OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)
Europeans for al-Quds has affirmed that Israeli violations in the occupied city of Jerusalem have seen a significant increase, with 967 violations documented during last December.
Europeans for al-Quds said in its monthly report that these violations were distributed across 15 categories of human rights violations. The highest categories were raids at 47.4 percent and arrests at 15.6 percent.
The report documented 46 incidents of direct shooting and assault by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the neighborhoods of Occupied Jerusalem.
The report also documented the killing of four Jerusalemite citizens and the injury of 53 others, adding that dozens suffered from their exposure to tear gas and at least 34 citizens were beaten and brutalized in the holy city during the reporting month.
The report stated that the IOF carried out 458 raids on Palestinian towns and neighborhoods of Jerusalem, arresting 151 Palestinians, including 23 children and seven women, and summoning 18 others. Furthermore, 28 citizens were placed under house arrest.
The report also documented 17 demolitions, during which the occupation authority destroyed and forced citizens to demolish 14 housing units, as well as the demolition of two facilities and the delivery of several demolition notices.
According to the report, the Israeli occupation authorities seized last month 501 dunums of Palestinian land in Jaba town in the northeast of Jerusalem at the pretext that it is state land.
The report also covered other Israeli violations in the holy city, including different Judaization activities and practices and settler violations against Palestinian citizens, property and holy sites.
