Two Dozen Palestinians Were Wounded, After The IDF And Israel Police Launched A Raid In Which They Seized Eggs “Unfit For Consumption.”
Twenty-four people were wounded in East Jerusalem clashes after Israel Police and the IDF raided the city’s Kafr Aqab and Qalandiya suburbs.
Police said the forces carried out a joint “enforcement operation” in East Jerusalem, seizing “a large quantity – thousands – of unregulated eggs not fit for consumption.” Police and IDF troops also confiscated cigarettes, which they say were smuggled in from the West Bank and several vehicles they suspect of being stolen.
Three people were wounded by live fire, three were wounded after being shot with rubber-coated bullets, one was beaten and 17 sustained injuries due to tear gas inhalation.
The raid comes amid a wave of police crackdowns and home demolitions in East Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighborhoods, coinciding with government plans for Jewish settlement expansion in the area.
In late November, Israel Police raided the El-Hakawati Theater in East Jerusalem and dispersed the performance of a musical show featuring children and teenagers. The order came from National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who invoked a law from the Oslo Accords prohibiting Palestinian Authority-sponsored activity anywhere in Jerusalem; the police claimed the event was linked to the Palestinian Authority and lacked the required permit.
Earlier this month, the Israeli government revived a long-stalled plan for a 9,000 housing unit ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in East Jerusalem, to be called Atarot, between the two Palestinian neighborhoods of Beit Hanina and Kafr ‘Aqab.
On Monday, the Jerusalem municipality demolished a building where 13 families lived in the Silwan sector in East Jerusalem, just hours before a court hearing on stopping the demolition. The police have been pressuring city hall recently to carry out the demolition of large buildings, and have even considered blowing up illegal buildings in East Jerusalem, it has been learned.
The demolition was one of the largest demolition operations conducted in East Jerusalem in recent years.
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