The Israeli occupation forces arrested yesterday the governor of Jerusalem, Adnan Ghaith, and launched a campaign of arrests in the West Bank, and the Israeli boats fired at fishermen boats in the sea view of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces raided the house of the governor of Jerusalem in the town of Silwan and took him to a detention center in Jerusalem. The detention was the third of its kind since the end of last month.
The government of the National Accord condemned the arrest of the governor of Jerusalem, and government spokesman Yusuf al-Mahmoud said that «the occupation authorities want behind these steps of occupation to impose more hegemony, and the establishment of the illusion that it has the upper hand in the occupied city of Jerusalem».
"The city of Jerusalem represents the symbol of existence and survival in the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic conscience, and therefore no force will be able to control a grain of dust from which only the strength of its original people, and history has seen it completely, as the inevitability of the occupation is destined to disappear."
The Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests in various areas in the West Bank yesterday, including nine Palestinians, including five children from Bethlehem, while the Israeli boats fired at fishermen boats in the sea view of the Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli boats fired heavy machine guns at fishermen's boats in the North Sea and the south of the Gaza Strip without reports of casualties among the fishermen.
Dozens of residents of Israeli settlements closed yesterday the roads leading to the Karam Abu Salem crossing to prevent truckloads from entering the Gaza Strip.
Settlers damaged the tires of three vehicles, sprayed racist slogans on other vehicles and house walls in the village of Mughayir, north of Ramallah, and uprooted more than 40 olive trees in the nearby village of Tarsmaya.
The Israeli occupation forces detained dozens of workers near the al-Dhahiriya junction south of Hebron in the West Bank after they chased them in the surrounding agricultural lands. They ambushed the place and took them from their detention centers.
The Israeli occupation forces erected a sudden military checkpoint at the entrance of the western head of the town of Battir, west of Bethlehem. They stopped Palestinian vehicles and searched their personal cards, causing their movement to be obstructed. Nablus, after it was raided by the Israeli occupation forces.
The European Union condemned yesterday evening the destruction of Palestinian shops in the Shu'fat refugee camp in Jerusalem. "These actions undermine the prospects for peace between the two sides," he said.
"The Israeli authorities demolished about 20 Palestinian shops in the Shu'fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem last week, and the European Union strongly opposes the illegal Israeli settlement policy under international law and the actions taken," said Maja Kusigansik, spokeswoman for the EU's High Representative for European Foreign and Security Policy. In this context, such as forced transfer, evictions and demolitions. "