The Palestinian authorities of East Jerusalem denounced in the early hours of this Friday that more than fifty Palestinians were injured and about 60 were arrested in a raid, carried out by Israeli military forces in a refugee camp and in the town of Kafr Aqab.
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“The Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Qalandiya camp and the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem, after a two-day military offensive that left dozens injured and detained, and caused significant damage to public and private property,” denounced the Jerusalem Governorate on social media.
According to data collected by the authorities, “the medical teams of the Palestinian Red Crescent attended a total of 51 cases from the beginning of the aggression until the withdrawal of the occupation forces”.
This figure includes “38 injured by beatings who were transferred to hospitals, six injured by beatings treated on site, one injured by rubber bullet, and six cases of tear gas inhalation.”
“The occupation forces also carried out a wide campaign of arrests and investigations on the ground, with more than 60 Palestinians arrested, detained, or interrogated since the beginning of the aggression,” the entity added.
Similarly, the Governorate denounced that the arrests also targeted “family members of prisoners and martyrs, as part of the collective punishment policy,” and that “among those arrested were children and women, and the actual number is likely higher.”
It also accused that “the attacks have extended to public and private property”: “The occupation forces demolished seven shops near the Qalandiya military checkpoint, in addition to demolishing a car wash, razing the yard of a house, and destroying the contents of dozens of homes during the search operations,” it asserted, then denounced looting in the homes of Palestinian families residing in the area.
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“The Jerusalem Governorate states that the facts on the ground have refuted the Israeli version, which tried to justify the aggression under the pretext of pursuing the alleged ‘terrorist infrastructure’,” says the statement in which the administration argues that, “on the contrary, the facts show that the goal was to subdue and terrorize the population and impose military control over the camp.”
The authorities framed the actions of the Israeli forces against the backdrop of “a series of important colonial projects aimed at reconfiguring the geographic and demographic map of the city.”
This includes a plan for “the construction of between 7,000 and 9,000 housing units” in a settlement in Qalandiya, the establishment of a military court, and the construction of a road that “connects northern Jerusalem with the heart of the territories occupied in 1948 and runs alongside the Qalandiya camp,” among others.
“The Jerusalem Governorate indicates that the imposition of a new military reality in the area seeks to create the security environment necessary to accelerate the execution of these projects and consolidate colonial control over the northern part of the city,” it denounced.
The text also warned of “a policy aimed at imposing new realities on the ground, in preparation for the annexation and isolation of the city from its Palestinian surroundings.”
Therefore, it called on “the international community and the United Nations to fulfill their legal and humanitarian responsibilities, take immediate measures to stop these policies, hold the occupation accountable for the serious violations committed against the civilian population, and guarantee the international protection of the Palestinian people and their national institutions in occupied Jerusalem.”
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