Israel Commits 304,749 War Crimes in Gaza and the West Bank Since October 7
Extremist settlers storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Photo from the Palestinian News and Information Agency, PNA.
August 5, 2025
The number of Israeli crimes from October 7, 2023, to August 4, 2025, reached 304,749, according to the crime categories documented by the OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians. The number of crimes in just one week amounted to 6,141 across the Palestinian territories.
The OIC Media Observatory recorded 1,019 Palestinians murdered and 4,825 injured between July 29 and August 4, 2025. Of these, 685 were murdered in the Gaza Strip and 6 in the West Bank. Civil defense personnel recovered the bodies of 37 in Gaza. Data on 290 Palestinians murdered was also verified, adding them to the total number of murdered, which reached 61,962 from October 7, 2023, to August 4, 2025, and 159,061 injured for the same period.
The OIC Media Observatory recorded that the Israeli occupation murdered 162 aid recipients in the Gaza Strip during the aforementioned period. The United Nations confirmed that 1,500 Palestinians have been murdered while waiting for aid since May 2025. Meanwhile, an Israeli airstrike murdered a Palestinian Red Crescent employee and injured three others after targeting the Red Crescent’s headquarters in Khan Yunis.
While the Israeli occupation forces continue to prevent 22,000 aid trucks from entering the Gaza Strip, settlers have also prevented aid convoys from entering Gaza. The Israeli occupation forces have threatened to prevent journalists accompanying aid planes from landing the aid if they film the devastation in the Gaza Strip. On the humanitarian front, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that children in Gaza are dying at an unprecedented rate amid famine and the deteriorating situation resulting from the ongoing Israeli aggression.
Regarding the attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, extremist members of the Israeli Knesset stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, led by extremist Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, under the protection of the Israeli occupation police, who arrested three Al-Aqsa guards. The mosque has also been subjected to daily raids over the past week.
On another level, the number of raids carried out by the occupation forces on cities, towns, and villages in the West Bank reached 274 raids, during which they demolished 10 homes, in addition to a car wash in Al-Quds, 5 commercial stores in Hebron, and 4 agricultural rooms in the village of Idi Rahal in Bethlehem. They also bulldozed a street in the city of Al-Bireh, confiscated two cars in Tulkarm and Hebron, filled in two artesian wells in Beit Dajan and Beit Furik, and confiscated a water pump.
Israeli occupation forces also stormed the campus of Al-Quds University in the town of Abu Dis, firing sound bombs and tear gas at students inside the campus. Israeli forces arrested four children in West Bank cities and injured two others.
Settler attacks reached 79 in one week, in addition to 12 settlement activities. During their raids on the villages of Rammun and Abu Falah, and the town of Silwad, settlers burned 16 cars and a bulldozer, and smashed the windows of a car in the village of Dair Jarir in Ramallah. They also raided the village of Susya in Hebron, burning homes and a vehicle belonging to foreign activists. Settlers set fire to six tin houses inhabited by Bedouins in the Arab al-Malihat community, forcing them to leave the area again after they returned by order of the occupation court following forced displacement as a result of settler attacks. Other Settlers set fire to agricultural lands in the town of Beit Ummar in Hebron, the village of Burqa in Nablus, and an agricultural tent in the village of Bardala in Tubas. They grazed their livestock on Palestinian lands in seven villages in Hebron, Ramallah, Qalqilya, Salfit, Tulkarm, and Jericho. They bulldozed agricultural lands in the village of Qusra in Qalqilya, and a water channel in the town of Al-Auja in Jericho by filling it with dirt. They also bulldozed agricultural lands in the village of Deir Ammar in Ramallah.
Settlers vandalized agricultural crops in the village of Burqa for several days, cut down tree branches in the town of Qablan in Nablus and the village of Farkha in Salfit, stole beehives in the village of Kafr Malik in Ramallah, and uprooted 50 grape trees and 30 various fruit trees in the village of Al-Masoudiya in Nablus. In terms of settlement activity, settlers took control of a water well in the Al-Rafid area, east of the village of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah. They also seized a plot of land adjacent to Palestinian homes in Khirbet Nab’ Ghazal in the northern Jordan Valley of Tubas. They fenced off land along the bypass road in the village of Duma, erected several tents in a site where more than 15 Palestinian families were displaced, and seized some of their property while burning the rest. Israeli occupation forces bulldozed land planted with olive trees to expand the pastoral settlement outpost built on top of a mountain in the village of Zababdah in Jenin. They also bulldozed land in the town of Al-Khader in Bethlehem to expand a road adjacent to the town. They bulldozed land near the homes of residents of the village of Umm al-Khair in the Masafer area of Yatta. They erected a number of mobile homes near the village of Wadi Rahal in Bethlehem and paved a settlement road on lands east of the town of Qaffin in Tulkarm. Settlers began building housing units in a settlement outpost near the Al-Auja waterfall cluster. Others re-erected a tent on lands in the village of Al-Minya in Bethlehem, carried out excavation and bulldozing work in the village of Deir Nizam, and bulldozed agricultural land in the village of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah.