Jerusalem News Agency - Sources

The Jerusalem Governorate considered the criminal Israeli demolitions in Jerusalem “a dangerous escalation and a war crime, as it carries out forced displacement and ethnic cleansing in every sense of the word.”

This came in a statement issued today by the Jerusalem Governorate in response to the daily crimes carried out by the occupying state, including frantic and unprecedented demolitions and displacement of residents in all areas of the capital.

The governorate stressed that the burdens imposed on the Jerusalemite citizen are unimaginable to the human mind, as the extremist government and all its security structures inflict the worst types of torture on the Jerusalemites. On the one hand, they prevent and do not grant building permits, and they pursue the Jerusalemite citizen for months and years from the moment he builds his house, by imposing fines starting in the tens of thousands. It amounts to hundreds of thousands and millions of shekels, and then the demolition massacre is carried out and the owner of the house is forced to pay his fine, and later a fine is imposed on him for removing the backfill and then the cost of demolition, which also amounts to very large sums. The governorate added in its statement, “The occupation government is creative in inventing what is exhausting.” The Jerusalemite citizen to push the Jerusalemites to think about leaving their city, and this will not happen.” She said: “The matter requires exerting all possible efforts at all levels to develop a strategy that strengthens the steadfastness of the Jerusalemite citizen and rises to the level of the challenge he faces in the face of this criminal machine.”

In its statement, the governorate warned against the militarization of the city and the spread of arbitrary checkpoints that terrorize and oppress everyone in Jerusalem, and the daily abuse of young men, women, the elderly, and the sick Palestinians in Jerusalem, especially what is happening at the apartheid occupation checkpoints in the Shuafat and Qalandiya camps, including beatings, humiliation, oppression, and forcing them to take off their clothes, etc. .

In its statement, the Governorate held the Israeli government, the occupying power, fully and directly responsible for the results and repercussions of this crime, as it is a blatant violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions and signed agreements. The Governorate considered that the international community and the European Union’s sufficiency of statements of condemnation and condemnation of the demolitions of homes and buildings is insufficient and does not constitute real pressure on the authorities. The occupation to stop this crime. She said: “What is required is to hold the leaders of the Israeli crime in the occupation government accountable for their grave violations of international legitimacy, its resolutions, and international humanitarian law,” stressing that the occupying state cannot remain above international law without accountability, considering that Israel, the occupying power, escapes punishment every time it commits a crime. These crimes are what made it persist in its crimes and persecution of our people in Jerusalem and the rest of the Palestinian territories.

The governorate said in its statement: “The statements of the extremist boys in the occupation government are official incitement to escalate the open war against the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem, and a license to continue chasing and prosecuting this presence, and the continuation of these criminal operations has repercussions, and the occupation alone bears its consequences.”

The governorate concluded its statement by offering salutes, honor and honor to our people and the sons of our people in the occupied capital who are defending their land, their survival in it and their sanctities with precious and precious things as they confront the Zionist machine of crime and oppression. It added that the scenes of pride and pride that the masses of our people have recorded in the towns, neighborhoods, camps, countryside and desert of Jerusalem call for pride, pride and pride. Especially in the Old City, Silwan, Jabal Mukaber, Bashir Neighborhood, Al-Issawiya, the Shuafat and Qalandia camps, the Mount of Olives, and the villages northwest, northeast, and south of the city, who are consolidating lessons and lessons every day in confronting with bare chests the daily crimes of the occupation and defending the honor of the Arab and Islamic nation, out of their belief in the justice of their cause and their right to freedom and independence. They are the field commanders, the city's guard, and its first line of defense.