Settlers Raid 35 Villages in the West Bank, and Al-Aqsa is Subjected to Daily Raids

December 3, 2024

The Israeli occupation forces have intensified their massacres in the Gaza Strip, where the number of massacres reached 26 during the period between November 26 and December 2, 2024. Last Saturday alone, 100 Palestinians were murdered within 24 hours. The total number of Palestinians murdered in the Gaza Strip in the past week, according to the Media Observatory of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, reached 233, with 738 others injured, as a result of the Israeli bombing that targeted several areas, including a school housing displaced persons east of Gaza City, civilian homes in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, as well as the Nuseirat and Jabalia camps. The Israeli occupation also targeted the Baptist Hospital, which resulted in the murder of a journalist, bringing the total number of journalists murdered in the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip to 191.

In a separate massacre, the occupation forces also deliberately bombed a crew of the World Central Kitchen in Khan Yunis, resulting in the murder of 3 of its workers in an attack that is the second of its kind targeting the “World Kitchen” since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

The number of Palestinians murdered from October 7, 2023, until December 1, 2024, has reached 45,179, while the number of wounded reached 111,392.

In occupied al-Quds, extremist settlers continue to storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque on a daily basis, under the protection of the occupation authorities, who demolished a house in the Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood, and two agricultural facilities.

Six Palestinians were murdered in the West Bank, where the occupation forces arrested 129 others, demolished four homes, occupied three others and turned them into military barracks. They also bulldozed streets and infrastructure in the Far’aah camp in Tubas and demolished two agricultural rooms in Ramallah. In Qalqilya, a commercial shop selling motorcycles was demolished after confiscating its contents. The Israeli occupation also bulldozed a scrap metal shop in Jenin, demolished a vehicle repair shop, and burned a vegetable shop in Ramallah.

The occupation forces also confiscated agricultural equipment in the northern Jordan Valley, a solar energy system and a trailer in Tubas, a private car in Ramallah, and burned another in Salfit. 

In terms of the attack on the education sector, the occupation forces arrested four students from Birzeit University when they stormed near Ramallah, and settlers stormed the Bedouin al-Ka’abneh School in Jericho. In a related context, the number of attacks carried out by settlers over the past seven days reached 35, including the theft of two horses in a village near Tubas Governorate, and the destruction of corn crops over an area of ​​dozens of dunams in the same governorate.

The settlers also carried out two settlement activities in the reviewed period, where they set up a number of mobile homes in an attempt to establish a new settlement outpost east of the town of Yatta in Hebron, and others entered the Al-Bayada area in the village of Jit in Nablus and stole construction equipment before setting up a tent near a house.

The attacks of the occupation forces and settlers on the olive harvest season continued into its final days, as the Israeli forces and settlers prevented Palestinians on four occasions from harvesting their crops. The attacks were concentrated in the villages of Nablus, where settlers cut the branches of dozens of trees and uprooted olive seedlings in the villages of Yasuf in Salfit, Qusra in Nablus, and Al-Deirat in Hebron.

The number of crimes committed by the Israelis between November 26 and December 2, 2024, amounted to 1,789 crimes that affected all Palestinian areas, while the total number of crimes committed by Israel, the occupying power, between October 7, 2023, and the time of writing of this report has reached 206,294 crimes.