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Watan: Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation authorities seized the funds of a number of Jerusalemite prisoners and liberated prisoners and their families under the pretext of receiving funds from the Palestinian National Authority.

The occupation authorities seized an amount of 120,000 shekels from the bank account of the freed prisoner Iman Al-A'war and her son Muhammad. They also seized an amount of 113,000 shekels from the account of the mother of the freed prisoner Suhaib Al-A'war and her son Suhaib, in addition to closing their bank accounts, by informing the family by message via an application. "WhatsApp".

The occupation forces raided dozens of homes of prisoners and freed prisoners in occupied Jerusalem, seized money and valuables, and seized the bank accounts of the prisoners’ families.

This attack on the prisoners and their families comes after the decision of the so-called Minister of National Security in the extremist Israeli occupation government, Itamar Ben Gvir, and the Minister of Finance in the extremist occupation government, Bezalel Smotrich, to seize the funds of 87 prisoners and freed prisoners from occupied Jerusalem.

The head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Qaddoura Fares, said, “The right-wing fascist Israeli government is launching an unprecedented aggression against our people in Jerusalem that affects everything.”

In a press statement today, Thursday, Fares described the ongoing persecution of the families of prisoners and ex-husbands, and the seizure of millions of shekels of their money under the pretext of receiving allocations from the Palestinian National Authority, as a renewed catastrophe, which the occupation is implementing with modern tools, which it has tried to effectively consolidate for years, until it The government led by extremist Minister Ben Gvir came to power until it reached its peak.

He explained that the current occupation government is continuing a new, old policy aimed at fighting the Palestinian presence and displacing our people in Jerusalem, which has reached its maximum extent, with what Al-Maqdisi faces in terms of abuse, seizure, persecution, arrest, harassment, theft, field executions, demolition of homes, and imposition of... Millions of shekels in fines are imposed on families in various forms in the form of “financial fines,” “compensations,” and “taxes,” in addition to a number of racist laws, the latest of which is the ratification of the law withdrawing residency and citizenship from Jerusalemites and from Palestinians inside the 1948 territories.

He continued: “Ben Ghafir believes delusively that it is possible to subjugate and silence the Jerusalemite citizen, and prevent him from standing up to his racist and fascist measures, and in an attempt to satisfy the lust of the extremists,” stressing that “these measures will be a prelude to a major confrontation to come, which coincides with the escalation of aggression against prisoners inside the prisons.” .

It is noteworthy that the policy of seizing the funds of Jerusalemite prisoners and liberated prisoners was invented by the occupation several years ago, and affected hundreds of prisoners, their families, freed persons and their families, in addition to seizing property, sums of money, and gold jewelry from their homes.