The Israeli Occupation Keeps Gaza on the Brink of Collapse While Distilling Aid to Avoid International Pressure
Israeli warplanes launched several raids, firing multiple missiles targeting a wide range of sites, facilities and residential buildings in all governorates of the Gaza Strip, murdering 865 Palestinians between July 8 and 14, 2025. This raised the total number of Palestinian martyrs since October 7, 2023, to 59,898.
The OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded 2,493 Palestinians wounded during the past seven days, bringing the total number of wounded from October 7, 2023 to July 14, 2025 to 147,719.
The killings during the past week were marked by the intensification of Israeli shelling on random densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip, as well as live shooting at Palestinians waiting for aid, in scenes that reflect the magnitude of the tragedy, widespread destruction and continued suffering of the people of Gaza.
During the monitored period, the Israeli occupation forces deliberately bombed a medical center in Deir al-Balah, where most of the victims were children, in a crime considered by observers as a collective punishment of the people in the Gaza Strip. The World Health Organization confirmed that 780 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli occupation forces while waiting in queues to receive food aid, while 5,100 others were injured since the start of the American aid mechanism. These crimes coincide with Israeli plans to establish a so called city in Rafah to house half a million Palestinians, in continuation of the “Gideon Vehicles” plan that aimed to rob Palestinians of their land and pressure them in order to prepare them to choose forced displacement as the only option.
In a related context, sources in Gaza hospitals reported the killing of 6 freed prisoners, including 5 deportees of the Wafa Al-Ahrar exchange deal, in Israeli shelling in the central and southern Gaza Strip, in addition to martyrs and a number of injured, mostly children and women, after an Israeli raid targeting the Halima Al-Saadia School, which houses displaced people in Jabalia Al-Nuzla, in the northern Gaza Strip.
In another heinous crime, the Israeli occupation forces killed seven children between the ages of 10 and 15 who were waiting in line for water at a distribution point.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Palestine said that an average of 27 children have been killed daily by Israel in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of aggression in October 2023, noting that more than 5,000 children in Gaza entered the malnutrition circle in May alone.
A recent studt by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) highlighted that the mortality rate among children under the age of five in the Gaza Strip has increased tenfold since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023.
Sources from the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip also reported that rescue vehicles in Gaza City are now completely out of service, while the health situation is deteriorating due to the scarcity of fuel, which prevents the provision of treatment for those with chronic diseases such as dialysis, and the pressure on the remaining hospitals, which suffer from a scarcity of medical resources. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has warned that Gaza City’s hospitals are on the verge of shutting down completely as a result of the renewed fuel crisis caused by the tightening Israeli blockade.
According to the OIC Media Observatory, Israeli occupation authorities are deliberately distilling aid to reach a “life-saving” policy by reducing resources to the maximum extent and providing only liters of fuel to Gaza hospitals, in order to push them to operate at their minimum limits, thus maintaining a permanent state of imminent collapse while avoiding its occurrence to avoid international pressure.
In the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, the number of incursions by the Israeli occupation army into Palestinian areas amounted to 289 during 8-14 July, 2025. These incursions included many crimes, most notably demolishing 131 houses, including 27 houses in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Nablus and Salfit, occupying two houses in Zita town in Tulkarm and Jinsafut village in Qalqilya, demolishing 16 shops in Jerusalem and Salfit, destroying 50 water tanks, bulldozing agricultural lands in Al-Eizariya town in Jerusalem and Ras Karkar village in Ramallah, in addition to two barns and four agricultural facilities in Ramallah. The occupation forces also confiscated a vehicle in Azzun town in Qalqilya, and sums of money from Palestinians, arrested a child in Bethlehem and Tulkarm, and injured three children, including a three-year-old girl who was injured when a settler on a motorcycle ran over her in Al-Quds.
The Israeli occupation forces issued a decision to confiscate 744.36 dunums of the lands of Al-Mughayer village in Ramallah, in favor of the settlement outpost “Malachi Hashalon” after it was legalized by the occupation authorities, which built a road for military purposes in lands east of Tubas, and warned the Palestinians not to approach their lands near the road. In Nahalin town and Husan village, the occupation forces handed over a military order to confiscate hundreds of dunums of citizens’ lands, in favor of settlement projects to expand the settlement of “Beitar Illit”. The occupation forces began bulldozing works in preparation for the construction of a new settlement road in the areas of Qanan Saqir and Fasoura in the town of Tekoa in Bethlehem.
In the same context, the number of settler attacks during the past seven days amounted to 124 attacks, as settlers continued to target Bedouin communities with the aim of forcibly displacing them from their homes, as happened with the forced displacement of 15 families, numbering 90 members, from the Bedouin community of Al-Hathroura, east of Jerusalem, as a result of settler attacks, with the aim of full control over the area, along with 50 Bedouin families from the Arab Al-Malihat community, northwest of Jericho, forcibly displaced from their homes, in addition to the forcible displacement of 50 Bedouin families from the Arab community of Al-Malihat, northwest of Jericho.
Settlers grazed their livestock in the lands of Masafer in Yatta town, east of Yatta town in Hebron, and in Al-Auja town in Jericho; others burned agricultural lands in Surif town in Hebron and in the villages of Burqa, Turmusaya, Al-Mughayer and Deir Dabwan in Ramallah. Settlers stole 70 sheep from Kafr Malik village in Ramallah, and livestock equipment in Khirbet Al-Farsiya in Tubas, and burned an estate in Sinjil town in Ramallah. A group of settlers entered the plain area of Hizma town and burned a number of trees in a citizen’s orchard.
Israeli settlers also erected a tent near Shufa checkpoint in Tulkarm, another tent in Al-Samu’a town in Hebron and carried out excavation and digging in search of antiquities, a third tent in Al-Sa’ir town in addition to a sheep pen, 4 tents between Amrin and Burqa villages, and a tent between Beita town and Osrin village in Nablus, in order to establish settlement outposts.
Settlers also rebuilt a settlement outpost on the lands of al-Munya village in Bethlehem, in addition to another one in Turmusaya village in Ramallah, and other settlers established a new settlement outpost on the lands of Aqraba town in Nablus, along with settlers erecting 6 mobile homes as part of settlement activities in the Old City of Hebron itself.
A group of settlers in the Ain al-Hilweh area in the northern Jordan Valley attacked citizens’ homes, destroyed their property, and prevented them from grazing their sheep in the pastoral lands. They also constructed a road from the entrance of Duma village to the new settlement outpost established northwest of the village, and an agricultural road near Palestinian homes in the area of Qanan Saqir near the town of Tuqua in Bethlehem, and settlers bulldozed lands between Aqraba town and Majdal Bani Fadel village in Nablus, and destroyed a water transmission line that feeds several villages in the area.
A group of settlers in the Qa’on plain area, west of the village of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley, placed a number of new mobile homes (caravans) in the settlement outpost established in the area, with the aim of expanding it.
Groups of extremist settlers, under the protection of the occupation police, stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and conducted provocative tours in its courtyards and facilities, while settlers held a wedding ceremony in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Hebron, bringing the number of crimes committed by Israelis during the period July 8-14, 2025, to 3988 crimes that affected all Palestinian areas, while the total number of crimes since October 7 reached 289470 crimes.