“I am lucky to be alive”: Shoot at 12 -year -old Israeli snipers in Jerusalem Israel’s conflict and the two

East Jerusalem occupation – Pizza box and bullet hole. This was the only remaining evidence in the Hardoub Street in the Shanieh snipers attack on June 16 on the oud of Abu Juma, 21, and Iyas Abu Mufreh, 12, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood in Tor, after the authorities invaded the scene the next day.

Immediately before midnight, cousins ​​or day gathered with family members outside their grandfather’s house in the Tor. The Abu Juma family, extending to celebrate the return of its grandmother from Hajj to Mecca. The family’s daughter has also been largely recorded in the Palestinian national “Tawjihi” exams.

A few days ago, the Israeli authorities placed barriers on the roads on the main entrances in the neighborhood, at the beginning of the 12 -day conflict with Iran on June 13. But according to family members, that night, everything was calm in the neighborhood.

Iyas and Aud were sitting near a car, and they ate pizza, when they were shot and their family members. From 10 shots launched, two of IYAS and UDay were struck, and the blood was spilled on the pizza.

“Everyone was shocking,” Niserin Abu Mova, Iyas’s mother, remembered. “We did not know what was happening. It was clear that there were no threats towards the army (from our street).”

Only when reviewing the security camera footage of the streets on the street, they later realized that two Israeli snipers, which were placed about 500 meters (550 yards) on the roof on the surface, opened fire on the family gathering without warning.

When the family tried to rush to the hospital, the Israeli police stopped the ambulance and detained Iyas’s father. Police accused Iyas and Aud by throwing Molotov cocktails and firing fireworks while the family gathered, and claimed that the Israeli forces had opened fire to self -defense.

Children were initially transferred to Al Makasside Hospital in Tor. They were later transferred to Hadassah Hospital in Ain Karim, West Jerusalem.

At the hospital in Tor, the police stopped again by the police. “How can you shoot a child like this?” NISREEN asked the terrible police. The police responded that they did not know those who shot the boys, and even tried to claim that the shooting was the result of a “internal family conflict”, according to the family.

“It may not walk again”

IYAS and Uday injuries were catastrophic. Doctors say that the bullet that struck Iyas – that is lucky to be alive – struck centimeters of his heart only, leaving a large open wound on his left shoulder and causing great damage to nerves and artery. Uday was shot in the stomach, as the bullet came out through his back and damaged his nerves, arteries and spine.

The Iyas family is terrified that the boy’s arm and hand will weaken permanently, while Uday may not walk again.

Doctors in the hospital told families that Uday and Iyas were shot by “Dumdum”. It is designed to expand the effect to cause maximum damage, and is banned for use in war under international law. Although East Jerusalem is not an official area of ​​war, it is subject to the illegal Israeli occupation.

“What gives you the right to shoot a 12 -year -old child, sit with his cousin, and eat pizza? And make him so that his cousin cannot walk again in his life?” I asked about Omair Abu Mufreh, 21, outside the patient’s room in Iyas. Amir spent every day and night in the hospital with his young brother.

Amir said that his younger brother was a “good child” and “not a problem”, and remembers how Iyas will help him sell the atom in the street. “I’m unable to speak. I don’t know what to say more.”

The next day of the attacks, the Israeli police came to the Hardoub Street and removed the bullets and the costs of the bullets that left it at the scene, the local community members said. They also took the broken glass from the car they were near, and they cleaned the blood that left the shooting. Only one bullet remained on the car and the neglected pizza box remained. “They eliminated the crime scene clean,” Niserin noticed.

According to the family and their neighbors, the police returned to the neighborhood several times in the days that followed, as they wiped the situation. It is strange that they removed the concrete blocks placed in the entrances to the neighborhood. These barriers were forced into the local population to seize a long path and walk on foot to reach the nearby Augusta Victoria Hospital, another facility that mainly meets the local Palestinians.

“They claimed that road barriers are (proven) to control the neighborhood, taking into account the entire war.” Why do you raise them the next day (shooting) and act as if nothing happened?

