Israeli occupation forces double their field raids on West Bank
A funeral of one of the victims of the Israeli occupation’s airstrikes on Gaza City.
Palestinian News and Information Agency, WAFA
September 2, 2025
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians recorded 814 Palestinian murdered over the course of seven days, between August 26 and September 1, 2025. 592 of these were murdered in the Gaza Strip by direct fire from the occupation forces, including 92 who were waiting for aid. Eleven bodies were recovered from the Gaza Strip, and 280 Gazans were confirmed murdered after verifying their information. One person was also murdered in the West Bank. The number of injured in the Gaza Strip reached 2,448 over the past seven days alone. The OIC Observatory also recorded 64,529 Palestinian murdered from October 7, 2023, to September 1, 2025, in addition to 169,411 injured during the same period.
In detailing the situation in the Gaza Strip, 339 Palestinians have been documented dead from starvation since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza until the end of last August. The World Hunger Watch reported that 514,000 Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from starvation, representing a quarter of the Strip’s population.
In the context of crimes of murdering and displacement, the Israeli occupation forces murdered journalist Islam Abed and her family in her apartment in Gaza City. They also murdered athlete Louay Istitieh, the director of a sports club in the Zikim axis, while waiting for aid. Six children were also murdered in a bombing that targeted a tent and a building west of Gaza City. The occupation forces also bombed a crowd of people in front of a bakery, in addition to a camp for displaced persons west of Gaza City, which witnessed the displacement of hundreds of Palestinians on the eve of the Israeli military invasion of the city.
West Bank cities and villages witnessed 365 raids in seven days, with the number doubling in the second half of last week. Israeli forces arrested 160 Palestinians, including three children in Ramallah and Bethlehem, and inured three others in Hebron. Six schools in the Sheikh neighborhood of Hebron were raided, searched, photos and textbooks seized, and teachers detained.
A rabbi also blew the shofar in the courtyard of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, in a blatant violation of the sanctity of the mosque. The Israeli occupation forces demolished four houses, dozens of barns, rooms, agricultural sheds, and water tanks in Al-Quds, Nablus, and Bethlehem, in addition to a car park and a bakery in Bethlehem. They bulldozed lands in the village of Nabi Saleh in Ramallah, the village of Rujeib in Nablus, and the village of Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit. They cut down and uprooted many trees in the village of Burqa in Nablus, the village of al-Issawiya in Al-Quds, and the town of Asir in Hebron. They stole money from money exchange shops in Ramallah, seized computers from a money exchange shop in Tulkarm, and seized $42,510 from Palestinians. They confiscated a truck in the town of Idhna, a private car in the al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron, a bulldozer in the village of Yatman in Nablus, and two road-paving vehicles in the town of Kobar in Ramallah. The crimes committed by the occupation army and settlers in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and occupied Al-Quds have reached 4,158 crimes in seven days.
Regarding settlement activity, settlers committed 57 violations over the past week, grazing their livestock in the Aqwawis area, the village of Umm al-Khair, and the Sha’b Umm al-Batm area in the Yatta area of Hebron, and in the village of Duma in Nablus. They also cut down tree branches in the village of al-Minya in Bethlehem.
Settlers also targeted livestock over the past week, stealing 20 camels from Khirbet Tawil al-Sheih in Hebron, poisoning two cows in Khirbet Jabaris in Tubas, stealing 200 sheep from Kafr Malik in Ramallah, and attempting to steal sheep in the town of Al-Qarawa in Salfit. Settlers also attacked an artesian water well station in the Al-Quds Governorate, slashing tires, smashing windows, and destroying surveillance cameras. They also stole a residential tent in the Al-Farisiya community in Tubas, and set fire to another tent and water tanks in the town of Sinjil in Ramallah.
Settlers and occupation forces carried out 12 settlement activities, including the issuance of two orders to confiscate 16 dunams of land from the village of Jinsafut to pave two settlement roads. The first connects the settlements of Bakir and Karnei Shomron, and the second connects the settlements of Immanuel and Karnei Shomron. Settlers also erected mobile homes in the villages of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah, Umm Al-Khair in the Masafer area of Yatta in Hebron, and Deir Istiya in Salfit. Settlers also erected residential tents on lands in the village of Tal in Nablus, all with the aim of establishing new settlement outposts. Settlers also expanded a settlement outpost in the village of Deir Razih in Hebron, bringing in 30 new mobile homes. Settlers extended a plastic water network from a settlement outpost in a pastoral area in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas. Others bulldozed land in the village of al-Rihiya in Hebron and carried out excavation operations to expand the “Haggai” settlement. Others bulldozed 50 dunams of land in the al-Sakout area in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas with the aim of seizing and cultivating it, and hundreds of dunams of land north of the town of al-Auja in Jericho.