Israel Plans to Seize Area C of the West Bank, and a Demolition Warning Issued for 100 Homes in Jenin
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June 10, 2025
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded the deaths of 460 murdered Palestinians and 1939 injured in a single week between June 3 and 9, 2025. The total number of Palestinians murdered by Israel from October 7, 2023, until June 9, 2025, reached 56,260, and 134,586 were injured. Many of the murdered Palestinians fell while searching for aid. Palestinian sources reported that the number of food seekers murdered reached more than 111 Palestinians, 583 were injured, and 9 were missing, in addition to the bombing of aid centers. The rest were murdered by the Israeli occupation forces’ fire that targeted various areas of Gaza, including displaced persons’ tents and civilian homes. Data issued by the United Nations showed that the rates of acute malnutrition among children in Gaza have tripled since the last ceasefire. UNICEF issued a distress call to end the war, stressing that the use of starvation as a “weapon” constitutes a war crime. This statement came amid growing use of the term “genocide” by Western officials, with Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévost stating that he personally believes what is happening in Gaza amounts to genocide.
Three paramedics and a journalist were murdered in an Israeli airstrike while recovering the bodies of Palestinians murdered following an airstrike in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. Israeli forces also bombed the Baptist Hospital, murdering four journalists. This brings the total number of journalists murdered in the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip to 228.
The OIC Media Observatory noted that the occupation forces had adopted a policy of increasing pressure on the health sector by doubling the number of injured, which has now exceeded the capacity of hospitals operating in the Gaza Strip to provide treatment, given the Israeli restrictions and lack of the equipment and resources necessary for their continued operation. This comes as the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor confirmed that the occupation forces are deliberately bombing hospitals in Gaza based on the same pretexts and lies.
Israeli occupation forces blew up homes in the Qarara area of Khan Yunis and the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as part of its policy of displacing Palestinians, alongside Israeli admissions that the occupation government is arming Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip.
In the West Bank, extremist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated that the occupation government has a plan that includes imposing sovereignty over Area C, displacing the residents of Khan al-Ahmar, and disrupting the banking system. Meanwhile, occupation forces notified the owners of 100 homes in the Jenin refugee camp of impending demolition.
Al-Aqsa Mosque has been subjected to near-daily raids, with extremist settlers attempting to bring bloodied meat into the mosque to be offered as a sacrifice before being prevented by Al-Aqsa guards. In continuation of their policy of banning Muslims from entering the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, the Israeli occupation authorities refused to hand over the Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslims on the first day of Eid al-Adha, as they did on Fridays and the Night of Power during Ramadan, in addition to Eid al-Fitr.
In addition, settlers attacked the Armenian monastery in Al-Quds, spitting on the monastery, crosses, and holy Christian symbols.
The number of raids by the occupation forces on cities and towns in the West Bank reached 302, during which they arrested 166 Palestinians. They also murdered a child in Ramallah and injured two others in Nablus. They also raided the Al-Tahadi School in the village of Khirbet Ibziq, during the week that witnessed the presence of settlers near the Nour Al-Huda School on the outskirts of the town of Beitunia in Ramallah. The occupation forces demolished four homes in Al-Quds within one week, bulldozed agricultural lands in the village of Deir Jarir, Ramallah, confiscated two agricultural tractors in the town of Beit Ummar, Hebron, three cars in the town of Tuqu’, Bethlehem, and the town of Hizma, Al-Quds, and a motorcycle in the town of Sinjil, Ramallah.
Israeli crimes totaled 3,172 during the period monitored by the OIC Media Observatory, of which settlers accounted for approximately 63 crimes documented by activists. Settler crimes included 55 attacks on various villages, towns, and cities in the West Bank. During these raids, settlers attacked the outskirts of the town of Deir Dibwan in Ramallah, where they burned three homes, a farm, cars, and horse and sheep pens. They trapped Palestinians inside their homes and prevented ambulances from reaching the area.
Settlers grazed their livestock in the village of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah and cut down tree branches in the village. They also grazed their livestock in the village of Bardala in Tubas and the village of Susya in Hebron. They also cut down the branches of 30 olive trees in the village of Kafr Malik, and the branches of 70 olive seedlings in the villages of Al-Mughayyir and Khirbet Abu Falah in Ramallah. Others set fire to agricultural land in the village of Jit in Qalqilya and a waste dump in the village of Ein Siniya in Ramallah.
In terms of settlement activities, settlers established a settlement outpost on the ruins of the homes of a Palestinian family that had been displaced previously in the town of Taybeh in Ramallah. Others erected two tents near Palestinian homes in the village of Susya in Hebron and opposite Palestinian homes in the village of Burin. They also erected a tent on the summit of Mount Ebal, north of Nablus, in addition to erecting a tent on Palestinian land east of the town of Yatta in Hebron, and a pergola in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan in Salfit.
Meanwhile, settlers paved a settlement road from the lands of the village of Farkha and brought water to the settlement outpost located there. Others paved a road west of the town of Deir Ballut in Salfit. The occupation forces also ordered the confiscation of 36,055 dunams of land from the villages of Shibtin, Deir Ammar, and Deir Qadis in Ramallah, in addition to 12,221 dunams of land from the villages of Deir Ghassaneh and al-Lubban al-Gharbi in Ramallah.