Jeddah (UNA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes against Palestinians showed that over the past twelve months, the average number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip reached (1477) martyrs per month, which confirms that Israel, the occupying power, is deliberately pursuing a systematic and ongoing genocide. The Observatory recorded (298) Palestinian martyrs during the period from May 6 to 12, 2025, in addition to (1063) wounded, while the total number of martyrs from October 7, 2023, to May 12, 2025, reached (53835) and the wounded (126348).
This data comes as The Economist magazine estimated that the actual number of Palestinian martyrs in the Gaza Strip could reach 109, double the announced figure, noting that the number of those who died under the rubble of destroyed buildings has not been documented. In July 2024, it was announced that 21 missing persons, known as "shadow victims," had died under the rubble or in mass graves.
Meanwhile, over the past seven days, Israeli occupation forces have bombed a number of schools for internally displaced persons (IDPs), including the Abu Hamisa School, which is affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in the Bureij refugee camp, where the agency's food supply building was also bombed. The Al-Karama School in the Tuffah neighborhood, the New Gaza School on Al-Nasr Street in Gaza, and the Fatima Bint Asad School in the Jabalia refugee camp also witnessed the bombing. Furthermore, the Thai Restaurant in western Gaza, where 20 Palestinians, including a journalist, were killed, was also bombed. The bombing also targeted homes and tents of the displaced, which were burned, amid a politicized state of starvation. UN human rights experts have confirmed that Israel, the occupying power, uses starvation as a tool of war.
The occupation forces repeatedly targeted fishermen on the shores of Beit Lahia between May 6 and 12, 2025. They had previously targeted fishermen off the coast of Khan Yunis and the town of Az-Zawaida. They also bombed farmers and agricultural lands to prevent them from being cultivated by burning their crops. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reported the deaths of 14 elderly people due to malnutrition.
During the mentioned period, the occupation forces arrested (144) Palestinians in the West Bank, bringing the number of arrests during the period from October 7, 2023, to May 12, 2025, to (21651) in the West Bank alone.
Over the past week, Israeli occupation forces arrested seven children in the West Bank, wounded five others, and deprived 7 students of education after six UNRWA schools in occupied Jerusalem were closed, in implementation of the agency's decision to suspend its operations. Settlers also provoked Palestinians near the Umm Safa village school in Ramallah, while Israeli occupation forces disrupted school hours during their deployment in front of schools in the town of Hizma in Jerusalem, and raided the Husan secondary school for boys in Bethlehem.
Israeli occupation forces demolished 22 homes in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, in addition to a horse stable, fences, and bulldozers of agricultural land in the village of Al-Issawiya in Jerusalem, as well as sheep pens, water tanks, wells, and seven caves near the village of Ein Al-Bayda in Tubas, and the village of Wadi Rahhal in Bethlehem. They confiscated two bulldozers and an agricultural tractor in the village of Zabda in Jenin, and raided and searched a prayer hall in the village of Al-Rashaydeh in Bethlehem.
The number of crimes committed by the occupation and settlers together reached (2571) in the space of 7 days, and (255763) crimes in a year and a half, as the settlers’ attempt to slaughter a sacrifice upon bringing it in through the Ghawanmeh Gate in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, constituted a deliberate desecration of the sanctity of the mosque, which was subjected to daily raids throughout the past week. The occupation authorities began excavations in the Shihabi courtyard near the Iron Gate leading to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, with the aim of expanding the area allocated for settlers to perform “Talmudic” rituals in the place
Settler attacks accounted for a large portion of the crimes, with seven settlement activities in the West Bank between May 7 and 6, 12. Lands surrounding the settlements of Movo Dotan and Hermesh were bulldozed in the plain of Ya'bad town in Jenin. An order was issued to confiscate 2025 dunums of land from the villages of Sanniriya and Mas'ha in Qalqilya, in preparation for the construction of six settlement units. Lands east of the village of Beit Ta'mar in Bethlehem were bulldozed and mobile homes were placed on them to establish a new settlement outpost. Settlers also bulldozed land in the Umm al-Jimal area of Tubas, while others set up tents in an attempt to establish a new settlement outpost south of the town of Tekoa in Bethlehem. They also re-erected a tent in place of the settlement outpost near the village of al-Mughayyir in Ramallah. They also seized a drinking water well and built a water pool next to it, south of Bethlehem.
The towns and villages of the West Bank were subjected to (41) settler attacks over the past seven days, during which they cut down and uprooted 200 olive trees in the village of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah, and dozens of fig trees in the plain of the village of Ramin in Tulkarm.
Ramallah villages witnessed settlers burning agricultural lands in the town of Turmus Ayya, the Sahl Sa'i area, the village of Beit Lilo, the village of Khabra Abu Falah, the village of Al-Mughayyir, and the village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, in addition to several areas of agricultural land in the village of Burqa in Nablus.
Settlers grazed their livestock several times on Palestinian land, in the village of Umm al-Khair, the town of as-Samu, and the Masafer area of the town of Yatta in Hebron, and prevented Palestinians from grazing their sheep in the town of as-Samu. Settlers from the Kiryat Netafim settlement pumped wastewater into Palestinian agricultural land in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan in Salfit.
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