Beatings, provocations, verbal abuse. ”
It seems that after the occupation of Jerusalem in Palestine, every Palestinian man had the experience of being beaten. Samer and Omar, two young friends living in occupied East Jerusalem, couldn't wait to go to the Al-Aqsa Mosque for midday prayer on Friday morning. However, Israeli forces stopped them when they arrived at the gates of Damascus.
Although the Israeli military has been tightly closing the Old City since October 7, it has eased some restrictions slightly on the last two Fridays to allow more people to enter and exit the city. However, Summerer and Omar were unhappy because they were told to evacuate the area. Subsequently, the Israeli ** pushed the two men and beat them with batons. Afterwards, Summerr said to **: "They first pushed us, and then they beat one of my companions with a stick. We used to say, don't touch us. Omar was also so injured that the skin on his leg looked like it had been burned, and he couldn't walk at all.
In an interview, Summerr said: "They didn't want us to come. They want us to run away from home and forget about our homeland. He added that every Palestinian man living in Jerusalem felt a tremendous amount of pressure, but that they had no choice but to be tough. "That's a matter for the army, no matter what they say, we can't go. ”
After October 7th, they're going crazy! ”
Since the Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October, the lives of the Palestinian people, who have lived in Jerusalem for 57 years and occupied by the Israeli army, have become increasingly difficult. Israel responded brutally to the attack, which killed nearly 1,200 people and captured more than 200. In the four months since, Israel has killed more than 29,000 people, mostly women and children, in Gaza, 80 kilometres from Jerusalem.
Young Palestinian men are subject to increasing violence and harassment by Israeli military personnel in Jerusalem. Abu Muhammad, a resident of the old city, said: "After five o'clock in the evening, no one can stand on the streets, even if we live in the old city. "Otherwise, they will beat us, conduct provocative searches on us, and abuse us. ”
Mustafa Karuf, a photographer for Turkey's Anadolu news agency, was also attacked by Israel, he said in the report. He said, "I tell this warrior, you're shameless! Then he pointed the gun at me and loaded the bullet into the magazine. Attacked and covered in blood, Karif said the violence inflicted by Israeli forces against the Palestinian people was arbitrary and ill-treated. "They didn't hit you with the intention of hurting you, or you made some mistakes, just to embarrass you. ”
Karif noted that the Israeli forces had "gone crazy" seven days later. For now, he has made up his mind not to try to go to the old city of Jerusalem or the surrounding area. He said, "It's been a month and a half, and I haven't reached the boundaries of the old city yet." Now that you're going to the Old City, don't worry about any face. ”
A Brief History of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is an ancient city built in 3000 BC, and it is one of the earliest ancient cities. The city has always been a religious shrine, especially the center of Judaism, **Christianity and Islam.
According to the Old Testament, King David made Jerusalem the capital of the Jews in the 10th century B.C. and built the first Jewish temple here. His son Solomon built the project, and Jerusalem has been a holy site for the Jewish faith ever since.
In the 70s, Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman Empire, and a large number of Jews were driven out of their homes. However, due to the rise of religion and the faith of the Roman king Constantine I in Jerusalem, Jerusalem flourished again and a large number of churches and monasteries were established.
Arab-Muslims occupied Jerusalem in the 7th century and built the Dome Stone and Al-Aqsa Mosque, establishing the original Jewish temple, which is also a major religious site in Islam.
In the centuries that followed, Jerusalem was conquered by the Crusades, the Mamluks, and the Ottoman Empire. After World War I, the area remained under British control.
In 1947, the United Nations passed a bill dividing Palestine into Arab and Jewish peoples, but with Jerusalem as an international character"Special Jurisdictions"。However, at the time of the 1948 Israeli Revolution, west of Jerusalem was occupied by Jordan, including the Old City.
In 1967, Israel launched the "6-Day War" and captured the West Bank, which also included Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has continued to build settlements in East Jerusalem, in defiance of international law. To this day, the situation in Jerusalem remains a central issue in the dispute between Israel and Palestine.