The Public Relations and Media Unit in the Jerusalem Governorate issued its report for the month of April 2024, on the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Jerusalem Governorate, in which it summarized the overall violations observed in the neighborhoods and towns of the governorate.

Martyrs:

On April 30, Turkish tourist Hassan Scalanan (34 years old) was shot dead by the occupation forces, after carrying out a stabbing attack on a member of the so-called border guards of the Israeli occupation forces in the Bab al-Sahira area in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, and the occupation detained his body.

File of detained martyrs:

On April 30, the lawyer of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Jerusalem submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of the occupation to demand the return of the bodies of the two Jerusalemite martyrs, Ali Al-Abbasi and Abdul Rahman Faraj. Al-Abbasi and Faraj were killed on October 10, the fourth day of the war, during confrontations that broke out in the town of Silwan, and the occupation is still holding their bodies. since then.

Until the end of April 2024, the occupation authorities are still detaining the bodies of 40 Jerusalemite martyrs in the occupation’s refrigerators and number cemeteries.

Settler’s attacks:

The attacks of Jewish colonialists and extremists on Palestinians in general and on the people of Jerusalem Governorate in particular are increasing, in light of the occupation police’s failure to arrest the aggressors among them. Indeed, the fascist occupation government deliberately provides a cover for their criminal racist practices, as evidenced by illegal manipulation and deception to provide a safety net that protects these aggressors, as they are The powerful tool of the extremist occupation policy to implement and achieve their goals.

During April 2024, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored about (11) attacks by colonists, including two attacks of physical abuse.

Injuries:

During April 2024, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored injuries resulting from the occupation’s use of excessive force against Jerusalemites. (8) injuries were monitored as a result of live and rubber-coated metal bullets and severe beatings, in addition to cases of gas suffocation.

Crimes against Al-Aqsa Mosque:

In a clear and clear violation of the sanctity of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the settlers’ raids will continue during April of the year 2024, as 5,734 colonists and 1,767 settlers stormed the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque under the name of “tourism” during the fait accompli imposed by the occupation, called the morning and evening periods, with strict protection from the occupation police, during which they performed prayers. Talmudic.

The beginning of April coincided with the last ten days of Ramadan, and the colonists’ raids on the Blessed Mosque were stopped for 16 days (the last ten days and the days of Eid al-Fitr). However, the occupation forces pursued the secluded people and stormed their tents on more than one occasion. They also conducted searches of their tents, personal belongings, identity cards, and employees. Field investigations were carried out with them, and a number of those in retreat were arrested throughout the days of retreat. Among them are those who hold West Bank IDs, under the pretext of entering Jerusalem illegally.

Arrests:

During the month of April, (118) arrest cases were monitored in all areas of the Jerusalem Governorate, including (12) children and (8) women.

Decisions of the occupation courts:

The occupation courts impose unfair decisions against detainees, ranging from issuing actual prison sentences and imposing house arrest, in addition to deportation decisions and heavy financial fines. Among them are those against whom the occupation court issued travel ban decisions, in addition to extending the detention of a large number of detainees for long months and perhaps years without delay. Bring clear charges against them.

Actual prison sentences

The report monitored the issuance of racist occupation courts (36) actual prison sentences against Jerusalemite prisoners, including (30) administrative detention sentences, “that is, without clearly specifying their charges.”

One of the highest sentences issued by the occupation authorities during the month of April was the sentence issued against the prisoner Nasser Al-Kiswani, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison and paid a fine of 70 thousand shekels.

Home detention decisions

Home detention has become a sword hanging over the necks of Jerusalemites, which is represented by the imposition of rulings by the occupation court requiring a person to stay for specific periods inside the house in a forced manner, which has turned the homes of Jerusalemites into their prisons. We monitored (5) house arrest decisions issued by the occupation authorities during the month of April (2 ) including the right of children.

Deportation decisions

The occupation authorities use the deportation decisions they issue as a means to suppress the Palestinian presence in the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Old City, Damascus Gate and other targeted neighborhoods, as the occupation authorities issued 5 deportation decisions during the month of April.

Demolition and bulldozing operations

During the month of April, the number of demolition operations in the Jerusalem Governorate reached (9) demolition and bulldozing operations, including: (a forced self-demolition operation) and (6 demolition operations carried out by occupation mechanisms), in addition to two bulldozing operations.

Demolition, forced eviction, and land confiscation decisions:

During the month of April, the occupation authorities handed over two eviction and demolition notices. The occupation court gave the Diab family in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem until 7/15/2024 to vacate their homes and displace them from them. It also announced its intention to demolish the house of the martyr Muhammad Manasra from the Qalandia camp in occupied Jerusalem.

Crimes and violations against Jerusalem institutions and monuments:

In continuous attempts to undermine the efforts of Jerusalemites inside the occupied capital, the occupation continues the policy of closing the institutions operating there and suppressing activities that prove the presence and steadfastness of Jerusalemites in the occupied city.

The most prominent of these attacks during April 2024 are:

On April 1, the occupation police prevented members of the Supreme Follow-up Committee for the Arab People in Occupied Palestine from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque to meet with religious and national authorities in occupied Jerusalem.

Attacks against journalists

As for the attacks on journalists during April 2024, the occupation authorities continued to obstruct the work of journalists and prevent them from covering the media. On April 1, and in the context of restricting the reporting of the truth, the occupation Knesset ratified, in the second and third readings, what is known as the “Al Jazeera Law,” which allows the closure of... Foreign media and preventing them from broadcasting, under the pretext of harming “Israel’s security.”

On April 2, the occupation soldiers targeted journalist crews and obstructed their work around the entrance to Qalandia camp, north of Jerusalem.

On April 24, the occupation police removed Jerusalemite journalist Saif al-Qawasmi from Al-Aqsa Mosque, arrested him, and prevented him from continuing his work covering the raids on the second day of the Jewish Passover. Then the occupation released journalist Al-Qawasmi after his arrest from Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the condition that he be removed from Al-Aqsa for a week and return later to complete the investigation.

The occupation forces also restricted journalists in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem and prevented Jerusalemite journalist Nisreen Salem from being present in the place, to cover the violations of the colonialists in Jerusalem during the Jewish Passover.

On April 26, the occupation forces attacked journalist Ahmed Othman Jalajel and beat him with batons, causing him to suffer bruises all over his body. They also hampered his work and prevented him from media coverage.

On April 27, the occupation detained Jerusalemite journalist Lama Ghosheh, freed prisoner Fayrouz Salama, and journalist Ramez Awad at the Atara military checkpoint.

On April 30, a colonialist pursued the Al Jazeera crew, provoked them, and obstructed their work in the vicinity of Bab al-Sahira in occupied Jerusalem during their press coverage after a stabbing attack occurred in the area.

Settlement projects:

In its relentless and insanely accelerating effort to impose a new reality on the occupied city of Jerusalem and Judaize it through the implementation of dangerous settlement projects, during the month of April the occupation forces continued to build a settlement road on the people’s lands that they seized for the benefit of the settlers between the towns of Hizma and Jaba in occupied Jerusalem.

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