The Israeli authority has escalated over the past month its collective punishment policy against Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said in its monthly report.
The report stated that four Jerusalemite youths were killed by Israeli gunfire in June while 126 others were arrested during the same reported period.
Three Jerusalemites aged between 18 and 19 were killed on June 16 by Israeli police while a 23-year-old young man was shot and killed in a separate incident on June 20 for alleged anti-occupation attacks.
The four dead bodies are still held in Israeli morgues as Israel continues to refuse handing over two other slain Jerusalemites’ bodies since last October.
On the other hand the report revealed that 1339 Israeli settlers broke into al-Aqsa Mosque over June via the Israeli-controlled al-Magharibeh gate.
The Israeli break-ins into the Mosque had notably intensified during the last ten days of the holy month of Ramadan.
Meanwhile an employee of the Waqf department was denied access into the holy shrine for a whole month while four guards of al-Aqsa were summoned for investigation last month.
The monthly report also documented the arrest of 126 Jerusalemites in June including 40 minors three women and two old men.
Furthermore Israeli authorities tightened military restrictions near Bab al-Amoud area for two days in the past month of June following an alleged stabbing attack preventing West Bankers’ access to al-Aqsa Mosque in the process.
Along the same line the Israeli police detained four Palestinian citizens who work as musaharatis (Ramadan predawn drummers or wakers) in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem for several hours before being released on a bail.
Five other Jerusalemite youths were brutally attacked by a group of settlers before Israeli police arrested four of them.
