Israeli police raid East Jerusalem Al-Quds

The Israeli police have launched a massive raid on a Palestinian refugee camp in annexed East Jerusalem Al-Quds.

Dozens of Israeli police forces in jeeps raided the densely-populated Shuafat camp in the north of occupied East Jerusalem Al-Quds and arrested 11 people in what the police said was an operation aimed at “putting order” in the area, witnesses and police sources said.

Israeli police Spokesman Shmuel Ben Rubi confirmed that eleven Palestinians have so far been arrested.

Rubi claimed that they have been detained over suspicions of tax evasion and debts to the municipality as well as involvement in criminal activities and violent disturbances.

“We want to put some order into this village,” he told AFP, adding that the operation will last “as long as necessary.”

Israel occupied East Jerusalem Al-Quds in the 1967 Six Day War and annexed it later in a move never recognized by the international community.