Since October 7, the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque has witnessed confrontations between the occupation and Palestinians who are prevented from performing Friday prayers in its grounds (Al-Jazeera)

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- An official Palestinian report said on Sunday that the Israeli occupation has killed 49 Palestinians in Jerusalem since October 7, 2023, half of them children, and carried out 88 demolition operations in the city during the same period.

This came in a statement by the Jerusalem Governorate, the highest official Palestinian representation of the city, monitoring the occupation’s violations in the city since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza until yesterday, Saturday.

The statement added, "49 were killed by occupation bullets, half of them children under 17 years old... and 156 were injured by live and rubber bullets."

The governorate noted, "88 demolitions, 990 arrests, 118 Israeli sentences to actual imprisonment against Jerusalemite citizens, 80 house arrest sentences, and 36 deportation decisions from the city of Jerusalem."

The statement monitored 4 travel ban decisions, and one case of residency withdrawal against the Jerusalemite citizen and prisoner, Majed al-Jubeh.

Regarding the settlers’ raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, the governorate said that 13,120 settlers have stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque since last October 7.

Dozens of Israeli occupation soldiers storm Shuafat Camp in occupied Jerusalem, the birthplace of the Kiryat Malachi operation’s perpetrator, the martyr #Fadi_Jamjamoum, and confrontations erupt with the camp’s residents pic.twitter.com/rfSRsiF9W3

- Al Jazeera Net | Jerusalem (@Aljazeeraquds) February 16, 2024

Large forces of the occupation police and army raided the home of the family of the martyr Fadi Jamjoum in the Shuafat refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, and took measurements of the house in preparation for its demolition, according to eyewitnesses to Al Jazeera Net.

The occupation executed Jamjoum on charges of carrying out a shooting attack east of the city of Ashkelon last Friday, which left Israelis dead and injured.

For its part, the Islamic Christian Organization for the Support of Jerusalem and the Sanctities warned of the danger of the escalation and acceleration of the settlement attack on the city of Jerusalem, “which is being carried out by the occupation municipality in cooperation with the settlement associations.”

The authority said in a statement reached by Al Jazeera Net that the Israeli bulldozers’ bulldozing of the land of the “Friday Market” adjacent to the northeastern corner of the Jerusalem Wall to establish a Biblical garden “constitutes an armed robbery of a historical Jerusalem landmark owned by Jerusalemite families.”

The authority added that the occupation municipality’s bulldozing of the market under the protection of the Israeli police, “even though the Israeli courts did not issue their decision regarding ownership of the market in the invitation filed by the Jerusalemite families, confirms the premeditated intention to seize it.”

This morning, the occupation authorities began bulldozing the land of the Friday market adjacent to the Jerusalem Wall, near the Yusufiya cemetery, before a court decision was issued.

The Central Court recently rejected the petition submitted by the families owning the land, after the land was stormed and closed with cement cubes last week pic.twitter.com/LCrpdYOGi6

- Al Jazeera Net | Jerusalem (@Aljazeeraquds) February 15, 2024

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The same source indicated that Jerusalemite families possess definitive identification documents confirming their ownership of the market, which has an area of ​​1,223 square meters, for more than 100 years.

The Commission called on UNESCO to intervene "and bear its responsibilities towards these serious Israeli violations of the Arab historical and cultural heritage of the city of Jerusalem, which the occupation is trying to destroy and create fake biblical monuments on its ruins."

Last Thursday, occupation vehicles bulldozed a large portion of the asphalt on a plot of land owned by Jerusalemite families, under the protection of police and occupation forces, a week after closing the land with cement cubes and preventing its owners from using it.

After its occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, the occupation turned the land into a garbage dump, and in 2018 the “Nature and Jerusalem Development Authorities” of the occupation tried to tamper with it, but in 2019 the families were able to extract a decision to prevent the works, and to turn it into a vital parking lot for Jerusalemites’ vehicles, before the occupation authorities returned. To shovel it.

Source: Al Jazeera