05 March, 2024
The number of Palestinians murdered since 7 October 2023 up to this date has exceeded thirty thousand martyrs for the weekly monitoring period of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Observatory of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians, from 27 February to 4 March 2024.
Killings in the Gaza Strip also have reached a record high as Israeli occupying forces have carried out so-called “flour massacres” as part of its hunger trap, particularly in areas north of the Gaza Strip. 118 people were killed in the massacre of 29 February 2024, at Nabulsi roundabout in Northern Gaza. In addition to that, Israeli forces committed another massacre at the “Kuwait roundabout” on 3 March in which ninety Palestinians were shot dead when they gathered with others seeking flour bags, which were rarely distributed in areas of northern Gaza, as well as, targeting a humanitarian convoy in Deir al-Balah, which led to the fall of 8 Palestinians.
During the period from 27 February to 4 March 2024, the OIC’s Observatory recorded (755) martyrs in the Gaza Strip, along with 10 others in the West Bank, bringing the total number of Palestinian victims to (765) martyrs and (1894) wounded. Israeli occupying forces also arrested around (169) people in the West Bank, and the number of settler attacks on Palestinian villages reached around (37) attacks for the mentioned period.
In this context, Israeli occupying forces demolished four houses in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, and Nablus. They also demolished commercial facilities in Jenin, confiscated land in Jerusalem and Salfit, and bulldozed streets in Tubas, Jenin, and Tulkarem.The number of violations in general amounted to approximately (3,593) violations over the past seven days, which included killings, injuries, arrests, demolitions of facilities, land confiscations, raids, shootings, road closures, and attacks on places of worship. The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque has also been subject to daily raids by Israeli extremists in recent weeks, and the OIC Observatory has monitored it, indicating that Israel is adopting a systematic policy of assault on Al-Aqsa mosque.