OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)
Data documented by Europeans for Jerusalem shows that Israeli occupation forces committed 780 violations distributed across 17 types of human rights violations in the occupied city of Jerusalem during February 2025. The majority of these violations were complex, with incursions and raids accounting for 46.4%, followed by arrests at 9.6%.
In its monthly report, Europeans for Jerusalem recorded 37 incidents of gunfire and direct assaults by Israeli occupation forces in the neighborhoods of occupied Jerusalem, resulting in injuries to three citizens and dozens suffering from suffocation, in addition to at least 17 citizens being beaten and mistreated.
The report documented the execution of 362 incursions into towns and neighborhoods in Jerusalem, during which 63 citizens were arrested, including 8 children and 2 women. Additionally, 18 others were summonsed, and 19 were placed under house arrest.
The report also noted 33 demolition and destruction operations affecting 13 homes, 6 of which had their owners forced to demolish them themselves, displacing 64 citizens. Furthermore, 10 facilities were destroyed, and 5 operations of land leveling were executed alongside 33 notifications and demolition orders against other homes and facilities.
In the context of systematic land confiscation, it pointed to the Israeli occupation’s seizure of land belonging to Islamic endowments in the Al-Suwaneh neighborhood, east of Jerusalem, for five years under the pretext of gardening activities. The occupation forces also notified the confiscation of lands belonging to locals in the town of Al-Zaim.
During the month of February, the occupation authorities issued 4 decisions and measures aimed at consolidating settlement and Judaization efforts in occupied Jerusalem, including the Judaization of a cemetery and promoting two settlement plans covering 22 dunums, as well as the relocation of Palestinian families.
Regarding the targeting of Al-Aqsa Mosque, 4,560 settlers and thousands under the guise of tourists participated in the repeated incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque over 20 days. Ten other central violations by the occupation were recorded, the majority of which involved performing Talmudic rituals in its courtyards.
Israeli occupation authorities continued to implement a policy of expulsion from Al-Aqsa Mosque or the city of Jerusalem. During this month, 88 expulsion orders were issued, including 5 from Jerusalem, 73 from Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City, and 10 from Palestine.
Settlers continued to carry out assaults against citizens in occupied Jerusalem. During this month, Europeans for Jerusalem documented 6 assaults carried out by settlers, which included attacking citizens and assaulting them and their property.
The occupation forces continue to impose a suffocating blockade on Palestinian towns and neighborhoods in occupied Jerusalem, restricting the access of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. They also continue their assaults on public freedoms and obstruct the work of journalistic teams in the occupied city.
Moreover, the occupation forces persist in violating the economic, social, and cultural rights of Jerusalemites. This month, the occupation forces imposed numerous fines on shop owners and issued penalties against them.
Occupation forces raided several bookstores in Jerusalem, searched them, detained their owners, closed one for a month, and seized dozens of books, imposing hefty fines under the pretext of selling books of a national character and inciting violence.
The occupation forces launched a collective campaign against key institutions of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem, following its total ban at the end of January.
European for Jerusalem warned of the serious repercussions of Israeli escalatory policies in Jerusalem in general and against Al-Aqsa Mosque in particular, calling on the international community to take swift action to pressure Israel to stop its assaults, reverse its attempts to change the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque, halt the confiscation of Palestinian homes and properties, and put an end to the severe human rights violations committed by the occupation authorities.
