The Israeli Army and Settlers Demolish Homes, Burn Lands, and Steal Property in the West Bank
August 13, 2024
The Israeli occupation army committed one of the bloodiest massacres in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 100 Palestinians and wounding over 150 others in a direct bombardment targeting Al-Tabi’in School in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of central Gaza. The bombing occurred while the displaced individuals were performing the Fajr prayer in the school’s prayer hall.
Accordingly, UNICEF confirmed that more than half of the schools used as shelters for the displaced in the Gaza Strip had been targeted.
It is noteworthy that Israel had committed numerous massacres, including at the Baptist Hospital on October 17, 2023, where 500 people were murdered, and in a residential neighborhood in Jabalia Camp on October 31, 2023, where 400 were murdered, in addition to 200 murdered in the Al-Fakhoura School affiliated with UNRWA on November 18, 2023. The ugliness of the Israeli genocide crimes was evident in the “flour” massacres that murdered 118 people in the Nabulsi circle on November 29, 2024, as well as, the Al-Shifa Hospital massacre on March 18, 2024, the burning of the displaced people’s tents in the city of Rafah, which murdered 45 displaced people on May 26, 2024, and Al-Nuseirat School Camp massacre on June 6, 2024, which murdered 40 displaced people, along with the Al-Nawasi Camp massacre for displaced people in Khan Yunis on June 13, 2024, which was subjected to 5 Israeli missiles that murdered 90 Palestinians.
According to the OIC Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes against the Palestinians for the period between August 6-12, 2024, the number of Palestinians murdered by Israeli fire during the past week reached 290, while 735 others were wounded. The total number of murdered by Israeli fire from October 7, 2023, until August 12, 2024, in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and occupied al-Quds, reached about 40,519.
Meanwhile, the UN has reported that about two-thirds of the buildings in the Gaza Strip have been either completely destroyed or damaged since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, according to satellite images.
In the West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces murdered 16 Palestinians and arrested 153 others during the past seven days, while they demolished 7 homes in Jenin, al-Quds, Bethlehem, and Hebron. The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was subjected to almost daily incursions, the number of perpetrators of which reached (2090) Israeli extremists.
Settler gangs raided villages and towns in the West Bank about 51 times, during which they burned agricultural lands in the towns of Ramallah, Nablus, and Bethlehem, and grazed their sheep, and destroyed Palestinian crops and trees in the villages of Bethlehem. Settlers stole solar cells, an electricity complex, and the contents of homes in Tubas. They also bulldozed an area of 6,000 square meters of agricultural land between the villages of Yasuf and Iskaka in Salfit and uprooted 100 olive trees in order to expand the Israeli settlement of “Novi Hamaya” and set up their tents there. The Israeli forces also bulldozed agricultural lands in order to pave an agricultural road to the same settlement. Settlers in the Al-Hayman area near the Palestinian town of Yatta placed a fence around a plot of land in order to seize it. The occupation forces bulldozed the lands surrounding the “Rahalim” settlement with the aim of expanding it, while the Israeli occupation forces also bulldozed 3 circles, streets, a water network, fences for Palestinians and vehicles in Jenin and destroyed public property and commercial stalls. They demolished 2 water wells and destroyed a vehicle in Hebron, confiscated a bulldozer, and destroyed 2 commercial facilities in al-Quds.
Overall, the number of Israeli crimes and violations reached 1880 crimes in 7 days, ranging in severity and distributed across the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and al-Quds.