Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ahmad Jalajel - Jerusalem Governorate reported, on Tuesday, that the number of Palestinian detainees in the governorate has reached 400 since the beginning of the year.

Marouf al-Rifai, the media advisor to the Jerusalem governorate, said in press statements that this is a dangerous escalation compared to the number of detainees in the same period of 2022.

And Al-Rifai indicated that the occupation forces expanded their arrest campaigns against activists and young men in Jerusalem, following the civil disobedience that took place in several areas of Jerusalem governorate two days ago.

He pointed to the escalation of mass arrests carried out by the occupation security forces, especially with the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, and the Jewish Passover holiday coinciding with the third week of it, as they carry out precautionary arrests before this date every year.

Al-Rifai considered that the escalation of arrests against Jerusalemite youths is a continuation of the systematic policy pursued by successive occupation governments to pressure the youths of the Holy City to empty it of its original inhabitants, in a desperate attempt to Judaize it and replace them with settlers.