The youngest Jerusalemite fighter.. Who is the boy Mahmoud Aliwat, whose deeds exceeded his age in Silwan?

Occupied Jerusalem

- Within only 15 hours, the occupation was surprised by a second qualitative operation in the heart of occupied Jerusalem, after the operation of the martyr Khairi Alqam yesterday, Friday, 150 meters south of the Jerusalem Wall, where bullets were fired at settlers in the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood for the first time in decades, and the biggest surprise Omar was the executor;

Only 13 years old.

Today, Saturday morning, shortly before 11:00, an armed clash took place in the middle of Wadi Hilweh Street, which is crowded with settlement outposts, or what the occupation calls "Ma'alot" Street near the "Ir David" outpost, where the occupation police announced that an officer in the occupation army (22 years old) was injured. He was seriously injured, and his father (47 years old) was moderately wounded.

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The occupation police announced that the perpetrator of the shooting attack in Wadi Hilweh, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, this morning, was the 13-year-old Muhammad Aliwat, from the town of Silwan.

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- Jerusalem Compass (@alqudsalbwsalah) January 28, 2023

A clash beyond his years

The occupation police said that the perpetrator was Mahmoud Muhammad Aliwat (13 years old), who hid behind a small yellow vehicle, then about 5 settlers who were going up the street ran towards the occupied Al-Buraq Wall, and fired several bullets at them with a (Belgian Browning) pistol, then settlers responded to him. gunmen, he was moderately wounded.

Palestinian circles prevailed in a state of anticipation and caution regarding dealing with the police’s account, due to the young boy’s age, but a video recording of the moment of the accident, in which Aliwat appeared clashing with settlers, confirmed everything, in addition to the circulation of clips of the occupation forces stripping the boy of his clothes, and interrogating him on the ground before his arrest. .

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, lawyer of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Jerusalem, Firas Al-Jabrini: "Surgery was performed on the injured boy, Mahmoud Eliwat, in Hadassah Hospital, "Issawiya" and he refused to give information about his health condition. /k4paq11WuE

- Silwanic (@Silwanic1) January 28, 2023

family punishment

Aliwat's lawyer, Firas Al-Jabrini, told Al-Jazeera Net that he was transferred under heavy guard to Hadassah Al-Issawiya Hospital and underwent surgery, stressing that the police prevented him from meeting him or receiving any information about his health condition, in addition to arresting his parents, brother and uncle and interrogating them, and extending the detention of his parents and brother. Until tomorrow, after a trial session in absentia held for them this evening.

After the police announced the identity of the perpetrator, large forces of the occupation army and police stormed the house of the boy Aliwat in the Rukn al-Sheikh neighborhood, wreaked havoc on it, dispersed the citizens and journalists who flocked to it, fired gas bombs at them, and continued their siege around the house to prevent any Jerusalemite crowd.

Press coverage: "The moment of shooting in Silwan, occupied Jerusalem."

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Quds News Network (@qudsn) January 28, 2023

Who is Aliwat?

The boy Aliwat was born in 2010 in Jerusalem, and he is a student in the eighth grade at Al-Furqan Islamic School for Boys in the town of Shuafat, northeast of occupied Jerusalem. Verify that the message is correct.

Jerusalemite activists from the town of Silwan confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net that the boy's family extension is limited in Jerusalem, where his father's origins go back to the Kingdom of Jordan, and that he does not have any active accounts on social networking sites, which paved the way for a widely circulated wrong image of him, which later turned out to be Dating a boy from Morocco with a similar name.

The pioneers of the communication sites also reported news of his kinship with the martyr Wadih Abu Ramuz (17 years old), who died of his wounds yesterday evening, which was denied by members of the Abu Ramoz family to Al Jazeera Net, saying that the two young men lived in the same neighborhood only.

Al-Jazeera Net monitored the interaction of Palestinians with the operation of the boy, Mahmoud Eliwat, on social media, who agreed that it was a reaction to the crimes of the occupation, and in response to the conditions of the surrounding environment, especially since he lives in the town of Silwan, which received the highest number of attacks in Jerusalem, starting with the arrest of children and their house arrest. Passing through the settlements and evacuating and demolishing homes, and not ending with the repeated night raids.