“Their goal” is to make chaos and departure. “

“Luxor under the full sir, just like Tel Aviv”

The shooting of the oud of Abu Juma and Iyas Abu Moufah is one of the most violent cases between a number of repression by the Israeli authorities in the residents of East Jerusalem, during a 12 -day war between Israel and Iran in June.

At the beginning of the conflict, the Israeli police put road barriers in many neighborhoods and described the residents in the number of night raids in the neighborhoods such as AT-Tour, Issawieh, Kafr Aqab and Wadi Al-Joz.

The police measures after the October 7, 2023 attacks on southern Israel by Hamas, at least two residents were arrested in occupied East Jerusalem on social media during the 12 -day conflict.

The local residents reported their phones regularly by the Israeli border police that were deployed in East Jerusalem, and it is claimed that two Palestinians were beaten because of having content on their phones supporting Iranian rocket attacks on Israel, according to Rami Salam, director of the Jerusalem branch in Jerusalim for legal aid (Jlacen).

Saleh said: “The aggressive approach to the police and soldiers at the entrances of this (neighborhood) is much heavier than usual.”

In addition to the closure of the sudden entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem to almost all who resided there, the Israeli authorities forced most of the owners of stores and sellers in the streets to close their work in Muslim and Christian quarters, noting the “security situation.”

The western wall, a sacred location for the Jews, remained open. But nearly a week ago, the Church of the Holy Try and Maram Al -Sharif, known to the Jews as Jabal Al -Maaba, was closed to Christian and Muslim worshipers. These rules were slightly relaxed for a few days, which allowed only a limited number of prayer. But reaching the Haram Al -Sharif was fully banned again to the worshipers after the American strike on Iranian nuclear facilities on early 22 June, even after a ceasefire in Israel with Iran.

In response, dozens of Palestinian men gathered on Friday afternoon outside the walls of the old city on June 20.

closing Haram Al -Sharif -An area containing the dome of the Mosque of the Rocks and Combat, and under the only guardian of the Islamic endowment that works Jordan-directly in violation of the arrangement between Israel and Jordan, after a series to Attempts By the Israeli authorities and political figures that violate the endowment of the endowment on the precise and political location.

As an older source of the endowment, he told Al -Jazeera: “The (Israeli) occupation closed the Al -Aqsa Mosque to send a message to the Islamic world:” Al -Aqsa under my full sir, just like Tel Aviv. “

It is treated as a “collective threat”, not “legal civilian population”

In addition to these restrictions and measures conducted by the Israeli authorities in occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian movement in the West Bank was severely reduced during the war with Iran, with most Palestinian crossings in Jerusalem closed or restricted, along with many checkpoints in the besieged West Bank.

“Intensive restrictions, raids, arrests, and the closure of religious sites are justified by a security pretext, but in practical practice, these political tools are used to suppress the Palestinian presence in the public space and silence the legitimate expression,” said Israeli NGOs IR Amim and Bimkom in a joint statement “these unnecessary punitive policies”.

“The Palestinian public is dealt with in East Jerusalem as a collective threat,” the statement continued, “It is not like a legitimate civilian who represents an integral part of the city’s fabric.”

A spokesman for the Israeli police did not respond to Al -Jazeera requests to comment regarding the shooting of Iyas Abu Mufahil and Udo Abu Juma, in addition to questions related to the purpose and nature of East Jerusalem restrictions and policies by the Israeli authorities during the war.

With the treatment of his paralyzed cousin on another floor of the hospital, Iyas Abu Moghail is still in Hadassah Hospital, after he has already undergone a series of surgeries in his hopes of not being permanently exempt. He has struggled to eat, drink or sleep in the hospital, and he is still shocked by the shooting and wondering whether he will be able to play billiards – passionate him – again, according to his family.

“I just want to go home, and I can play with my friends and return to school,” said Iyas from his bed in the hospital, surrounded by his family and friends. The screws were holding his arm in one piece while waiting for the following surgery.

“How Israel (the Palestinians) deal with all these measures and violence,” said Abif Tatsky, a researcher at IR Amim, and (Israel) believes that no one holds it. “