The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that the Israeli occupation authorities arrested 255 Jerusalemites and issued 37 deportation decisions, including deportation decisions from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City of occupied Jerusalem during last January.

The Center explained in a monthly report monitoring the occupation’s violations in Jerusalem, issued on Wednesday, that January was the most difficult month for the Holy City, with an Israeli government considered the most right-wing and extremist taking the initiative to further restrict Jerusalemites and impose a new policy in the city.

He added that the past month witnessed an escalation of “retaliatory” measures against Jerusalemites, as it witnessed the martyrdom of three of them, serious bullet wounds, the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, settler arrests and attacks, and retaliatory demolitions carried out by a political, not a judicial, decision.

He pointed out that the occupation forces imposed control on the homes of the family of the martyr Khairy Alqam and the injured Mahmoud Aliwat in the town of Silwan, turned them into military barracks, and prevented access to them after removing their members.

One day after the martyr Alqam carried out the operation, the forces closed his house by decision of the “Political and Security Council,” while the government decided to close the house of the boy Aliwat.

As for the raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, on January 3, Ben Gvir stormed the mosque, while the settlers continued their raids during the morning and evening periods.

The Information Center monitored 255 cases of arrest, including “11 children under the age of responsibility/under 12 years old”, 71 minors, and 5 females. The occupation authorities transferred 3 Jerusalemites to administrative detention.

37 deportation decisions were recorded, including deportation decisions from the Old City and Al-Aqsa, deportation from the place of residence, and from the streets of Jerusalem, and prohibition of entering the West Bank.

Regarding demolition, the center monitored 27 demolition operations in the Holy City, 8 cases of self-demolition “by their owners to avoid paying financial fines.”