It was described as the decisive event ... What happens after the night of hot confrontations in Jerusalem?

Last night, occupied Jerusalem and the Jerusalemites did not go unnoticed, after a tumultuous night of confrontations that began in the vicinity of Bab al-Amud (one of the gates of the Old City), and then spread to several neighborhoods, most notably Al-Misrara, Sheikh Jarrah, Al-Tor, Al-Sawana and Wadi Al-Joz.

The clashes left a clear scent on the ground after targeting the youths with water, rubber bullets, and sound and gas bombs, who in turn responded by throwing stones and burning waste containers in several places.

The Jerusalemites capped the night of the confrontations by forcing the police to open the door of Hatta (one of the doors of the Al-Aqsa Mosque), which they tried to close before the Friday dawn prayers, and they entered the mosque with chants, takbeers and chanting.

Inexhaustible tank

The Jerusalemite writer and political analyst Rasem Obeidat says that what the Jerusalemite youth recorded in terms of victory over the settlers and the occupation army and police proves that they possess an inexhaustible reservoir of energy and determination to defend their presence in Jerusalem and their sanctities, especially Al-Aqsa.

He added that what happened in Jerusalem is a pivotal event in the history of the city, and constitutes a victory for the Jerusalemites over the settlers who gathered to carry out widespread attacks against the people of the city, but the issuance of the young men naked taught them a lesson that history will record.

In light of the accelerating events, the writer Al-Maqdisi believes that the situation in Jerusalem is likely to escalate and it is linked to two issues. The first is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is concerned with escalation to escape the internal crisis that the state is experiencing and his inability to form a government, and thus he will push for more repression and abuse of the right of Jerusalemites so that the government is preoccupied. And public opinion out.

The second issue - according to Obeidat - is that the Israeli security services deal in Jerusalem on the basis that “a Jerusalemite who does not submit to by force will submit with more force, and in the context of the ethnic cleansing, expulsion and displacement practiced against Jerusalemites, I think that matters are likely to escalate towards a new popular upsurge in Jerusalem.” ".

Clear message

For his part, the researcher on Jerusalem affairs, Ziad Abhais, believes that there are 3 directions that can be talked about after yesterday's hot events in the city, the first of which is that no one should overlook that the occupation’s attempt to close the column door was the entrance to confrontations, and what happened yesterday was a clear message to the occupation forces and settlers that they They cannot force the closure of Bab al-Amoud Square.

The researcher added to Al-Jazeera Net that "it is necessary to continue the confrontation at the Damascus Gate until this square is opened unconditionally, but rather to try to restore it to what it was before 2017 when there were no four police posts or the fixed steel dividers on the runway."

Abhais stressed that it is necessary to return to the Square of Bab al-Amud as the center of the lives of Jerusalemites, and to declare the sovereignty of their Arab, Islamic and Christian identity in the sky of Jerusalem, regardless of the existence of the military occupation.

As for the second expected trend, the extremists will seek weak targets, such as retaliation against bus drivers and Jerusalemite workers who work in the west of the city, and the attempt to isolate some young people late at night in specific areas, or some families and children.

The spokesman explained, "This is the habit of these cowards, who had an attack in Ramadan in 2014 when they singled out the boy Muhammad Abu Khdeir and burned him alive. These are the tournaments that these people are able to, and therefore they will resort to, and this will constitute a motive for additional tension during the coming days of Ramadan."

The third trend

As for the third important trend, it is the massive incursion into Al-Aqsa, for which the extremists are mobilizing on Ramadan 28, which will accompany the celebration of the so-called "Day of the Unification of Jerusalem" according to the Hebrew calendar.

The researcher residing in Jordan confirms that if the same form of mobilization and confrontation takes place in the mosque and its surroundings, it is impossible for this storming to take place as the Temple groups are planning, and they are looking forward to this intrusion as a milestone in their work, and an opportunity to impose collective biblical worship in Al-Aqsa in the last ten days. From Ramadan.

Abhais concluded his speech to Al-Jazeera Net by saying that it is important not to feel that this is the end, but rather it is a pivotal point and a milestone in the awareness of the settlers and the police, and that what happened yesterday has its aftermath and it is necessary to continue until Ramadan 28, so that the holy month of this year has passed. It turned into an opportunity and occasion to restore the popular momentum in Jerusalem that the occupation tried to undermine under the sword of Corona epidemic measures.

100 cases of arrest

In turn, lawyer Muhammad Mahmoud said that the number of detainees since the outbreak of the events in Jerusalem at the beginning of the current month of Ramadan reached 100, between a minor and an adult, including a girl who was detained for a week and released to house arrest under conditions.

20% of the detainees who were beaten have been presented to the courts, and so far 3 indictments have been submitted against those whose detention was extended, in which they participated in confrontations, throwing stones and fireworks, and assaulting the police.

Yesterday, 17 Jerusalemites were arrested in Bab al-Amud, and the lawyer confirms that the security services will resort to surveillance cameras to carry out more arrests in the city against the backdrop of the hot events.

Will it subside?

And whether the confrontations will subside after the arrests, the lawyer pointed out that previous experiences in Jerusalem have proven that the arrests do not reduce the pace of confrontations, and what is mitigated by the withdrawal of forces from the place and not provoking the people.

"On Jewish holidays and events, the police are not present intensively among the public because this leads to the outbreak of confrontations, and the police know that Jerusalemites go every Ramadan after the Tarawih prayers to the Damascus Gate to eat and drink and stay up there, and the police deliberately brought large forces into the streets with the horse band, set up checkpoints and summoned Wastewater vehicles, and it goes without saying that confrontations break out with these reinforcements. "

Lawyer Muhammad Mahmoud prefers the continuation of the confrontations amid fear that a martyr will rise in them, which will lead to a further development of affairs.