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<h1 id="reader-title">Facts on Al-Aqsa Uprising: Arrest,
Collective Punishment and Extrajudicial Killing</h1>
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<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">On 14/7/2017, three
Palestinians, Muhammad Jabarin (30 years old), Ahmad
Jabarin (20 years) and Muhammad Jabarin (19 years),
from the village of Umm al-Fahm in the occupied
territories, carried out an attack that resulted in
the death of two Israeli policemen at the entrances
to Al-Aqsa Mosque. As a result, Israeli occupation
forces imposed collective punitive measures on all
Palestinians by prohibiting them from attending
prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, unless they pass through
the electronic gates set up before the mosque which
is an unacceptable practice for all Palestinians. To
protest such escalatory measures, Palestinians have
been praying outside Al Aqsa mosque, near the
electric gates. Furthermore, the IOF continued to
impose closures on the Old City of Jerusalem and
around Al-Aqsa Mosque by installing barriers at
their entrances, and prevented citizens from
entering the Old City. The policy of collective
punishment practiced by the Israeli occupation is a
violation of most basic and internationally
recognized rights, including the right to freedom of
religion, the right to freedom of movement, the
right to privacy and self-determination.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><strong><u>Facts and
Figures / Jerusalem:</u></strong></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">160 Palestinian were
arrested in Jerusalem since 14/7/2017 until
25/7/2017. this number includes about 30 children
under the age of 18. Most of the arrests were from
the Old City, Lion’s Gate, Al-Tur and Al-Issawiya
areas. Since the outbreak of the clashes on 14 July
2017, the Red Crescent has recorded about 400 cases
of suffocation and injuries by live ammunition or
rubber-coated bullet.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><strong><u>The arrest
of political leaders in Jerusalem:</u></strong></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">On 20/7, Israeli
occupation forces arrested 15 political and field
leaders in Jerusalem, including Hatem Abdel Qader,
Adnan Ghaith, Nasser Hadmi, Nasser Ajaj, Muhammad
Abu Al-Hawa and others. They were later released
under the following conditions: To refrain from
entering Al-Aqsa mosque, not to engage speeches and
demonstrations, not to conduct media interviews, in
addition to preventing them from communicating with
citizens who were arrested during clashes.
Additionally, the Jerusalemite activist and chairman
of the committee of prisoners’ families in
Jerusalem, Amjad Abu Assab, was arrested and
subjected to four-hour interrogation at Moskobyeh
interrogation center. He was later released on
similar terms. The occupation forces also arrested
the father of martyr Mohammed Abu Ghannam, from his
house in al-Tur neighborhood in Jerusalem on
24/7/2017and he was released on 25 July 2017. The
IOF also arrested Ismaeel Abu Ghannam, the cousin of
the martyr, whose detention was extended until the
26 July 21017.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><strong><u>Arrests of
children:</u></strong></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">30 children were
arrested in Jerusalem since July 14, 2017. On
Sunday, 23/7/2017, occupation forces arrested two
minors: Tamara Abu Laban (16 years old) from al-Tur
village, Alaa Al-Ruwaydi, 16, from Silwan in
Jerusalem, whose detention have been extended and
they have not yet been released. The occupation
claims that the arrest was made based on their
Facebook posts. A number of children were beaten and
assaulted during their arrests. By this, the
occupation violates the second principle of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 37
(b), which stipulates that the best interests of the
child shall be taken into consideration, that he
shall not be deprived of his liberty unlawfully and
arbitrarily and that detention shall be the last
resort and for the shortest possible period of time.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><strong><u>Assaults on
journalists while performing their duties:</u></strong></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">Israeli occupation
forces assaulted journalists during their work. They
were beaten, prevented from carrying out their
duties, they also had their equipment confiscated.
Among them are photographer Sinan Abu Mezer, Reuters
photographer, and Journalist Afif Amira, a
photographer for the Palestinian news agency Wafa,
and the crew of Sky News. They are: Shireen Younis,
photographer Mohammed Abu Hadwan, and technical
Muammar Yassin. In addition to journalist Rami
Khatib of the Palestine TV crew.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><strong><u>The brutal
attacks during the arrest and extrajudicial
executions:</u></strong></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">It was noticed that
during the current escalations, Israeli occupation
forces deliberately used excessive force arbitrarily
and randomly. During an arrest campaign at Wad Al
Jouz neighborhood, a group of special unit forces
and undercover soldiers attacked a number of young
men and arrested them after severely beating them.
