Israeli Occupation Invaded the West Bank 300 times, and Settlers Attacked 63 Times in One Week
Photo from the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA)
April 29, 2025
Between killing and starvation, the Gaza Strip experienced one of its bloodiest weeks, with 289 people murdered as a result of Israel’s deliberate bombing of civilians. The bodies of 38 others were recovered, and 697 Palestinians were confirmed murdered earlier, in addition to five Palestinians murdered by Israeli forces in the West Bank. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded a total of 1,079 Palestinians murdered and 900 injured between April 22 and 28, 2025. This is after recording nearly 1,000 murdered and injured earlier in April, reflecting the Israeli occupation forces’ increased targeting of civilians. It is noteworthy that the killing toll from October 7, 2023, to April 28, 2025, reached 53,242, while the number of injured during the same period reached 124,469.
This past week witnessed a series of Israeli crimes, the bloodiest since the occupation forces violated the ceasefire agreement. These included the bombing of a school housing displaced persons in the Tuffah neighborhood, the Saftawi Cafe in the Bureij refugee camp, and crowds of passersby on Al-Jalaa Street, in addition to the Mohammed al-Durrah Hospital rendered inoperable.
The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has become more prominent in the international arena than ever before, amid Palestinian warnings of mass deaths. The World Food Program announced that its food stocks in Gaza had run out, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) condemned Israel, the occupying power, for denying aid access to the Strip for 50 days, which the international community considers the longest period of starvation in the history of the Gaza Strip.
All this came as World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed to the depletion of medical supplies.
In the West Bank, the occupation forces raided cities and villages in the West Bank 300 times between April 22 and 28, 2025, arresting 165 Palestinians, including 4 children, killing a child, and injuring 39 Palestinians, including 7 children. The occupation forces raided a girls’ secondary school during their raid on the village of Masaliya in Jenin, and demolished 12 homes, four of them in occupied Al-Quds. They also demolished a brick factory and three barns in Al-Quds and Hebron, and 10 greenhouses in Jenin. They bulldozed the Al-Nasba Street located east of the village of Yasuf and demolished its retaining walls. They bulldozed and uprooted olive trees in Salfit, bulldozed an area of land near the village of Jibya in Ramallah, demolished stone fences and uprooted trees in the Al-Jawaya area in the Masafer town of Yatta in Hebron, and expelled Palestinian farmers and prevented them from plowing their land in the village of Qaryut in Nablus, and four water wells in Hebron were also destroyed. The occupation forces halted the work on the road paving project linking the town of Bidya and the village of Mas’ha in Salfit.
Moreover, Settlers carried out seven settlement activities in just one week, with the aim of seizing Palestinian land. They bulldozed land in the town of Qusra in Nablus and the town of Azzun in Qalqilya. They also planted trees on Palestinian land seized near the village of al-Rihiya in Hebron, set up tents near the Western entrance to the town of Bruqin in Salfit and on Masafer lands in the town of Yatta in Hebron, and erected a fence around a plot of agricultural land, in preparation for seizing it and cultivating it in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas.
Meanwhile, the occupation forces issued an order to confiscate an area of agricultural land belonging to the town of Silwad in Ramallah, with the aim of building a settlement road.
The number of settler attacks reached 56 over the week. Settlers burned three cars, six agricultural facilities, a farm, and a construction site. They also stole 45 sheep, some of which were killed, in the town of Sinjil in Ramallah, which has been subject to daily attacks. Other settlers smashed the windows of a vehicle repair shop, damaged its contents, and stole the equipment in the village of Umm Safa in Ramallah. They also damaged and vandalized an irrigation network on a farm in the village of Bardala in Tubas. They also grazed their sheep on agricultural land in the village of Beit Dajan in Nablus, and in the town of Yatta and the Wadi al-Jawaya area in Hebron. They destroyed a school in the village of Zanuta in Hebron for the second time after it had been previously renovated, stealing its iron doors, educational materials, and classroom partitions. Israeli Settlers set fire to residential tents and livestock pens, attempted to steal sheep, and destroyed agricultural crops in the village of Bardala in Tubas. Others assaulted guards and employees at the landfill in the town of Beit Anan in Jerusalem, opened fire directly at a waste collection vehicle and its crew, and seized a bulldozer and a motorcycle. Settlers cut water pipes supplying Palestinian homes in the Shallal al-Auja area of Jericho. Others damaged water tanks and a water pipeline near the Tayasir checkpoint in Tubas. They set fire to agricultural land near the Efrat settlement in Bethlehem, stole an agricultural tractor on the outskirts of the village of Bazariya in Nablus, and stole the contents of a home in the al-Khala area of Hebron.
Regarding attacks on religious sites, occupation forces raided and searched a mosque in the Bir Ayyoub area of the Silwan neighborhood of Al-Quds, and settlers raided religious sites over several days in the town of Kifl Haris.
This brings the total number of Israeli crimes against Palestinians to 3,267 in one week, and 250,722 in a year and a half, covering various categories of crimes documented by the OIC’s Media Observatory and across all Palestinian territories.