How did attempts to Judaize Jerusalem escalate over two years of aggression?

The past two years, coinciding with the genocide war on the Gaza Strip, have witnessed a series of developments related to the aggression against Palestinians and their sanctities, especially in the city of Jerusalem. These two years have seen rapid developments connected to the Judaization of Jerusalem and the consolidation of the Jewish presence at Al-Aqsa, as the enemy's attempts to impose more control over the occupied city have escalated, using various security, political, settlement, and other tools, in the context of imposing new realities on the ground.

Al-Aqsa Mosque and the attempt to determine its identity! The aggression against Al-Aqsa is no longer limited to its near-daily incursions by scattered groups of settlers, but has seen a frantic increase in the scale of aggression against the mosque in recent years, particularly with the public performance of Jewish rituals in various locations within the mosque and the introduction of Jewish religious items into the mosque.

Following the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation, the behavior of the occupation was characterized by a state of revenge, insisting that resolving the battle in Gaza requires resolving it at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Just before one of the Hebrew holidays, extremist occupation organizations called on their supporters to participate in the incursion of the mosque under the slogan "Flood of the Temple Mount," which indicates a state of rage on one hand and the occupation's insistence on resolving the battle over the mosque on the other.

With the continued various restrictions at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque and attempts to target the Islamic human element, two years of aggression have seen an increase in the number of those who storm Al-Aqsa. The number of those who entered Al-Aqsa between October 1, 2023, and October 1, 2025, reached approximately 123,252 settlers, Jewish students, and security personnel of the occupation, a remarkable figure that indicates the scale of aggression against the mosque in the shadow of the assault.

The escalation also extended to the issuance of deportation orders; according to Palestinian sources, the occupation authorities issued about 771 deportation orders against Jerusalemites over two years, including a large number of deportation orders from Al-Aqsa.

There is no doubt that the occupation's attempts to advance its strategy of "moral establishment of the temple" have significantly increased in the past two years. With the occupation managing to reduce the capacity of the Islamic human element to access Al-Aqsa and preventing the mosque's guards from performing their roles, settlers were able to perform various rituals associated with the "temple."

Acceleration in settlement construction The occupation authorities have quickened their pace to advance the settlement of what remains of the occupied Palestinian lands, in the context of exploiting the shift of media attention and international concern away from their practices in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, to push their settlement projects forward.

While brutal massacres are being committed in the Gaza Strip, they are accelerating the pace of approving settlement projects in occupied Jerusalem.

A report issued by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission revealed that the settlement arms of the occupation studied about 355 settlement structural plans in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem during two years of aggression. According to the commission, these projects included up to 37,415 settlement units, covering an area of 38,551 dunams.

According to the commission, the occupation authorities approved 18,801 settlement units, and based on this data, the settlement plans were significantly concentrated in occupied Jerusalem, where the occupation authorities approved about 148 structural plans in occupied Jerusalem.

These attempts did not stop at settlement alone but extended to the demolition of Palestinian homes and facilities and attempts to expel Palestinians from their neighborhoods.

Regarding demolitions, a report issued by the Jerusalem Governorate indicated that the occupation carried out more than 654 demolition operations during two years of aggression, including 436 facilities demolished by the occupation's bulldozers, compared to 218 facilities demolished by their owners forcibly to avoid paying hefty fines and violations.

Escalating targeting of Palestinians Occupied Jerusalem has witnessed an escalation in the targeting of the Palestinian individual in various forms and ways, from obstructing their movement and tightening their work conditions, as the occupation forces killed a number of Jerusalemites.

According to the Jerusalem Governorate, about 97 Palestinian martyrs have risen in the governorate over the past two years, and the report mentioned that 491 Palestinians were injured, including injuries from live and rubber-coated metal bullets, severe beatings, and cases of suffocation from toxic gas.

Regarding arrests, the Jerusalem Governorate report documented about 2,688 cases of arrest in various neighborhoods and towns of the Jerusalem Governorate since the onset of the aggression.

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