Aseel soldier - occupied Jerusalem
The year 2019 turns its last pages in preparation for leaving, at a time when Jerusalem and Jerusalemites are preparing to receive a new year, asserting that it will not bring them the best, and that the occupation will seek to tighten the screws on them more and more. Despite the shortage of life and the absence of the horizon, resilience will be the title of Jerusalemites as every year.
The occupation has burdened Jerusalem and its residents this year with more arbitrary measures, which are daily attacks against Jerusalemites, their holy sites, their homes, and even their graves. Hence, the harvest of the most prominent events of 2019:
January:
The willingness of the occupation authorities to build 459 settlement units in the "Kikar Kedem" area of Maale Adumim settlement, southeast of Jerusalem, was the first violations in the occupied holy city at the beginning of this year.
The implementation of this scheme comes as part of a huge scheme during which thousands of settlement units will be built, in addition to commercial buildings, workshops, buildings for public institutions, synagogues, schools, sports and cultural centers, and sports halls, which will be built in 15 locations in the settlement city until 2025.
This violation was not the only one, as it was accompanied by a call by a member of the occupation municipality in Jerusalem, Aryeh King, to demolish the historic old city wall, claiming that this does not constitute a violation of the sovereignty of religious sites, but rather aims to remove an urban, social and environmental threat in the heart of Jerusalem.
At the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the extremist Knesset Yehuda Glick celebrated his marriage to his courtyards, and he launched a live broadcast of the ceremony on social media to document the sanctification of his marriage according to the Talmudic rites.
Also in January, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that hundreds of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem have been targeted for control and transfer to settlement associations, which threatens more than 800 Palestinian families with forced evictions, especially in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
The Israeli media also revealed the approval of the "National Committee for Infrastructure Development in Jerusalem" on the plan to build the light air train "cable car" in the occupied city, which will link the Mount of Olives to the Al-Buraq Wall at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Violent confrontations in Al-Aqsa Mosque between retreaters and extremist settlers who stormed the Noble Sanctuary (communication sites) |
February:
A new gift was launched in Bab Al-Rahma at Al-Aqsa Mosque after the Israeli police closed its entrance with iron chains to prevent the Almoravids and the endowment employees from approaching the closed building, which prompted the Jerusalemite youth to break the locks set by the occupation, and to start in Rabat and perform collective prayers there to demand the opening of the halls to pray, and achieved this Days later, but after brutally assaulting the youth and arresting them in bulk.
The occupation authorities poured huge bases of reinforced concrete in the historical cemetery adjacent to the Jerusalem wall, and the occupation mechanisms continued to tamper with the Islamic cemetery of Maamen Allah, west of Jerusalem, and bulldozers excavated the remaining graves in them to obliterate their features and create new Judaic projects.
Within the framework of settlement projects, Israeli newspapers revealed that the company "Restoration and Development of the Jewish Quarter" is implementing Judaic projects with a budget of more than $ 55 million, and aims to form Talmudic myths in various neighborhoods to attract more Jewish tourists by building houses that the occupation claims to belong to the era of "the Temple."
March:
In response to the Muslim conquest of the Bab al-Rahma chapel, the Federation of Temple Organizations announced the organization of a central intrusion into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque to establish a synagogue within the Bab al-Rahma chapel, and to declare full Israeli sovereignty over the mosque.
On the government level, the occupation tried to impose its court decisions on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as the Magistrate’s Court gave the Jerusalem Endowments Council one week to close the chapel to the door of mercy, and the endowment response stated that the chapel would remain open, stressing that the occupation courts were not the jurisdiction of the Aqsa.
April:
In an attempt to intimidate the guards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Jerusalemites, the Israeli police deliberately arrested everyone who opened the chapel to the door of mercy in the morning, and after the arrest of about fifty guards, the Jerusalem families began to open the chapel door daily to protect the guards, targeting targeting, arresting and deporting the mosque for varying periods of time, and the number of people arrested for opening the chapel door reached two hundred My sanctuary.
