Occupied Jerusalem - SANA
As part of a frenzied campaign and organized terror aimed at judaizing the occupied city of Jerusalem, obliterating its features, controlling its sanctities, foremost among which is the Al-Aqsa Mosque and abolishing the Palestinian presence in it, the Israeli occupation forces and settler flocks have escalated their attacks on the Palestinians in the holy city since the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan.
After more than 105 Palestinians were wounded and dozens were arrested last night, during the occupation forces' storming of the Old City in occupied Jerusalem after the end of the Tarawih prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the occupation forces escalated their attacks today against the Palestinians in the middle neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of the city, and Bab al-Amoud, leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and fired bullets and tear gas canisters. Al-Sam, which led to the injury of a number of Palestinians after the occupation authorities prevented journalists from being there, according to Wafa.
These inhumane crimes that did not exclude even Palestinian children are taking place in full view of the international community, which has been praising human rights and international law innocent of it as it turns its attention away from all the crimes and violations of the occupation entity against the defenseless Palestinian people, children, women and men, as happened yesterday when the occupation forces were massively deployed. Inside the Old City streets in the vicinity of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque after the Tarawih prayers, and attacked Palestinians with bullets and poison gas bombs in the neighborhoods of Bab Al-Amud, Al-Sahira and Al-Sultan Suleiman, which resulted in the injury of dozens and the arrest of others, including women and children.
In spite of all those oppressive measures and racist practices of the occupation, the Palestinians affirm their adherence to their rights and their land, as thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque after the Tarawih prayers this evening condemning the attacks and crimes of the occupation forces and their settlers on their sanctities.
According to Wafa, about 75,000 worshipers performed dinner and taraweeh prayers despite the repression by the Israeli occupation authorities and participated in a protest demonstration in the Dome of the Rock to denounce the occupation's crimes, calling on the international community to provide them with protection.
Several Palestinian cities and towns are witnessing protest demonstrations rejecting the terror practiced by the occupation and its Judaization and settlement plans against the Palestinian people and their holy sites, especially in occupied Jerusalem, where the city of Ramallah in the West Bank this evening witnessed a protest demonstration condemning the crimes of the Israeli occupation and its settlers against the Palestinians in the holy city, in which the participants raised Palestinian flags and banners. Condemning the occupation.
While the occupation forces were storming the cities of Bethlehem and Tulkarm and attacking Palestinians participating in protest demonstrations denouncing the continuing crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people in Jerusalem, shooting them and poisoning gas bombs, which led to dozens of suffocation cases, the besieged Gaza Strip was also witnessing a protest demonstration denouncing these crimes against the sanctities. Palestinian.
War crimes that the occupation forces continue to commit against the Palestinians were expressed by the Palestinian Foreign Ministry in a statement today, in which it called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and urgently move to stop these crimes and hold those responsible accountable.
Amidst all these crimes, the Palestinians confirm day after day of their steadfastness and adherence to defending their land and sanctities, that Jerusalem will remain the capital of Palestine and an integral part of the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967, and that failure is the inevitable fate of all occupation plans.
Fahmy Al Shaarawi