AMMAN, May 7, 2025 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs submitted on Tuesday a comprehensive report on Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem to the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.
Representing the Ministry at the session, Director General of the Minister's Office Mahmoud Erekat and head of the Public, International Relations and Media Unit Awad Awad detailed the violations documented within the report, covering 2024 and the first quarter of 2025.
The report highlighted several key areas of concern, including repeated incursions by Israeli colonists into Al-Aqsa Mosque and ongoing attacks and encroachments upon Islamic and Christian holy sites, which are part of an attempt to alter the legal and historical status of the Noble Sanctuary.
Furthermore, the Ministry's representatives outlined policies of forced displacement affecting Jerusalemite residents, involving the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes to be replaced by Israeli colonists.
The report also addressed the seizure of land and property both inside and outside the city, with the aim of changing the demographic reality in Arab neighborhoods, alongside an escalation in the demolition of Palestinians' homes.
Another significant point raised in the report was Israel's efforts to close institutions run by UNRWA, including schools, which threaten the educational future of thousands of students. The documented violations also included hundreds of cases of arbitrary arrest and deportation orders issued against Palestinians residing in the city.
The UN Special Committee, which received the report, consists of Chatura Perera, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations (Chair of the Committee); Ambassador Coly Seck, Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations; and Ambassador Ahmad Faisal Muhamad, Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations.
Established in 1968 pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 2443, the UN Special Committee is tasked with investigating Israeli human rights violations in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, encompassing the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip, and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
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