Not far from Al-Aqsa, the Jerusalem District Court approved the demolition of dozens of homes in the Wadi Yasul neighborhood of Silwan, south of the Holy Mosque, on the pretext that they existed in the influence of the zoning plan and natural parks. The court’s decision targets sixty houses, whose demolition will lead to the displacement of five hundred Palestinians.
May:
The spirituality of spiritual retreat at the Al-Aqsa Mosque was not spared the harassment of the occupation, which forcibly removed the retreated people, and attempted to distort the scene of Ramadan in Jerusalem by continuing the incursions of extremists.
And by the end of the last ten months of the holy month, the occupation deliberately did not stop the incursions, in a dangerous escalation of the way the police protect the intruders, and those intrusions were a precursor to a huge storm on the 28th of Ramadan on the occasion of the "unification of Jerusalem" day.
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June:
The Supreme Occupation Court approved the transfer of a number of properties to the Ateret Kohnim Association after 14 years of leakage. In exchange, a national committee for the protection of Orthodox endowments was formed in Jerusalem, consisting of the “truth” movement, the Orthodox Central Council, and the National and Islamic Action Authority.
July:
The occupation police have intensified their attempts to circumvent the victory of the worshipers in the Bab Al-Rahma case, so they resorted to escalating their attacks on the chapel by arresting a number of young men and desecrating the chapel.
As for the demographic war, bulldozers belonging to the municipality of the occupation demolished dozens of homes in the Wadi Homs neighborhood on a difficult day for the residents of the neighborhood, a number of whom are still threatened with forced displacement and the demolition of their homes near the separation wall.
August:
Israeli media revealed plans to build 2,000 new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem, a large part of which will be built in the Ramot settlement neighborhood east of the holy city.
The occupation police also allowed extremists to storm Al-Aqsa on the first day of the blessed Eid Al-Adha, and the Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Gilad Ardan, said that the aim of these raids was to try to establish Jewish prayers inside Al-Aqsa, and open its doors to storm throughout the year.
September:
The Temple groups prepared greatly for the Jewish holiday season and worked to mobilize their supporters to participate in the Al-Aqsa raids, as members of Knesset, rabbis, and students from the Talmudic institutes stormed it.
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October:
A large number of the intruders wore traditional Talmudic dress during their desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque during the festive season, and they performed Talmudic prayers at the Turkic school adjacent to the Holy Mosque. The number of settlers who stormed Al-Aqsa during the "throne day" exceeded three thousand settlers.
In response to the repeated incursions, a Palestinian boy carried out a stabbing attack near Bab Al-Sahirah and was wounded after the Israeli occupation forces shot him.
November:
The occupation closed the headquarters of the Palestinian Directorate of Education in the Old City, and prevented official Palestine Television work in Jerusalem for six months.
The occupation police announced new jobs for "explorers" accompanying the intruders and providing them with explanations, and the alleged temple organizations called on their supporters to apply for these jobs.
The announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the legitimacy of settlement construction casts a shadow in the field, as the Israeli media revealed plans to build 11,000 new settlement units north of occupied Jerusalem, within the framework of expanding the Atarot settlement, and the settlement neighborhood will extend over an area of six hundred acres.
December:
Followers of Judaization cases in the Holy City revealed that the occupation authorities are preparing to demolish hundreds of houses in the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa, as the occupation is preparing to establish a number of huge Judaizing projects.
In addition, the occupation has not stopped pursuing Jerusalem governor Adnan Ghaith since the beginning of this year, while restricting any activity he undertakes.
Jerusalem in 2019 with numbers:
Wadi Hilweh Information Center was monitored during 2019:
- Seven cases of shooting and killing in Jerusalem, including a minor martyr, in front of Bab Al-Silsila, one of the doors of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
- More than 1950 cases of detention, including five hundred cases of detention of children, and these arrests were concentrated in the town of Issawiya.
The demolition of more than 170 residential, commercial and agricultural establishments that led to the displacement of 400 Jerusalemites.
More than 31,000 extremist settlers stormed Al-Aqsa until the end of November.