JERUSALEM: The Jerusalem Governorate issued its annual report on the crimes and violations of the Israeli occupation in the occupied capital during the past year, 2023.
The governorate explained in the annual report issued by the Public Relations Unit that the attacks by the occupation authorities and their colonialists are continuing, under the right-wing occupation government, which is implementing an extremist program aimed at annexation, displacement, Judaization, seizing lands, and deepening colonialism and apartheid.
51 Jerusalemites were killed
During the past year, 51 Jerusalemite citizens, including 20 children, were killed, in addition to 13 Jerusalemites who were killed in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip, and 7 others were killed on the territory of the occupied capital from other governorates.
Colonial attacks
During the year 2023, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored about 224 attacks by colonists, including 50 attacks involving physical abuse.
During the sa
me year, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored injuries resulting from the use of excessive force by the occupation forces against Jerusalemites in various parts of the occupied capital. 543 injuries were also monitored as a result of live and rubber-coated metal bullets and severe beatings by the occupation forces, in addition to hundreds of cases of gas suffocation.
Crimes against Al-Aqsa Mosque
55,158 colonists stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, with heavy protection from heavily armed special occupation forces, during the past year.
Arrests
During the year 2023, about 3,081 cases of arrest of citizens were monitored in all areas of the Jerusalem Governorate, and among the detainees were 318 children and 135 women.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
