The Israeli Forces Demolish 16 Houses, and Settlers Raid West Bank Villages 64 Times in a Week
July 9, 2024
The suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is worsening as they depend on the remaining infrastructure of their destroyed cities because of the Israeli war. The health sector has almost collapsed after the closure of the “European” hospital in Khan Yunis and the warnings that the “Nasser Medical Complex” will follow suit, and the evacuation of the “al-Ahli-al-Arabi” hospital in central Gaza.
Meanwhile, the genocide process continues in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli occupation forces killed 20 Palestinians last week in the Nuseirat camp massacre and wounded 75 others, at a school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA). The UNRWA school was sheltering displaced people in central Gaza City and it was targeted for the third time.
The weekly report of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Media Observatory on Israel’s Crimes against the Palestinians, covering 2 – 8 July 2024, documented the murdering of 235 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in addition to 17 Palestinians in the West Bank, and the injury of 729 Palestinians, bringing the total murdered since October 7, 2023, until July 8, 2024, to 38,763 Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the Regional Office for Arab States of the U.N. Development Programme, said that the cost of rebuilding the Gaza Strip amounts to 50 billion dollars, while Abdullah Al-Dardari, Assistant Secretary-General of the U.N., stated on May 3, 2024, that the cost may reach 40 billion dollars, reflecting an increase of $10 billion in just three months due to extensive destruction.
In occupied al-Quds, Jewish extremists stormed the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque on a daily basis, while attacks by herds of settlers in the towns and villages of the West Bank reached 64 attacks, one of which included burning aid that was heading to the Gaza Strip, burning barns, bulldozing agricultural lands, and uprooting olive trees on agricultural lands belonging to Palestinians in the villages of Ramallah, Jenin, Nablus, Hebron, Jericho, and Bethlehem.
The settlers also stole 10 cows in the villages of Jenin and 80 sheep in Hebron, burned Palestinian vehicles, and carried out activities aimed at building settlement outposts in each of the areas. A priest was appointed to expand the “Sidi Boazaid” settlement and build a road in the area of a church in the village of Husan in Bethlehem, and other various settlement activities.
The Israeli occupation forces also demolished 16 homes in al-Quds, Tulkarm, Jericho, Nablus, and Bethlehem, while settlers burned two homes in Hebron. The Israeli forces also demolished a café and two sheep barns in Nablus and Hebron, and confiscated a truck transporting building materials in Jericho, along with two bulldozers and a truck in Jenin.
These actions bring the total number of Israeli violations and crimes against Palestinians over the aforementioned period to 1,755, violations ranging from murdering Palestinians to closing roads leading to their villages.