The Jerusalem Governorate issued its quarterly report this week, finding that over the third quarter of 2025, from July through September, 6 Palestinians were killed, 216 abducted, and 116 Palestinian homes were illegally demolished by the Israeli government. The home demolitions are meant to displace the indigenous Palestinian population from Jerusalem, and force them to leave the city.
The Jerusalem Governorate documented:
– Widespread restrictions and an escalation in Israeli violations taking place in all areas of the governorate
-Ongoing siege of villages northwest of Jerusalem, forced removal of villagers from their land
-About 20,000 Israeli colonists stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam
Jerusalem 10-2-2025 Wafa – The Jerusalem Governorate monitored the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the governorate during the third quarter of 2025, and the violations focused on brutal executions, arrests, actual imprisonment decisions, demolitions, evacuation decisions, deportation decisions, and home imprisonment, in addition to the daily raids on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
*Killings
During the third quarter of 2025, the occupied Jerusalem Governorate witnessed a dangerous and systematic escalation in the field killing policy implemented by the Israeli occupation forces against our people in the Holy City and its suburbs, in the context of a system of integrated daily attacks that include military raids, night raids, and organized chases of workers while they are trying to reach their workplaces within the 1948 territories.
During this period, the Jerusalem Governorate documented the killing of six citizens, including children and youth, as a result of systematic targeting operations, confirming the retaliatory and political nature of these practices: the boy Amjad Nassar Awad Hoshiya (16 years old) was killed, and Israeli occupation warplanes assassinated the freed Jerusalemite prisoner Bassam Ibrahim Abu Sneineh (52 years old), through a direct bombing that targeted his home in the Gaza Strip. The freed Jerusalemite prisoner, Riyad Asila, was also killed following an Israeli air strike that targeted the tents of displaced people in the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip, and the two young Jerusalemites, Muthanna Amr from the town of Al-Qubaiba and Muhammad Taha from the town of Qatana, northwest of Jerusalem, were killed after the occupation forces opened fire on them for allegedly carrying out a shooting operation. The young man, Sanad Hantouli, from the town of Silat al-Dhahr, south of Jenin, was killed by the bullets of the Israeli occupation forces at the separation wall and racist expansion adjacent to the Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem.
*Killed Palestinians whose bodies are being held by the occupation
During the third quarter of 2025, the occupation detained the bodies of the two young Jerusalemite men, Muthanna Amr from the town of Al-Qubaiba, and Muhammad Taha from the town of Qatana. Thus, the number of bodies of killed Jerusalemites detained by the Israeli occupation authorities in their refrigerators and cemeteries will reach numbers until the end of September 2025, has reached 49 bodies.
*Injuries
During the third quarter of 2025, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored a total of (63) injuries among Jerusalemites, including serious injuries from live bullets, injuries from rubber bullets, cases of suffocation, severe beatings, and direct attacks carried out by colonists, in addition to documented injuries against children, women, students, drivers, and workers.
These attacks reflected the expansion of the scope of targeting to include various age and professional groups, whether while they were moving, inside their homes, or during repeated raids on Jerusalem neighborhoods and towns.
*Colonists’ attacks
During the third quarter of 2025, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored a total of 146 attacks by Israeli colonists against Palestinians, including 13 attacks with physical abuse, which reflects the seriousness of the stage and the expansion of the scope of violations.
It is noteworthy that colonial attacks increased in frequency during the third quarter of 2025, compared to the same time period in previous years.
*Crimes and violations in the Al-Aqsa Mosque
During the third quarter of 2025, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored an unprecedented escalation in the pace of Israeli violations against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, as a total of 19,118 colonists invaded the mosque, along with 9,945 under the cover of so-called “tourism”.
These raids came as part of a systematic policy to impose a Judaizing reality inside the mosque, which included organizing public Talmudic rituals, wedding rituals, and provocative tours, in addition to symbolic and material targeting incidents of the mosque, its buildings, and its surroundings, under heavy protection from the Israeli occupation forces.
In this quarter, the Jerusalem Governorate recorded a number of field violations, the most prominent of which were a mass storming of hundreds of colonists, performing public Talmudic prayers and rituals, holding wedding rituals in the courtyards of the mosque, blowing the “trumpet/shofar”, organizing provocative night tours, introducing biblical symbols, and violating private places inside Al-Aqsa. The raids were also accompanied by provocative practices, including raising occupation flags and spreading slogans about the Temple Mount”.
It is noteworthy that the colonists’ incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque increased in frequency during the third quarter of 2025, compared to the previous four years of the same period.
*Targeting Jerusalemite national figures
During the third quarter of 2025, Jerusalem witnessed a dangerous escalation in the Israeli occupation’s systematic policy against Palestinian religious and national figures. On August 20, Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith took office/August 2025, a decision renewing his ban from entering the West Bank for the seventh consecutive year, as part of the occupation’s policy of isolation and exclusion against Jerusalemite national leaders.
On the same day, the Israeli occupation intelligence summoned the Secretary of the Fatah Movement in Jerusalem, Shadi Mutawwar, and handed him a similar decision renewing his ban from entering the West Bank.
Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri, the preacher of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and head of the Supreme Islamic Authority, was targeted by an occupation decision to demolish his house within a residential building consisting of 17 apartments in the Al-Sawana neighborhood, and the occupation forces also arrested Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories, while Sheikh Iyad Al-Abbasi, the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque and judge of the Jerusalem Sharia Court, was arrested by the occupation authorities and threatened not to address the aggression against Gaza in his sermons.
*Abduction cases
During the third quarter of 2025, the Israeli occupation authorities continued their policy of systematic detention against the people of Jerusalem Governorate. During this period, Jerusalem Governorate documented a total of 216 cases of detention, including 15 children and 13 women, including freed prisoners, journalists, activists, and religious and national leaders.
