Israeli occupation forces raided the West Bank 448 times and attacked 3 mosques
Israeli Occupation army forces a Palestinian to demolish his home in Al-Quds. WAFA News Agency
October 21, 2025
The Israeli occupation forces killed 159 Palestinians in two weeks in the Gaza Strip. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes against Palestinians documented 81 murdered in Gaza by Israeli forces, and 110 others injured, between October 14 and 20, 2025, despite the ceasefire taking effect.
In the last week, 120 murdered were confirmed, in addition to the murdering of five Palestinians in the West Bank. The OIC Observatory documented 69,272 Palestinian murdered between October 7, 2023, and October 20, 2025, and 179,395 injuries.
The Israeli occupation forces killed members of the Abu Shaaban family, including 7 children and 3 women, in eastern Gaza. They also bombed Al-Fakhari town in Khan Yunis, Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood, Jabalia camp, Al-Shakoush and Al-Mawasi areas, western Rafah, Al-Rimal neighborhood, northern Al-Nuseirat camp, and eastern Al-Bureij camp, amid claims by the occupation army that the murdered crossed the yellow line. On October 17, the occupation forces intensified their bombing of the Gaza Strip, leaving dozens of murdered. The occupation army announced the bombing of 123 targets in the Gaza Strip, in a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement.
The OIC Observatory recorded the recovery of 121 Palestinian bodies over the past week, documenting the atrocities suffered by Palestinians whose bodies were handed over by the occupation forces under the ceasefire agreement.
The occupation government also suspended the entry of aid after the Rafah crossing was closed, with 22,000 injured and sick people awaiting permission to travel abroad for treatment.
In one week, the occupation forces carried out 448 raids on West Bank cities and villages, arresting 162 Palestinians, including 5 children. They murdered a child and injured 6 others. The occupation forces also raided a girls’ high school in the village of al-Rihiya in Hebron, and a school in the village of Kisan, south of the town of Tuqu’. Israeli Settlers prevented school students from passing through the villages of Duma and al-Lubban al-Sharqiya in Nablus.
Israeli occupation forces demolished a house in Tubas, a commercial store, two barns, and bulldozed the floor of a car showroom in Al-Quds. They confiscated a private vehicle in Hebron and bulldozed the main street near the village of Tayasir during a raid on Tubas. They also razed an area of land in the town of As-Samu in Hebron. They seized sums of money and gold jewelry from Palestinians in the village of Kafr Qaddum in Qalqilya, at the Deir Sharaf checkpoint in Nablus, and during an arrest campaign in Jericho. Israeli occupation forces handed over 10 Palestinian families notices to evacuate their homes and leave the Einun area and the Tubas plain.
In the context of attacks on mosques, extremist Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the second time in a few days, leading a group of Israeli extremists. Meanwhile, an occupation soldier stormed the Al-Hijra Mosque while worshippers were performing prayers in the town of Beit Hanina in Al-Quds, and occupation forces raided and searched the mosque in the village of Deir Abu Daif.
Occupation soldiers arrest Palestinians during raids on cities and villages in the West Bank.
Over the past seven days, West Bank villages have been subjected to 117 settler attacks, including 66 attacks during the olive harvest season in 59 villages. 38 Palestinian villages were attacked by settlers and occupation forces, who assaulted Palestinian farmers and prevented them from harvesting their olive crops. Settlers cut down, uprooted, and burned olive trees in 9 other villages, and stole olive crops from 12 villages.
Settlers stole 3 beehives and destroyed 4 others in the village of Umm al-Safa, damaged a water tank in the village of Burqa in Ramallah, and burned a vehicle and a house in the villages of Beitin and Rammun in Ramallah, as well as another vehicle in the village of Beit Fajjar in Bethlehem.
Settlers demolished an agricultural barn, filled in a water well, bulldozed land, and uprooted trees in the Matwi area of Salfit.
The settlers also bulldozed approximately 30 dunams of agricultural land and damaged a water network, causing significant damage to crops in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas. They also grazed their cows on agricultural land in the village of Beit Hassan in Nablus, damaging property and crops over an area of 200 dunams.
The number of settlement activities reached seven, during which the occupation forces confiscated 3,712 dunums of land from the town of Azzun to pave a settlement road. They also confiscated 21,307 dunums of land from the towns of Jayyus and Azzun to build a security wall around the settlement of “Tzofim”, and confiscated a plot of land in the Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood in Al-Quds for settlement projects to transform it into a park. They confiscated 70,147 dunums of land from the villages of Qaryut, al-Sawiya, and al-Lubban al-Sharqiya in Nablus to establish a buffer zone around the settlement of “Eli”. The occupation forces bulldozed Palestinian lands inside the fence surrounding the settlement of “Ariel” in Salfit, and settlers bulldozed lands between the villages of Beit Imrin and Burqa in Nablus, with the aim of establishing a new settlement outpost. Settlers attempted to erect a tent on land near the Beit Kahil bridge in Hebron and another in the Beit Iksa village in Al-Quds. Settlers also seized water springs in the Hamma area in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas, preventing Palestinians from accessing them.
The OIC Observatory recorded 1,830 Israeli crimes in seven days across various Palestinian territories, and 342,540 crimes since October 7, 2023, until the writing of this report.