Israel Targets olive harvest season in 46 villages in the West Bank and Al-Ibrahimi mosque is in the grip of settlers
October 15,2024
Israel has intensified its crimes against civilians in the northern Gaza Strip, especially in the period between October 8-14, 2024. The Israeli occupation forces have isolated 400,000 Palestinians residing in the northern areas, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid to them and reinstated the Israeli starvation policy, as monitored by the Media Observatory of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.
This period coincided with intensive shelling of homes and tents, especially the burning of displaced people living in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, which was targeted several times recently, in addition to Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, which the occupation forces threatened to evacuate, along with the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital.
Jabalia camp was also subjected to siege and shelling, in addition to Rufaida School and the Girls’ School in Jabalia, along with intensive shelling that targeted the remaining homes in those areas.
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that there are 12,000 wounded people in need of urgent travel for treatment, 10,000 cancer patients facing the risk of death, and 3,000 patients with various chronic diseases who are deprived of treatment. Additionally, more than 1.5 million people are suffering from infectious diseases due to the conditions of displacement.
The health situation in the Gaza Strip is groaning under the weight of a full year of aggression, which has resulted in the closure of 20 hospitals (private and governmental) out of 35 hospitals, while the remaining 15 hospitals are operating partially, in addition to the exit of 80 health centers out of 90 from service. Furthermore, 130 ambulances were destroyed, in addition to the martyrdom of 1151 Palestinians, and the arrest of 310 others who work in the health sector according to statistics covering the period from October 7, 2023 to the end of September 2024.
The number of Palestinian martyrs over the period October 8-14, 2024, was 389 martyrs, while the number of wounded was 1403, and the number of martyrs since October 7, 2023 – October 14, 2024, was 43043, and the wounded was 104934.
In the West Bank, the occupation forces arrested 245 Palestinians within a week, caused extensive damage to infrastructure and property in the Far’a camp in Tubas, demolished eight houses in Hebron and Salfit, occupied three others in Hebron and Tulkarm, and demolished five water pools in Nablus and Jenin.
The occupation authorities have ordered the confiscation of the land on which the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is located in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and converted it into a new settlement outpost comprising 1,440 housing units, in addition to lands belonging to the town of Kifl Haris. 10 dunums of agricultural land were bulldozed in Beit Ummar in Hebron.
Regarding the olive harvest season, the OIC Observatory documented that 46 Palestinian villages were subjected to continuous aggression by both the occupation forces and settlers, through preventing farmers from harvesting their crops and assaulting them, uprooting trees, cutting off their branches and burning them, stealing or destroying crops, stealing crop harvesting equipment, and blocking and bulldozing roads leading to agricultural lands.
The Observatory has documented raids on the villages of Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Salfit, Ramallah, Hebron and Tulkarm, while dozens of other attacks are taking place that are difficult to monitor due to their widespread nature across various villages in the West Bank.
In terms of crimes committed by settlers, the number of documented raids carried out by settlers during the past week amounted to 60 raids. Some of the incidents included settlers robbing a truck transporting goods and stealing its contents in Deir Dibwan in Ramallah, attacking a water tanker and pouring its water on the road while stealing its equipment, and stealing 17 heads of sheep in Ramallah. Settlers also damaged the water network in Bedouin communities in Al-Quds, and detained school students, preventing them from reaching Khan al-Ahmar School in Al-Quds.
While settlers storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque almost daily, the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron has been suffering for more than a month from a ban on prayer in it in order to clear the place for settlers to perform their Talmudic rituals during the Jewish holidays.
Thus, the total number of Israeli crimes during the past week has reached 2841 crimes, affecting various Palestinian groups and regions.