Human rights group: Israel tries to make al-Quds Jewish by arresting and kicking out Palestinians.

  A group that helps Palestinians says that Israel has stepped up its plans to make al-Quds more Jewish by arresting more Palestinians and forcing them out of their homes. In a report that came out on Wednesday, the Palestinian Center for Prisoner Studies (PCPS) said that since the beginning of the year, the Tel Aviv government had given 877 expulsion orders to Palestinians living in al-Quds. It said that most of the Palestinians who were told to leave their homes lived in the old city of al-Quds near the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex. The report said that so far in 2023, 2,000 Palestinians have been held in al-Quds.

This includes 465 children and 58 women. It says that these arrests make up about 47% of all arrests in the occupied areas. According to the report, Israeli courts have given out more than 248 house arrest orders and 100 pre-trial detention orders this year. These orders let Palestinian prisoners stay in jail without being tried or charged. PCPS Director Riyad al-Ashqar said that the regime's forces had even detained the sick, the elderly, and the injured, and that they had a strategy of "arresting detainees again as soon as they were released." He said that the people in charge of the invading power had searched the homes of Palestinian prisoners violently and taken their things.

 The report also says that Israel's illegal actions in al-Quds are meant to wear out Palestinians and make them less likely to protect their city against Israeli terrorism and invasions. The report said that the Israeli moves are a continuation of their effort to change the religious and historical status of occupied al-Quds. Since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government took office last December, there has been more violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Since the beginning of this year, the usurping government has killed more than 200 Palestinians.