They were: Moataz Sa'ida, Louay Jaber, Amir Ghaith,
Ibrahim Abu Arafa, Suhaib Abu Sneineh and Sa'ad
Kayana. The IOF focused the beatings on the head
area using pistols, resulting in severe injuries to
the young men.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">According to
eyewitnesses, Israeli occupation forces deliberately
used tear gas, sound bombs, rubber bullets, sprayed
“skunk water,” and fired live ammunition which
resulted in killing Mohammed Mahmoud Sharaf, 17, by
an Israeli settler using his personal weapon.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">12 martyrs were killed
by the IOF since 14/7/2017, which indicates that the
occupation forces continue to practice field
executions and deliberately use lethal force against
Palestinians violating international laws and
conventions.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><strong><u>From the
halls of the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem /
Addameer lawyer provided testimonies from
detainees:</u></strong></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">Addameer represented
Ali Abu Saniyeh, a 19 years old from Silwan, who
was arrested on Friday in Salah al-Din Street in
Jerusalem while performing Friday prayers with
thousands of other Palestinians, including the
elderly and children. After the prayer, the Israeli
occupation forces attacked the citizens. Ali ran to
a building’s roof where the press and ambulances
were located to protect himself from the tear gas
and live bullets. Few minutes later, he started
looking for his father and brother who were praying
as well, but he was startled by three soldiers
attacking him, he then tried to protect his head by
bending down and covering his head with his hands.
Then one of the soldiers stepped on his neck and
face and continued to yell and insult him. The
lawyer stated that the beating marks on Ali’s body
are visible.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">About 20 detainees
were present at the Magistrate Court to attend court
hearings, where most of the hearings resulted in
detention extension order for further interrogation.
Addameer lawyer reported that all of the detainees
were subjected to beatings during detention. One of
them had broken legs and another one was severely
injured. The lawyers added that the detained were
heavily bruised and the beating marks were visible
on their faces and most of their body parts.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><strong><u>Hospital
attacks:</u></strong></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">Israeli occupation
forces did not hesitate to cross all the red lines
to arrest unarmed Palestinian civilians even in
hospital rooms, or to abduct the bodies of
extrajudicially killed Palestinians for the purpose
of withholding them.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">Addameer’s field
researcher documented the details of Al-Maqassed
Hospital raid, after the body of extra-judicially
executed Mohammed Hassan Abu Ghannam, 20 years old,
was taken to the Hospital. Hundreds of IOF forces
stormed the hospital and fired sound and gas bombs
at civilians surrounding the hospital to disperse
them and confiscate the body. Israeli special unit
forces stormed the emergency department and
assaulted the doctors. However, about 300 people
prevented them from reaching the body of Abu
Ghannam. During this attack, many citizens were
injured in the vicinity of the hospital, in addition
to the arrest of three young men.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">The policy of
withholding bodies by the occupation authorities is
a collective punishment that target families of the
martyrs and the Palestinian society as a whole. This
practice is a violation of international
humanitarian law as well as international human
rights law including violations of the right to
dignity, freedom of religion, and the right to
practice culture. The withholding of the bodies also
greatly adds to the grief, anxiety, and trauma of
the families who are dealing with the loss of a
loved one, and who are also being denied their
cultural and religious rights to mourn and to bury
them in accordance with their faith.</p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><strong><u>Facts and
Figures in Numbers / West Bank:</u></strong></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">111 cases of arrests
from different areas in the West Bank were
documented between 14/7/2017 and 25/7/2017, most of
which occurred during pre-dawn raids. These arrests
targeted different sectors of the Palestinian
society, including children, women, students and
senior citizens, as well as members of the
Palestinian Legislative Council, such as the arrest
PLC member Omar Abdel Razek. During these raids,
Palestinians were subjected to physical violence,
house searches, destruction of properties, and
hospitals raids, such as the raid of Hebron Public
Hospital. </p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR"><strong><u>The raid
and siege of Kobar village west of Ramallah:</u></strong></p>
<p class="rtejustify" dir="LTR">The residents of the
village of Kobar have been living under siege and
subjected to daily harassment, after Halamish
operation that resulted in the killing of three
Israeli settlers by Omar Al-Abed (20 years old), who
is a resident of the village. Israeli occupation
forces have been storming the village on a daily
basis by dozens of vehicles, hundreds of soldiers,
police dogs and bulldozers. IOF arrested the brother
of Al-Abed and his mother, after raiding their home
more than once. The daily harassments included,
raiding dozens of houses and closing the main
entrance to the village. Approximately 15
Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated bullets
from Kobar and the surrounding villages. The siege
imposed on the village of Kobar and these practices
of collective punishment are a grave violation of
the Fourth Geneva Convention, mainly Articles 33 and
34. </p>
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