The Occupation Forces Demolish Dozens of Homes and Facilities in the West Bank
30 July 2024
Israel is waging a war on international organizations in parallel with its war on Gaza, which completed its ninth month at the end of July 2024. A list can be drawn up of settler attacks on aid convoys for the people of Gaza and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)’s headquarters in al-Quds, in addition to the Israeli Knesset’s decision to consider the (UNRWA) a terrorist organization. The Executive Director of UNICEF indicated that at least 278 relief workers were murdered in the Gaza Strip, others were injured, and other workers were prevented from performing their work.
During the period running from 23 to 29 July 2024, (24) massacres were committed, the most severe cases of which was (30) murdered and more than (100) others were injured in the bombing of the Khadija School in Deir al-Balah, which is considered the most crowded school with displaced people.
The OIC’s media observatory for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians recorded (371) murdered Palestinians during the aforementioned period, and (1,159) others were injured, while the murdered toll from 7 October 2023 until 29 July amounted to (39,324).
Israel has not only been committing daily crimes of genocide, but has also deliberately exhausted Palestinian civilians and pushed them to move from one area to another, constantly on the run. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 9% of the population of the Gaza Strip were displaced during the past week alone due to the orders of the occupation forces, while the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, said that 86% of the people of the Gaza Strip are frequently subjected to Israeli evacuation orders.
This miserable situation has worsened with the Palestinian Ministry of Health announcing that the Gaza Strip has become an area infected with polio.
In the West Bank and al-Quds, 14 Palestinians were murdered in the last quarter of July, and Jewish extremists stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque on an almost daily basis, while herds of settlers attacked Palestinian villages and towns 41 times in one week. The occupation forces arrested (164) Palestinians during the same period.
During this period, the Israeli occupation forces demolished (22) Palestinian homes in neighborhoods in occupied al-Quds, Bethlehem, Tulkarm, Hebron, and Jericho. A wedding hall, two commercial offices, and a livestock barn were also demolished in al-Quds, in addition to barns and other commercial facilities in Jericho. Settlers also burned two vehicle sheds in Nablus and Hebron, and a number of barracks, while commercial shops in the Ain al-Loza neighborhood in the town of Silwan in al-Quds are at risk of demolition under the pretext of lack of licenses.
The occupation forces bulldozed streets in the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm, Qalqilya, and Salfit, and agricultural lands in Bethlehem. The settlers also burned agricultural lands in Nablus and Ramallah, uprooted grape trees, and stole 45 heads of cows from Palestinian shepherds in Tubas, while (6) vehicles were seized including a bulldozer, a roller, two special vehicles and other equipment.
In terms of land confiscation and illegal settlement activities, the Israeli forces confiscated 1.3 dunams in the village of Sebastia in Nablus to establish a military facility, built a settlement road in Wadi Salman in al-Quds, and settlers established a settlement outpost in Ramallah. While the total number of Israeli crimes and violations during the last week of July reached (2,354) crimes of various types in various Palestinian areas.