Weekly Report of OIC on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians

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The Occupation Turns Northern Gaza into an Inferno to expel its Residents to the Center and South 

Jeddah, 10 December, 2024 - The Israeli occupation forces have adopted a cumulative escalation policy since October 2023, aiming to turn the Gaza Strip into an inferno unfit for living by destroying infrastructure and service centers, preventing the entry of aid, bombing bakeries, disabling and evacuating hospitals, among other war crimes. Such crimes crowd nearly two million people, most of whom are displaced, into an extremely narrow area, making it a repellent area that pushes its residents to voluntary migration.

In the past seven days, December 3-9, 2024, the OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians documented a large number of crimes committed by Israel, the occupying power, through the bombing and storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital and forcing its staff to leave, including Indonesian doctors. The forces also besieged the Indonesian hospital and demolished its outer wall, while Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia camp was subjected to artillery shelling, thus disabling all hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip in Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun. The massacres of the occupation forces targeted Palestinians in shelters in Jabalia, Al-Bureij, Al-Nuseirat, and Al-Mawasi. The occupation forces also dug up a cemetery in Jabalia in search of the bodies of Israeli prisoners, and evacuated areas in Beit Lahia. During the mentioned period, the Observatory recorded 293 martyrs in the Gaza Strip, and 7 others in the West Bank, in addition to 800 wounded Palestinians. The total number of massacres over the course of one week only was 24 massacres, while the number of martyrs from October 7, 2023, to December 7, 2024, was 45,470 martyrs, and 112,226 wounded.

On the other hand, Israel, the occupying power, transferred its declared war on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from within the Palestinian territories to several cities in the world by continuing the misleading campaign through paid advertisements in the streets of those cities aimed at tarnishing UNRWA's reputation, calling for its dismantling and accusing it of “terrorism”. UNRWA demanded through its website to stop and hold accountable those responsible for this misleading campaign.

In occupied Jerusalem, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was subjected to daily Israeli raids, while the occupation forces demolished 3 homes, a commercial store, and four barns. In the West Bank, the number of homes demolished by the occupation forces was seven homes in Bethlehem, three commercial establishments in Nablus, and three barns in Bethlehem. The settlers also burned a home and a grocery store in Nablus, and the occupation forces burned a home and two vehicles in Nablus in an exchange of roles between the settlers and the occupation soldiers who occupied a home in Jenin. In one week, the occupation forces arrested 185 Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, while the settlers launched 38 raids on cities, villages, and towns in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, while the total number of settler attacks on the Palestinian territories over the period from October 7, 2023, to November 30, 2024, amounted to 2621 attacks, with the peak of these attacks in October 2023 with 343 attacks, and October 2024 came second with 251 attacks and May 2024 third with 225 attacks, while the villages of Nablus city were the most exposed to these attacks with 602 attacks during the mentioned period, followed by the towns of Al-Khalil with 592 attacks, and the villages of Ramallah third with 330 attacks. 

As for the period between December 3-9, 2024, the number of settlement activities was 6 activities ranging from setting up mobile homes and tents on Palestinian lands in Ramallah and Nablus or plowing, planting, and installing barbed wire around other lands with the aim of seizing them in Al-Khalil, Tubas and Jericho.

With regard to the crimes of the occupation forces, they killed an elderly Palestinian after being severely beaten, confiscated his car in Nablus, stormed two schools in the villages of Bardala and Barziq in Tubas and the Arab Specialized Hospital in Nablus, prevented Palestinian farmers from plowing their land, confiscated their agricultural equipment and cut the branches of 60 olive and grape trees.

Finally, the total number of crimes committed by Israel, the occupying power, over the past week amounted to 1989 crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory. – OIC News