Settlers burn agricultural land in 11 West Bank villages
The Israeli occupation army abuses Palestinians in Tulkarm camp in the West Bank.
Photo from the Palestinian News and Information Agency (PNA)
July 8, 2025
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded 998 Palestinian murdered between July 1 and 7, 2025, including (992) murdered in the Gaza Strip alone. During this period, 762 Palestinians were murdered, and civil defense personnel recovered 7 additional Palestinians from under the rubble. Data on 223 Palestinians who fell earlier in the aggression were also documented, adding this number to the total number of murdered since October 7, 2023, which has reached 59,033. The number of injured over the past seven days has reached 2,991, and 145,226 over the period from October 7, 2023, to July 7, 2025.
According to the OIC Observatory, the occupation forces continued to kill numerous Palestinians among those waiting for aids over the past week. They also bombed a water desalination plant in the al-Rimal neighborhood as part of their deliberate attacks targeting the basic needs of Gaza residents. They also targeted the Abu Asi School, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in the Shati refugee camp, and a school in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood. Meanwhile, the United Nations office in Gaza announced that five school buildings housing displaced persons in the northern Gaza Strip were subjected to Israeli bombing on July 1 and 2, which also killed the director of the Indonesian Hospital and his family.
During that period, fuel ran out at al-Shifa Medical Complex, threatening the lives of 350 kidney failure patients. Nasser Hospital also announced a fuel shortage, threatening the lives of infants due to the incubators’ failure. These developments came as Gaza residents live on only 25% of the remaining inhabited land due to the “Gideon Vehicles” plan, which aims to seize Palestinian land.
In the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, the occupation army carried out 299 raids on Palestinian areas between July 1 and 7, 2025. These raids included numerous crimes, the most notorious of which was the arrest of 198 Palestinians, including six children, in Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Nablus. The raids also included the storming of a kindergarten in Al-Khalil and the government hospital in Tulkarm.
The demolition of 100 buildings in Jenin camp brought the total number of buildings demolished in the past seven days to 132, including 48 in Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm and 58 in Tulkarm camp. The demolition also included a lathe in Nablus, four agricultural facilities, numerous sheep pens, greenhouses, and mobile homes in Nablus, Tulkarm, and Al-Quds, and retaining walls and a well in Ramallah.
Palestinian sources reported that the number of buildings damaged over the past months as a result of the Israeli aggression on West Bank camps reached 1,000. The occupation forces issued an order to confiscate lands from the town of Kafr Thulth in Qalqilya for military purposes, as well as a bulldozer and a vehicle. They also seized a total of $70,000 in the possession of Palestinians on several occasions and in various cities across the West Bank.
Furthermore, the Observatory noted that the number of settlement activities reached 15, with many of these activities being carried out by the occupation forces, not just settlers. The occupation authorities announced the confiscation of lands from the villages of Kafr Qaddum and Jinsafut for the benefit of the settlement of Qaddumim. They also paved settlement roads on lands in the town of Deir Istiya and the village of Haris in Salfit. They bulldozed and excavated lands south of Tulkarm for the expansion of the settlement of Avnei Hefetz, and installed numerous mobile homes on lands in the town of Halhul in Al-Khalil.
Settlers established two settlement outposts near the village of Bardala in Tubas after displacing the area’s residents. They also displaced six Palestinian families in the Al-Faw area of Tubas. Settlers built enclosures as the nucleus of a settlement outpost south of the town of Aqraba in Nablus. They set up tents and equipment for the construction of settlement outposts in the al-Mu’arrajat area northwest of Jericho, the town of Aqraba in Nablus, the village of Kafr Malik in Ramallah, and the town of Deir Istiya. They also bulldozed land near the town of Janata in Bethlehem, attempted to establish a settlement outpost on Mount Tal al-Batin in the town of Sinjil in Ramallah, and bulldozed land adjacent to the “Rafafa” settlement near Salfit.
On a related note, the number of settler attacks over the past seven days reached 82, with settlers appearing more daring in committing their crimes, which have escalated to the point of displacing Palestinians from their homes. Recent reports have revealed that 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced as a result of the ongoing Israeli military campaigns in the West Bank. The Arab al-Malihat community has been subjected to daily attacks by settlers, resulting in the forced displacement of 22 families out of a total of 85. Settlers also destroyed families’ homes and damaged their contents. Settlers cut the branches of dozens of trees in the villages of Susya in Al-Khalil, Kafr Laqif in Qalqilya, Burin in Nablus, and Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit. They also stole 96 sheep, smashed car windows and punctured car tires, and destroyed 50 beehives and agricultural cabins in Kafr ad-Dik. They equally vandalized a solar cell and stole a transformer and electricity storage batteries near Ain al-Bayda in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas and in the village of Kisan in Bethlehem, stole a store in Jericho and a car tow truck, seized lands near the Etzion settlement, damaged property and stole surveillance cameras in areas in Bethlehem, burned 4 vehicles in the town of Beita in Nablus, and damaged property in the place, grazed their sheep on the lands of the town of Taybeh and Masafer in the town of Yatta in Hebron, and fed their livestock with fodder owned by Palestinians, bringing the number of crimes committed by Israelis over the period between July 1-7, 2025 to 4,968 crimes that affected all Palestinian areas, while the total number of crimes since October 7 reached 285,482 crimes.