Today, Monday, the Israeli Radio reported that the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, demanded the demolition of Palestinian homes in the city of Jerusalem during the upcoming month of Ramadan, while the occupation authorities also demolished today 3 Palestinian homes in the Wadi Al-Houz neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem, and arrested 13 Palestinians in separate areas of the West Bank. .
And the Israeli radio described that Ben Gvir's instructions to the occupation police are exciting, "as it has been practiced for years to avoid carrying out any demolitions during the month of Ramadan - which comes after less than 20 days - in East Jerusalem in order to avoid escalating tension in the region."
The Israeli police were preparing to implement Ben Gvir's instructions, despite the potential cost and the warnings issued by the heads of the Israeli security agencies about the far-right minister's movements in the occupied city.
The Israeli radio quoted informed sources as saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently held talks with the heads of the security services, including the chief of staff and the head of the Shin Bet, which led to a consensus of the security establishment to stop the law enforcement operations launched by Minister Ben Gvir in the east of the occupied city.
In response to Itamar Ben Gvir's statements, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the minister's call as "racist colonialism that incites further escalation of the situation in the conflict arena." It falls within the framework of the large-scale Judaization and Israeliization operations that Jerusalem is exposed to, affecting all aspects of the lives of Jerusalemite citizens.
3 houses
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Jerusalem, Najwan Samri, said that the occupation authorities demolished three homes belonging to two brothers and their cousin from the Totah family in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of building without a permit.
The owner of one of the houses said that large forces of the occupation police arrived today, Monday, and cordoned off the area before bulldozers belonging to the occupation municipality began the demolition process, adding that 18 people have lived in these houses for 25 years, including an elderly woman and children.
In the West Bank, the commander of the Israeli occupation army in the West Bank approved the confiscation and demolition of the house of the prisoner Islam Farroukh in the city of Ramallah (center), and a statement by the army said that the ratification of the decision came after the Supreme Court rejected the family’s appeal request to stop the demolition decision.
The occupation authorities accuse the captive Farroukh of planning and carrying out two separate bombings in occupied Jerusalem at the end of last November, which killed two Israelis and wounded others.
The occupation forces arrested the prisoner Farroukh from the city of Ramallah in December 2022.
Jericho camp
Today, Monday, the occupation forces withdrew from the Aqabat Jaber camp in Jericho, in the middle of the West Bank, after they conducted an engineering survey of the house of the Shlon family, one of whose sons (Maher Shlon) is accused by the occupation authorities of killing a settler a week ago at the entrance to Jericho, when large forces had stormed the camp. At dawn today, clashes took place with citizens and Palestinian protesters.
Eyewitnesses reported that an exchange of fire took place between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation soldiers, resulting in injuries and fainting, and the Palestinian News Agency reported that 4 Palestinians were shot by the Israeli army, and dozens suffocated by tear gas during the Israeli force's storming of the Aqabat Jaber camp.
Local Palestinian platforms broadcast video clips documenting the moment Palestinian youths attempted to set fire to an occupation personnel carrier, after it stormed the Aqabat Jaber area.