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Al Jazeera Window from Jerusalem shed light on the deportation policy practiced by the Israeli occupation authorities against Jerusalemites and Palestinian residents to prevent them from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan, by handing them deportation decisions from the Holy Mosque.
The occupation escalates the orders of deportation from Al-Aqsa Mosque until it has become an established policy against the employees of the Noble Mosque and its worshipers.
Figures published by the Wadi Hilweh Information Center showed the extent to which the occupation imposed the deportation policy. In 2023, deportation decisions in Jerusalem and the Old City reached 1,105 decisions.
In 2022, there were 523 decisions in the Old City and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In 2021, there were 519 deportation decisions in the Old City and Al-Aqsa, and in 2020, there were 375 deportation decisions in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The deportees describe the occupation's decisions as arbitrary measures, not based on any specific charges, which is what the Jerusalemite journalist Ahmed Al-Safadi pointed out, saying that he has been arbitrarily deported for two years and denied entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque, especially during the war on the Gaza Strip.
The same situation is experienced by the deported Jerusalemite, Hanadi Halwani, who said that she receives deportation decisions for a period of 6 consecutive months.
According to Firas Al-Jebrini, a lawyer at the Helweh Information Centre, the occupation authorities have secret lists of the names of deportees, based on arbitrary and incorrect allegations. He said that a large number of Palestinians are being deported without investigation or going to the courts, which is a violation of the laws.
He stressed that the occupation uses modern technological means to identify people who are intended to be deported.
Recently, the deportation policy has taken an escalating trend - according to the lawyer - at the geographical level and age groups, as the deportation focused on active young men, and then it began to include adults, children, and preachers of Al-Aqsa Mosque, such as Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri.
The policy of deportation was also related to inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, but it developed to include the roads and doors leading to the Blessed Mosque, then the Old City, then the streets leading to it, then it developed to include deportation from the Holy City completely.
Cautious calm
Al Jazeera Window from Jerusalem monitored field developments in the Old City, and indicated a cautious calm in conjunction with the continued influx of worshipers to Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid the continued intense security deployment of the occupation forces in various parts of the Old City and at the gates of Al-Aqsa.
Al Jazeera correspondent Hassan Masoud said that worshipers are constantly arriving at Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the searches they are subjected to by the occupation forces.
As a watchful eye, Al Jazeera correspondent Fatima Khamaisi said that hundreds were also arriving despite the security measures imposed by the occupation forces.
Source: Al Jazeera