Palestine- 29 young men taken prisoners yesterday in J’lem Old City

The Israeli police and security apparatuses continued on Saturday its detention and suppression campaign in occupied Jerusalem and its neighborhoods and kidnapped 29 young men on allegations of their participation in protests and events during the last few days in support of the Aqsa Mosque.

Lawyer Hamdi Meswaddah told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that many students and young men who went on a march in protest of the Israeli violations against the Aqsa Mosque in Sultan Suleiman street last Friday were taken prisoners.

Meswaddah added that most of these young men were kidnapped from their homes in the old city of Jerusalem.

He noted that Israeli policemen and soldiers occupied the rooftops of Palestinian homes overlooking the Aqsa Mosque and its vicinity, and took pictures of passersby, adding that other group of troops on the ground brutally attacked young men in the old city and took them prisoners.

According to other local sources, Israeli police men and border guards raided several homes in Al-Saadiya neighborhood in the old city and handed its Palestinian residents written orders warning them of arrest if they refused to allow the police to use their rooftops at any time.