Gazans Flee Massacres, Destruction, and Starvation

Israeli crimes committed in a week, OIC News

Jeddah, 16-09-2025 - Israeli occupation forces killed 111 Palestinians seeking food in a single week, out of 388 murdered in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation's Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians recorded 1,859 injuries between September 9 and 15, 2025. The total number of Palestinians murdered from October 7, 2023, to September 15, 2025, reached approximately 65,944, and 173,990 were injured. 

As usual, the killings were concentrated in the Gaza Strip, where Gaza City is witnessing crimes of genocide and forced displacement in the context of the attempt to occupy the entire city. Three schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Beach refugee camp were subjected to Israeli raids. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that at least 2,000 desperate and hungry people were murdered in the Gaza Strip by mercenaries while seeking food. He pointed out that the occupation forces bombed 10 buildings belonging to the agency in the past few days, at a time when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled from Gaza City to the south of the Gaza Strip due to the intense bombing and massacres. 

For the second week of its military assaults, the Israeli occupation forces continued their shelling and demolition of high-rise residential buildings. They also targeted the minaret of the Yaffa Mosque in the Deir al-Balah area, killed an ambulance driver at Nasser Medical Complex, and a young boy at a soccer club. 

In the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, the Israeli occupation forces carried out 368 raids, during which they demolished 13 homes, 8 shops, a carpentry shop, and commercial warehouses. They also destroyed water tanks and three barns, filled in a water well, demolished an agricultural farm, and razed agricultural lands in the village of Ein Shibli and the vicinity of the Deir Sharaf checkpoint in Nablus, and the village of Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit. They also demolished 50 olive trees and agricultural barns in the town of Yamoun and the village of Arqa, where they uprooted 50 olive trees and demolished agricultural barns. They also destroyed crops in the village of Burqin in Jenin, the Shuweika suburb of Ramallah, and the village of Nabi Ilyas in Qalqilya. A military order was issued to confiscate approximately 300 dunums of land in the Sousa area, north of the town of Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit. They also confiscated a vehicle in Hebron and $25,821 from a number of Palestinians, in addition to gold jewelry from several women, 4 computers, and 6 mobile phones. 

Over the course of seven days, the occupation forces arrested 159 Palestinians, including five children. They also murdered two children and injured three others. They raided a UNRWA school in the village of Al-Jiftlik, a school in the village of Al-Sawiya in Nablus, two schools in the village of As-Samu, boys' and girls' schools in the village of Al-Karama in Hebron, and the Al-Khader school in the town of Al-Khader in Bethlehem. The occupation forces continued their attacks on mosques, as Israeli extremists continued to storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. Meanwhile, the Israeli forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque to Palestinians and prohibited prayers there. They surrounded the Al-Mansour Mosque in the town of Azzun in Qalqilya, expelling worshippers. They also raided the mosque at the intersection of the village of Khursa during Friday prayers and attempted to confiscate the mosque's loudspeakers. 

The number of settler attacks reached 77 in one week, including 25 attacks on villages in Nablus alone, where settlers threw stones at cars, damaging five vehicles. They also blocked roads, threw stones at Palestinians, and burned trees near the Yitzhar settlement, in the village of Yatma, around the Awarta checkpoint, near the Deir Sharaf junction, and near the village of Al-Sawiya, in addition to the villages of Jurish, Duma, Burin, the town of Jamma'in, and Khirbet Yanun. They cut off olive tree branches and burned trees in the villages of Aqraba, Burin, and Deir Sharaf. They also burned an agricultural nursery and vehicles in the village of Burqa, attacked a cement factory, and stole a water pump. 

In the context of attacks in West Bank villages, settlers grazed their livestock in the village of Khalayel al-Loz in Bethlehem, the village of Masafer in the town of Yatta, the town of Halhul in Hebron, and the village of Jurish in Nablus. They set fire to homes near the village of Jaba' and to two cars in the village of al-Jib in Al-Quds, as well as homes near the Bedouin community of al-Ara'ra. They uprooted trees in the al-Jizah and al-Manqa' areas in the village of Farkha in Salfit, demolished stone fences, destroyed crops in the town of Sebastia, stole fodder from the town of Aqraba in Nablus, and cut off the electricity line in the Shalat al-Auja area in Jericho and the water line in the Khalayel al-Adra area in the Masafer in the town of Yatta. The West Bank witnessed 11 settlement activities in one week and 93 in three months, according to the OIC Media Observatory. 

The Ariel settlement municipality recently approved the addition of 1,000 dunams to expand the industrial zone west of the Ariel settlement, to build office towers and high-tech institutions. Settlers and occupation forces paved settlement roads in the Tel Ma'in area east of the town of Yatta, in Khalayel al-Adra in the Masafer area of Yatta, west of the village of Rafat, in the villages of Deir Abu Mash'al and Aboud in Ramallah, in the town of Beit Ummar in Hebron, near the Gush Etzion settlement, and in the village of Yatma in Tulkarm. 

The Israeli occupation forces erected four mobile homes south of the city of Hebron, near the Hagai settlement, and eight mobile homes in the village of al-Rihiya in Hebron. Settlers also built a pen on Palestinian land in the village of Sakaka with the aim of establishing settlement outposts. The total number of crimes committed between September 9 and 15, 2025, amounted to 3,239, including murder, injury, arrests, raids, destruction of property, attacks on agricultural land, and other incidents in various Palestinian areas. – OIC News