), the child Muhammad Abu Sneina (16 years old), Fadi Jamjoum (40 years old), Muhammad Manasra (31 years old), the child Mustafa Abu Shalbak (16 years old), and the child Rami Al-Halhouli (13 years old), The young man Zaid Khalifa (23 years old), the child Abdullah Assaf (16 years old), the child Nour Shihabi (17 years old), and the child Muhammad Hoshiya (12 years old).

From outside the governorate, 5 Palestinians died on the land of Jerusalem: Muhammad Zawahra (26 years old), Ahmed Al-Wahsh (31 years old), Nizar Hasasneh (34 years old), the child Mustafa Talib (15 years old), Turkish tourist Hassan Scalanan (34 years old), and Rami. Taqatqa (44 years old). In the Gaza Strip, the child Janan Abu Sneina died, as did the freed detainee who was deported to the Gaza Strip, Zakaria Najeeb.

The governorate pointed out that the occupation authorities are still detaining the bodies of (41) Palestinian Jerusalemites  until the end of the first half of 2024, in refrigerators and number cemeteries.

79 injuries as a result of the occupation’s attack on Jerusalemites

The Jerusalem Governorate recorded the injury of (79) citizens as a result of live and rubber-coated metal bullets and severe beatings, in addition to cases of gas suffocation.

127 demolitions

During the monitored period, the occupation authorities carried out (127) demolition and bulldozing operations, including: (42 forced self-demolition operations) and (73 demolition operations carried out by occupation mechanisms), in addition to 12 bulldozing operations.

73 attacks carried out by settlers

The report monitored the colonists carrying out (73) assaults, including (10) physical assaults.

25,054 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa

The governorate pointed out that 25,054 colonists and 19,118 under the name of “tourists” stormed Al-Aqsa with the support of the occupation police, during which they performed prayers and Talmudic rituals, and wore costumes during their storming of the Blessed Mosque on the days of the so-called “Purim” holiday.

The occupation forces also continued their siege of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which they imposed since the seventh of last October by restricting the entry of worshipers to it. They are stationed all the time at the gates of Al-Aqsa, placing iron barriers, stopping arrivals, trying to obstruct their entry into it, and preventing this at many times, especially with... prayer time.

In conjunction with this ban and restrictions on Muslims entering Al-Aqsa, the colonists’ incursions into it through the Mughariba Gate continue. During the first half of the year, the occupation forces restricted worshipers during Fridays. The occupation authorities continued to impose restrictions on freedom of worship and the entry of worshipers to Al-Aqsa. They erected barriers at the gates of Al-Aqsa and at the entrances and roads of the Old City and the neighborhoods close to it. They assaulted worshipers on more than one occasion by beating, pushing, and arresting them. .

During the first half of the year, the occupation authorities imposed restrictions on the number of participants allowed in “the funeral - accompanying the body, carrying it, and praying over it” inside Al-Aqsa - as the number of people allowed to enter was limited to a maximum of 10 people.

During the month of Ramadan, the occupation prevented worshipers from the West Bank from accessing Al-Aqsa Mosque except through restrictions: including age, as the age was set for men over 55 years old and women over 50 years old, and issuing special permits for prayer that expire at five o’clock in the evening, meaning the worshiper can perform the noon and afternoon prayers. He is forced to leave Jerusalem before performing the Maghrib, Isha, and Tarawih prayers.

During the month of Ramadan, the occupation forces stormed Al-Qibli Mosque more than once, and expelled those secluded inside, especially in the days preceding and coinciding with the so-called “Purim” holiday.

708 arrested

During the first half of the year 2024, (708) cases of arrest were monitored in all areas of Jerusalem Governorate, including (73) children and (37) women.

205 prison sentences

The report monitored the occupation authorities issuing (205) actual prison sentences against Jerusalemite detainees, including (135) administrative detention sentences.

One of the highest sentences issued by the occupation authorities during the first half was the sentence issued against the Jerusalemite detainee Rashid Al-Rishq for a period of 13 years and 10 months.

The report indicated that during the first half of the year 2024, an increase in the frequency of actual prison sentences was observed compared to previous years, as 64 rulings were recorded in the first half of the year 2021, including 25 administrative detention decisions, and in the first half of the year 2022, 133 decisions were recorded, including 36 decisions. Administrative detention. In the first half of 2023, 192 sentences were issued, including 76 administrative detention.

