The occupation expands the circle of deportation in Jerusalem

Heba Aslan - Jerusalem

The Israeli occupation has extended the policy of deportation in occupied Jerusalem to include certain villages and streets, as was the case with Maqdese resident Yasser Darwish from the village of Issawiya, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Darwish's participation ended in one of the vigils in Saladin Street in the center of the occupied city; he was arrested and interrogated before being released on condition of being expelled from the street and his surroundings for two weeks and then for a month and prevented from participating in any protest activities.

The policy of expulsion as a punitive approach followed by the occupation of about sixty citizens of Jerusalem in recent weeks, most of them were expelled from the West Bank, while others were removed from the Aqsa Mosque and the Old City and their surroundings.

The Israeli occupation continues to disturb the lives of the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem and pursues them with various methods and methods such as investigation, arrest, demolition of houses, and the liberalization of various forms of violations, and has recently intensified the policy of expulsion as a deterrent.

Cruel punishment
The arrest of Darwish, 37, and his subsequent interrogation for his participation in a protest against the arrest of the governor of the city by Adnan Ghaith and a group of cadres of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah).

Arrested Darwish was from the center of the Jerusalem crowd in a provocative position. One of the officers pointed his finger at Yasser, ordered his soldiers to arrest him, and forced him out of the crowd. They tied his hands with iron handcuffs and pushed him into the police car.

During the interrogation, Yasser's interrogation, which lasted for more than three hours before being released, focused on his participation in Fatah activities and activities, and on the content, organizers and participants of these events.

Distinct judgment
Darwish and his companion Ahed al-Rishq, who was arrested with him from the same position, were released on condition that he appear the next day before the judge who decided to deport them for two weeks and sign a bail of 5,000 shekels (about 1330 dollars).

Al-Jazeera Net continued with Darwish, who is the secretary of the Fatah movement in the village of Al-Issawiya after the end of the two-week period. He told us that the deportation was extended for another month and said he felt a heartache: "How can they prevent us from being in the places we belong to? Where they are steadfast. "

Darwish, a father of four children, has affected his daily life. Saladin Street is a commercial center in the city, with shops on both sides of the street.

Also, some Palestinian institutions occupy a place among the buildings of the street, including the Jerusalem Electricity Company, which was arrested by Darwish from the stand in front of it.

Yasir says that he had been removed from the street when he arrived. He had bought many of his family's necessities from the shops there. He could no longer review the electricity company to conduct transactions or to charge electricity to his home. He also reduced the number of times he went to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The use of the expulsion penalty has been used as a policy of oppressing Jerusalemites since the Palestinian protests in Jerusalem over the American recognition of the occupied city as the capital of the occupation state last year.

Punitive action
And expulsion as a punitive effect has psychological and social repercussions, and explains the lecturer at the University of Jerusalem, Dr. Samir Shukair how to be one form of oppression and humiliation, especially that it distances the person from his family and the place to which he belongs, while together constitute the psychological housing of man.

According to Choucair, no one will be able to predict the reaction of the offender to deportation, and indicates that it may be violent and towards the penalty or any other party related to it.

He explains how the alien feels alienated from the expulsion as a painful punishment coupled with injustice, and may reach a stage in which he doubts his national behavior for which he is far away. He practices self-sufficiency on himself, especially if his family is affected by punishment; he generates frustration and anxiety and may move away from the act of exclusion And other activities.