100 days have passed since the Palestinian resistance detonated the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, after the escalation of the occupation’s attacks in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, and towards the prisoners in the occupation’s prisons, which began the occupation from its first hours with an unprecedented aggression against the Gaza Strip.
The consequences and repercussions of the Al-Aqsa flood did not stop at Gaza and the settlements in its “envelope,” as the signs of a parallel battle began in Jerusalem, against which the occupation began an expanded aggression, but in different ways, while the people of Jerusalem and those with them, the people of the West Bank, engaged in the Al-Aqsa flood, in support of the people of Gaza and resisting it, and in an effort to One of them is to unify the arenas of confrontation in the Flood.
Siege of Al-Aqsa Mosque
Since the first day of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle on 10/7/2023, the occupation imposed an applied siege on Al-Aqsa Mosque. The presence of the Israeli occupation forces was strengthened in the vicinity of the mosque, at its doors and on the roads leading to it, and many checkpoints were erected there.
The occupation prevented young people under the age of 60 from entering Al-Aqsa, imposed restrictions on the entry of the elderly, and prevented tens of thousands of worshipers from performing Friday prayers there, as the number of worshipers on Fridays ranged between 3,000 and 15,000 worshipers, while it exceeded 50,000 before the siege.
Hundreds of detainees
The Israeli occupation authorities have escalated the implementation of the policy of arrest and restriction of freedom against Jerusalemites during the past 100 days, as the occupation forces arrested hundreds and transferred them to administrative detention, and charged others with “charges” related to what is known as “incitement through social media.” Bayt Al-Maqdis News Agency monitored and documented more Of the 1,700 arrests carried out by the occupation in Jerusalem, affecting Jerusalemites and male Jerusalemites, since the beginning of the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood.
Jerusalem participates in the Al-Aqsa flood
Because the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood was launched due to the escalation of the occupation’s attacks on Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, it was natural for Jerusalem and its people to seek to engage in the battle from its first day, so points of confrontation and clashes with the occupation flared up in many areas in Jerusalem, such as: Shuafat Camp, Silwan and Jabal Mukaber. Abu Dis, Al-Eizariya, and Qalandia camp witnessed shooting towards the occupation forces.
The martyr Khaled Al-Muhtaseb began the specific operations in occupied Jerusalem, with a clash with the occupation forces in the vicinity of Bab Al-Sahira on 10/12/2023, while the boy Muhammad Al-Faroukh (from the town of Sa’ir in Hebron) carried out a stabbing operation in the same area less than a month later.
The martyr Nabil Halabiya fought a clash with the occupation special forces in Abu Dis, which lasted for 6 hours, during which machine guns were used to make him a martyr, and the occupation kidnapped his body.
During the temporary “humanitarian truce,” three young men from the city of Hebron, namely: Abd al-Afo, Abd al-Qadir al-Qawasmi, and Hassan Qafisha, carried out a shooting operation in the vicinity of the tunnel checkpoint, south of occupied Jerusalem. The occupation concealed its losses there, and they were followed by the two brothers Ibrahim and Murad Nimr (the former prisoner). In the occupation prisons), in a double run-over and shooting operation in the “Ramot” settlement, north of Jerusalem.
The end of 2023 witnessed the martyr Ahmed Alyan carrying out a stabbing attack in the vicinity of the Mazmoria checkpoint, southeast of occupied Jerusalem.
The resistance liberates the female prisoners of Jerusalem and their cubs
On the 49th day of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a “humanitarian truce” began that lasted 7 days, during which an exchange deal was concluded between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation, according to which 21 female Jerusalemite prisoners and 53 captive Jerusalemite boys were released. Among those who were liberated in the deal was the youngest female Jerusalemite and Palestinian prisoner, who is the female prisoner, Noth. Hammad, from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, the wounded prisoner Israa Jaabis, the prisoner Marah Bakir, and the two stationed men, Hanadi Al-Halawani, and Khadija Khwais.
Martyrs and bodies detained
During the 100 years that passed since the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, Jerusalem presented 34 martyrs, including 3 of the prisoners liberated as part of the Wafa al-Ahrar deal, and those deported to Gaza. They were: Muhammad Hamadeh, the spokesman for the Hamas movement around Jerusalem, and the two brother prisoners, Abdel Nasser and Tariq Al-Halisi, the executor. Buraq Square operation, in 1986.
The occupation authorities are still holding the bodies of 13 Jerusalemite martyrs, including: the two brothers Ibrahim and Murad Nimr, the spouses Muhammad and Wadha Abu Eid, and the 3-year-old girl, Ruqaya Abu Dahuk. Abu Eid, his wife, and his child were killed by occupation bullets at the Beit Iksa checkpoint, northwest of Jerusalem.