28 house arrest decisions

We monitored (28) house arrest decisions issued by the occupation authorities during the first half of 2024.

54 deportation decision

The occupation authorities issued 54 deportation decisions, 31 of which were deportation from Al-Aqsa Mosque, as a means to suppress the Palestinian presence in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Old City, Damascus Gate and other targeted neighborhoods.

5 travel ban decisions

During the first half of 2024, 5 travel ban decisions were monitored.

Attacks against Christian sanctities

A number of attacks on Christian places and sanctities were monitored. On February 3, colonialists attacked a German monk, the cleric Father Nicodemus Schnabel, the head of the Benedictine monks in the Holy Land, and attacked him by spitting and insulting Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, while he was walking in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

During March, the occupation prevented thousands of Christians this year from arriving in Jerusalem to celebrate Easter - according to the Western calendar - and Palm Sunday, the Via Dolorosa, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and participation in religious rituals, as the occupation refused to issue entry permits to Jerusalem for Palestinian Christians. Residents of the West Bank, except in limited numbers and under restrictive conditions.

On May 3, the occupation forces tightened their measures and installed iron barriers with the aim of restricting Christians observing the “sad” Good Friday.

On May 4, the occupation deployed barriers in the roads and gates of the Old City in occupied Jerusalem to restrict Christians on the occasion of the celebration of “Holy Saturday” according to the Eastern calendar.

The occupation forces also obstructed the arrival of Christian Jerusalemites to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, restricted their celebration of Holy Saturday, assaulted them in the vicinity of the church, and arrested the Greek consul’s guard from inside the church. It restricted the access of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank to participate in Holy Saturday celebrations in Jerusalem, erected barriers and iron barricades, and limited the number of participants inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. It also attacked the participants and arrested a number of them in a barbaric manner.

The Eastern Christians had announced the cancellation of celebrations and limited them to religious rituals out of respect for Gaza and its bleeding blood, so the scouts roamed the neighborhoods of Jerusalem without a sound, while the “wedding” ceremony was held from the Christian neighborhood to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to the sound of national and religious chants.

During June, the occupation municipality handed over to the heads of churches in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Nazareth, and Ramla a decision that it would take what it called “legal” measures against them due to non-payment of real estate taxes (arnona), in contravention of the status quo agreement and international laws.

Approval of 13 colonial projects

In its relentless and insanely accelerating pursuit to impose a new reality on the occupied city of Jerusalem and Judaize it through the implementation of dangerous colonial projects, during the first half of the year 2024.

The occupation authorities approved (13) new colonial projects, in addition to starting to implement more than 9 projects that were approved earlier. The occupation authorities also completed work on two colonial projects, in a step aimed at imposing a new reality on the city and Judaizing it.

Targeting national and Islamic figures

The report continued: Under the far-right government led by flocks of colonialists, the occupation authorities continue their attempts to impose sovereignty over Jerusalem and its sanctities with the aim of imposing a new reality, and continue their racist policy against the national symbols of Jerusalem, led by the Governor of Jerusalem, Adnan Ghaith, upon whom the occupation imposes a decision of open house arrest. He has been in his home since August 4, 2022, without specifying a time period for the decision. One of the last decisions issued against Ghaith was a decision to renew his deportation from the West Bank for a new period of 4 months, until next September 16.

The occupation authorities also targeted a number of national and Islamic figures, most notably: the secretary of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem, Shadi Al-Mutawar, whom the occupation courts ruled to imprison him for 20 days, and several other Jerusalemite figures.

The occupation police also attacked participants in commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the passing of the Emir of Jerusalem, Faisal Al-Husseini, by beating and pushing them, which led to the injury of the director of the Prisoner Club, Nasser Qaws, and Ishaq Al-Qawasmi, an employee of Orient House.

Targeting educational institutions and students

In continuous attempts to undermine the efforts of Jerusalemites inside the occupied capital, the occupation continues the policy of closing the institutions operating there and suppressing activities that prove the presence and steadfastness of Jerusalemites in the occupied city.

Among the most prominent of these attacks during the first half of the year 2024: targeting educational institutions and Jerusalemite students, fighting the Palestinian curriculum, attacking religious places and obliterating their landmarks, in addition to incitement and hate speech, incitement against international institutions in Jerusalem (UNRWA), attacks against journalists, and obliterating the city’s landmarks. And attacks on national events.