The occupation arrests the perpetrator of the two Jerusalem attacks and attacks a march demanding the bodies of dozens of martyrs

Today, Tuesday, the occupation authorities arrested the perpetrator of the two bombings in Jerusalem, and suppressed a demonstration near the Qalandia checkpoint, to demand the handing over of the bodies of the martyrs. The police also attacked the people of Silwan in Jerusalem, after a campaign of arrests throughout the West Bank.

The Israeli internal intelligence service (the Shin Bet) announced the arrest of the perpetrator of the two bombings in Jerusalem, which took place on the 23rd of last month, and caused the death of two settlers and the injury of more than 20 people.

A statement by the Israeli police said that the young man is called Islam Farroukh, a 26-year-old engineer who lives in the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem.

Although he had no previous security background, the Israeli police said that Farroukh worked under a "Salafi-jihadi ideology" identical to the Islamic State, but he carried out the attack alone.

Sporadic demonstrations

In another development, the occupation forces near Qalandiya checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, in the West Bank, fired tear gas and sound bombs to disperse a demonstration organized by Palestinians, to denounce Israel's detention of the bodies of Palestinian martyrs, and to demand their handover.

The official Palestinian News and Information Agency (Wafa) stated that the clashes resulted in the injury of a number of demonstrators to suffocation, and they were treated in the field, while the Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed the injury of 11 Palestinians.

The demonstration, which was called for by the Palestinian Prisoners Club and national and Islamic events in Ramallah and Al-Bireh, started at the entrance to the Al-Amari refugee camp in the center of Ramallah, and headed to the Qalandia military checkpoint.

Families of martyrs participated in the demonstration, including: the mother of the martyr Nasser Abu Hamid, whose body is withheld by Israel, after he died recently in a hospital belonging to an Israeli prison;

due to medical negligence.

At the same time, the Prisoners Committee of the National and Islamic Forces in the Gaza Strip organized a demonstration and a solidarity stand in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross to demand the release of the bodies being held by Israel.

The city of Bethlehem (south of the West Bank) also witnessed a stand in front of the Church of the Nativity, calling for the release of the detained bodies, while political factions and human rights institutions called for a stand in the center of Hebron this evening.

And Anatolia quoted the media spokesman for the Prisoners’ Club, Amjad al-Najjar, as saying that today’s vigils and marches come as a victory for the families of the martyrs whose bodies are being held, and are organized in the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Tulkarm.

Al-Najjar added that the marches aim to "mobilize the Palestinian street, after the failure of the United Nations, international institutions and the Red Cross, to release sick prisoners, the last of whom is Nasser Abu Hamid."

The "National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of the Martyrs" confirms that the number of bodies held in refrigerators and number graves is 118 bodies of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army since 2015, in addition to 256 bodies held in number graves since the start of the occupation in 1967.

The "number cemeteries" are small burials surrounded by stones without evidence. A metal plate bearing a number bearing the name of the owner of the body is installed over each grave. Each number has a special file kept by the Israeli security authorities.

raids and arrests

On the other hand, 5 Palestinians were injured and 6 others were arrested, as they confronted an attempt by settlers to seize a plot of land in the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood, in the Silwan town of occupied Jerusalem.

The land belongs to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, and it is leased to a Palestinian family, which was surprised - today - by the settlers and police forces storming the land, and starting work to fence it and close its entrances.

Sources in the World Council of Churches in Jerusalem confirmed that the settlers illegally seized this land.

Earlier today, the Israeli occupation forces arrested more than 20 Palestinians in separate areas of the West Bank.

Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the campaign of arrests that took place last night and at dawn today focused on the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah, where 13 young men were arrested.

The occupation forces also stormed the home of the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Qaddoura Fares, and handed a notice to his son to surrender, and wreaked havoc on the house.

The campaign of arrests included the town of Jaba in the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, in addition to areas in the city of Nablus, and the detainees were transferred to detention centers for interrogation in cases related to resistance to the occupation.