Jerusalem hit hard by violent Israeli raids and wave of arrests

The Jerusalem governorate has seen the highest number of Palestinian injuries and arrests at the hands of Israeli occupation forces in recent weeks.

According to the United Nations OCHA report, which covers the two-week period 4-17 October, two-thirds of all Palestinian injuries across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) were recorded in the Jerusalem governorate (76 out of 115).

During the same two-week period, the Jerusalem governorate also accounted for the highest proportion of Israeli search and arrest operations in the oPt (70 out of 178), and the highest number of arrests (136 out of 295).

Thus almost half of all Palestinians detained in the period 4-17 October were arrested in the Jerusalem governorate.

UN OCHA notes that attacks by Israeli forces included “the raiding of Dar al Aytam School in the Old City of Jerusalem, arresting 14 students and the head of the school, as well as the Director of Al Waqf schools in Jerusalem.”

Meanwhile, also in Jerusalem, “Israeli police handed out orders banning fifteen Palestinians from entering the Haram Al-Sharif/Temple Mount compound, two for three month periods and the rest for at least two weeks,” UN OCHA stated.