*Occupation courts’ decisions against detainees
The occupation courts impose unfair decisions against detainees, ranging from issuing actual prison sentences to imposing home detention, in addition to deportation decisions and heavy fines. Some of them have been issued travel bans by the occupation court, in addition to extending the detention of a large number of detainees for long months and perhaps years without bringing clear charges against them.
*Prison sentences
During the third quarter of 2025, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored the occupation courts issuing a total of 78 actual prison sentences against Jerusalemites, including 42 administrative detention orders (new or repeated renewal) without bringing indictments, within the framework of a systematic policy of repression targeting the people of the city.
The sentences ranged from short periods not exceeding three months, to harsh and long periods reaching 48 and a half years, against the young Jerusalemite Amir al-Sidawi, with the imposition of exorbitant financial compensation on seven colonists.
*Home confinement
In the third quarter of 2025, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored the Israeli occupation authorities issuing 10 home detention decisions.
*Deportation decisions
During the third quarter of 2025, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored the occupation authorities issuing 67 deportation decisions against Palestinians, as these decisions included 57 deportation decisions from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and a large number of freed prisoners, journalists and activists were targeted, including a number of those who were deported outside Palestine.
*Travel ban decisions
The occupation uses security reasons to prevent Palestinians from traveling, especially in occupied Jerusalem. During the third quarter of 2025, the occupation authorities issued 4 travel ban decisions.
*Demolitions, bulldozing and property seizures
The Israeli occupation authorities continued to escalate the policy of systematic demolition in the occupied city of Jerusalem, as part of a plan of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing aimed at changing the demographic and geographical character of the Holy City and establishing settlement control over it.
During the third quarter of 2025, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored the occupation carrying out more than 116 demolition and bulldozing operations, including more than 35 forced self-demolition operations during which Jerusalemites were forced to demolish their homes or commercial and agricultural properties themselves, under the threat of heavy fines or imprisonment, in addition to more than 77 direct demolition operations carried out by the occupation mechanisms, and 4 bulldozing operations.
These operations include the demolition of residential homes, commercial and agricultural facilities, fences, barracks, and the bulldozing of agricultural lands in various neighborhoods and towns of Jerusalem, including Silwan, Jabal Mukaber, Beit Hanina, Issawiya, Anata, Al-Ram, Al-Qubaiba, and Al-Jib.
*Demolition, forced eviction and land seizure decisions
The Jerusalem Governorate documented the issuance of a total of 291 notifications targeting the homes and properties of Jerusalemites, distributed between 229 demolition orders, 57 evacuation orders, in addition to 5 decisions to seize lands.
*Crimes and violations against Jerusalemite institutions and landmarks
During the third quarter of 2025, the Jerusalem Governorate witnessed a dangerous and systematic escalation in Israeli attacks targeting educational, religious, and Christian institutions and professional unions, in addition to the persecution of journalists, national leaders, and preachers, in an integrated policy aimed at undermining Palestinian identity and tightening control over the religious and civil scene in the city. These attacks focused on schools, mosques, universities, and churches, in addition to targeting union and human rights work, and direct repression measures against students and academic and media cadres.
*Colonial projects
Through daily follow-up of official announcements issued by the so-called “Civil Administration” and the occupation municipality in Jerusalem, and what was published by the Orient House Center, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored 49 colonial plans and projects during the third quarter of 2025, in a clear escalation of settlement expansion policies in the occupied city and its suburbs.
These colonial activities were distributed as follows: 14 plans were officially deposited, 11 plans were approved, and 4 plans were put up for tender for implementation, in addition to a series of other activities that included opening settlement projects, starting to implement projects, registering lands and seizing, and amendments to existing plans.
*Israeli occupation siege of villages northwest of Jerusalem
Through daily field monitoring, the Jerusalem Governorate monitored a comprehensive siege imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities on sixteen towns and villages in northwest occupied Jerusalem, which continued for consecutive days starting on September 8/September 2025. The siege included the following towns and villages: Rafat, Qalandia al-Balad, al-Jadira, al-Jib, Bir Nabala, Beit Hanina al-Balad, Biddu, al-Qubayba, Beit Daqou, Beit Surik, Qatna, Beit Ijza, Khirbet al-Lahm, al-Nabi Samuel, al-Khalayleh neighborhood, and Beit Iksa. Its population is more than seventy thousand Palestinian citizens.
The occupation’s measures began by closing the main tunnel barrier that connects the villages together, which is the only vital artery for reaching Ramallah and Jerusalem, which led to the detention of more than four thousand citizens, including patients, students and employees, without the possibility of returning to their homes, amid strict inspection and audit procedures. The siege also included imposing a curfew on the town of Biddu, a heavy deployment of occupation forces in the streets, carrying out raids and searches, in addition to issuing demolition notices that affected the Biddu Municipal Park, the central water tank, and residential and commercial buildings in Biddu, Al-Qubaiba, and Qatana.
Measures were also tightened at existing military checkpoints, such as the Beit Iksa checkpoint, the Nabi Samuel checkpoint, and the Khalayleh neighborhood checkpoint, turning them into closed checkpoints, deepening the isolation of towns and villages from their Palestinian surroundings. This was accompanied by the cancellation of more than seven hundred and fifty work permits and entry permits for the people of Qatna and Al-Qubaiba, which led to economic paralysis and deprived hundreds of families of their source of livelihood.
The Israeli occupation authorities began in September/September 2025: Special cards and entry permits were issued to residents of the village of Nabi Samuel and the Khalayleh neighborhood, northwest of occupied Jerusalem. These permits will later be circulated to residents of the town of Beit Iksa, after these areas were classified as “contact zones.”
