Jeddah (UNA) – Israel has tightened a vicious circle of genocide in the northern Gaza Strip, which has already begun in the Jabalia camp, which has been subjected to numerous massacres, while Israel is currently subjecting it to a forced displacement operation. During the period from October 15 to 21, 2024, the OIC Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes against the Palestinians recorded 26 massacres, most of which were concentrated in the northern Gaza Strip, during which 316 martyrs fell, in addition to 1155 wounded, while the total number of martyrs from October 7, 2023 to October 20, 2024, amounted to (43362) and the wounded (106045).
The mentioned period witnessed a concentration of Israeli crimes in Jabalia camp, where the occupation forces bombed Abu Hussein School, causing it to burn down, and targeted Hafsa School, which is affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which houses displaced persons, and killed fifty Palestinians when it bombed the homes of the Al-Hawajri family, ending with it forcing the Palestinians to leave the camp under threat of arms.
In Beit Lahia, the occupation forces killed 73 Palestinians, and bombed and stormed the tents of the displaced people around the Indonesian Hospital, which caused the hospital generators to be burned as part of a plan to displace the displaced people hiding around it.
The occupation forces bombed a school in Al-Shati camp, and burned Hamad School in the northern Gaza Strip, in addition to an inhabited house in Tal Al-Hawa, which resulted in the martyrdom of 8 Palestinians.
In terms of violations against Palestinian holy sites, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was subjected to almost daily incursions, during which the total number of intruders reached 3522 extremists. During this, the trumpet was blown twice inside the mosque compound in a blatant assault on the privacy of the Noble Sanctuary, while the occupation forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque to Palestinian worshippers in the city of Hebron to enable settlers to perform their Talmudic prayers there.
In the West Bank, the occupation forces killed 6 Palestinians, injured 39 others, and arrested 146 Palestinians during the week. They also demolished 5 houses in Jerusalem, Salfit, and Jericho, burned 3 houses in Nablus, and occupied 4 houses in Tulkarm and Jenin and turned them into military barracks. The occupation forces demolished a commercial facility in Jerusalem, a gas station in Nablus, and a sheep pen in Tubas, while settlers burned two poultry farms and a residential room in Yatta, Hebron. The occupation forces also confiscated 26.944 dunums of land from the village of Jaba, by military order, to establish a buffer zone around the “Adam” settlement.
Regarding the systematic Israeli campaign against the olive harvest season in the West Bank, the Observatory recorded 37 Palestinian villages being subjected to 50 attacks by the occupation forces and settlers on farmers to prevent them from harvesting olives, in addition to uprooting 27 olive trees in Deir Ballut in Salfit, breaking their branches and burning them in Burqa and Jalud in Nablus, and destroying agricultural lands in Nahhalin in Bethlehem, while the number of attacks on agricultural lands in the West Bank reached 70 attacks, including the theft of olive crops in 3 villages in Hebron and Nablus, in addition to closing the roads leading to agricultural lands in Kafr al-Dik in Salfit.
The total number of settler attacks on Palestinian villages during the mentioned period was 59 attacks, during which they stole 200 sheep, an electricity generator, a cow milking machine, and 3 horses in the villages of Qusra and Jalud in Nablus. The week witnessed 4 settlement activities, most of which consisted of setting up mobile homes and tents, and paving roads on Palestinian lands.
The total number of Israeli crimes during the period from October 15 to 21, 2024, amounted to (2450) crimes throughout the Palestinian territories.
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