Jeddah (UNA) - The Media Observatory of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation issued a report on Israel's crimes against the Palestinians during the period from March 19 to 24. The period witnessed bloody events during which (979) martyrs and (1474) wounded fell in various parts of the Palestinian territories.
The report indicated that the deliberate killings perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continued unabated from January 19 to March 23, 2025, and witnessed a significant increase during the period that coincided with the start of the ceasefire, from January 19 to 25, 2025.
The second Israeli aggression is more difficult, and its missiles target the rubble remaining in the hands of the Palestinians, which makes the crimes of the occupation forces more horrific, thus crossing the lines of genocide war to beyond death. The number of Israeli crimes from March 18 to 24, 2025 reached (3665) crimes in various parts of the Palestinian land, a record increase compared to previous weeks. The number of martyrs from October 7, 2023, to March 25, 2025, reached (51943) martyrs, and (121448) wounded.
In a brief review of the crimes committed over the past seven days, the occupation forces targeted the United Nations Office for Project Services in Deir al-Balah, killing one employee and wounding others. Israeli crimes also targeted the home of Palestinian journalist Hussam al-Titi, who was martyred along with his wife and daughter in western Gaza. Journalists Hussam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour were also martyred.
The Israeli bombardment targeted a mosque in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah, Nasser Hospital, and the remaining civilian homes in Khan Yunis, Beit Lahia, al-Tuffah, and al-Shuja'iyya. The shells killed six children at once, amid a lack of medical resources in hospitals in the northern, central, and southern Gaza Strip due to the complete Israeli blockade.
Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz announced that his forces, which launched a ground offensive in Beit Lahia, intend to occupy more territory in the Gaza Strip. This coincides with the establishment of an Israeli agency to displace Palestinians inside Gaza.
In the West Bank, the occupation forces arrested (232) Palestinians, and demolished, burned and occupied 12 homes in the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm, Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem. Settlers seized a Palestinian home in the Old City of Hebron and the occupation forces prevented its Palestinian owners from returning to it.
The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque has been subjected to daily raids and attacks by the occupation police and Israeli extremists. They continued to impose strict restrictions on the entry of worshippers coming from the rest of the West Bank governorates to the city of Jerusalem to perform the third Friday prayers of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa. They also restricted entry to the mosque from within the city of Jerusalem itself. Furthermore, for the third week in a row, the occupation authorities refused to hand over the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron to the Palestinians, as is customary on Fridays during the month of Ramadan every year.
On the settlement front, last week witnessed 10 settlement activities, the most prominent of which was the Israeli Security Council's approval to separate 13 settlements in the West Bank from their neighboring settlements, and the initiation of procedures to recognize them as independent settlements. The Israeli occupation forces issued a military order to evacuate approximately 120 dunams of Palestinian agricultural land belonging to the village of Jalbun in Jenin. Settlers paved settlement roads in the Ramallah Governorate and the northern Jordan Valley. Settlers began constructing a pastoral settlement outpost near the Auja Spring in Jericho. Other settlers installed electricity poles to supply water to a settlement outpost built on the lands of the village of Farkha in Salfit. Settlers bulldozed areas of agricultural land in the village of Umm Safa in Ramallah, and others erected iron awnings near Palestinian residential tents in the Ein al-Hilweh area in the northern Jordan Valley.
Within seven days, settlers launched 30 attacks on Palestinian villages. Settlers in the village of Al-Badhan in Nablus burned a sheep pen and a tent in Salfit. In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers released their livestock in the Nab' al-Ghazal area, on agricultural lands in Wadi al-Faw in Tubas, in the town of Al-Auja in Jericho, and in the areas of Sha'b al-Batm and Wadi Ma'in in Hebron. A settler ran over a flock of sheep with his vehicle in Khirbet Samra in Tubas, and another ran over a flock of sheep near the Al-Burj area in the town of Deir Dibwan in Ramallah.
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