Settlement Activity Increases in the West Bank; 1,275 Crimes in One Week

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Jeddah, 11-11-2025 - Israeli occupation forces killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and wounded 18 others, continuing their violations of the ceasefire agreement between November 4 and 10, 2025. They continued bombing several areas in the Gaza Strip, including Khan Younis, eastern Gaza, Rafah, the eastern part of al-Bureij refugee camp, and central Gaza City. They also demolished buildings in various areas of the Gaza Strip, which was subjected to airstrikes, artillery shelling, and naval bombardment.

During this period, Palestinian rescue teams recovered 13 bodies of Palestinians from under the rubble in the Gaza Strip, while the deaths of 284 others were confirmed. This brings the total number of Palestinians killed between October 7, 2023, and November 10, 2025, to 70,257, with 179,799 wounded. On the humanitarian front, the World Food Programme confirmed that the aid entering the Gaza Strip is insufficient to meet the needs of the population, which is now approaching the onset of winter.

In the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces killed five Palestinians, including four children. The OIC’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians reported that Israeli forces arrested 177 Palestinians in seven days, including six children, and wounded two other children.

Israeli forces raided cities, towns, and villages in the West Bank 348 times in a single week, demolishing eight homes, seizing three homes in Al-Quds for settlement purposes, occupying a residential building and two houses and converting them into military barracks, demolishing a poultry farm and killing 7,000 chickens, demolishing five livestock pens and a room, filling in two water wells, and confiscating a car, two garbage trucks, and sums of money from individuals. The occupation forces issued an order to confiscate land in the northern Jordan Valley, in addition to 12.78 dunams of land in the town of al-Khader and the al-Awarid area of Beit Iskaria village, for military purposes.

The occupation forces prevented the call to prayer at the Jaafar ibn Abi Talib Mosque in a village near Al-Khalil and photographed worshippers inside a mosque.

Regarding attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Observatory recorded its incursion by 10,822 Israeli extremists, in addition to 8,704 who infiltrated under the guise of tourists, during October 2025. The city of Al-Quds witnessed 87 arrests throughout October, including 11 children and 3 women.

On another front, the number of settler attacks during the aforementioned period reached 92. Settlers burned areas of land in Nablus, damaged four cars in Salfit and Ramallah, destroyed an irrigation network in the northern Jordan Valley, seized a tractor and a water tank, destroyed livestock feed, and burned two barns in Nablus. They also stole furniture from a house in Masafer Yatta, burned a house in Jenin, and intercepted a bus carrying students from the Bedouin community near Duma village, preventing them from reaching their schools. A settler also chased schoolchildren near the Ibrahimi Mosque and stormed the Ibrahimi School in Al-Khalil. Additionally, settlers grazed their livestock on Palestinian cultivated lands in villages in Al-Khalil and Bethlehem. 

In this same context, the number of attacks on the olive harvest season in a single week reached 33. Settlers and Israeli occupation forces stole olive crops from six villages, assaulted farmers 16 times during the harvest, cut olive tree branches in eight villages, and burned trees and bulldozed agricultural land in three other villages.

Meanwhile, a report issued by the Arab Studies Society revealed that the total number of settlement plans announced for October alone reached 13. Seven of these plans are located in occupied Al-Quds, and six in the West Bank, covering an area of 28,585 dunams in occupied Al-Quds and 2,174,935 dunams in the West Bank. Settlement activity in recent days has reached 10 incidents, during which the occupation authorities announced a new settlement plan to construct two buildings in the central vegetable market in Al-Khalil, comprising 63 housing units. They also issued two tenders for the construction of 356 settlement units in the “Adam-Givat Binyamin” settlement, northeast of Al-Quds. The occupation forces issued an order to confiscate approximately six dunams of land belonging to villages near Nablus to pave a new settlement road. Meanwhile, settlers paved agricultural roads in villages near Salfit, erected a wire fence around 2,000 dunams of agricultural land in Khirbet Samra in Tubas, plowed land in the villages of Qaryut and Al-Mughayyir near Nablus, and erected a tent on land belonging to the village of Kafr Qaddum in Qalqilya. The following day, they erected a number of tents on the same village’s land.

Thus, the number of Israeli crimes in the period between November 4 and 10, 2025, reached approximately 1275 crimes distributed across various Palestinian areas. – OIC News