 Proceeding down the Mediterranean coast, the crusaders encountered little resistance, as local rulers preferred to make peace with them and furnish them with supplies rather than fight, with a notable exception of the abandoned siege of Arqa.Iftikhar ad-Daula, the Fatimid governor of Jerusalem, was aware of the arrival of the Crusaders.He expelled all of Jerusalem's Christian inhabitants before the Crusaders' arrival, to avoid the possibility of the city falling due to treason from the inside, and he poisoned most of the wells in the area.The crusaders reached Jerusalem, which had been recaptured from the Seljuqs by the Fatimids only the year before, on 7 June.