Thousands of dunams of land were confiscated along with the approval of the sovereignty law over the West Bank
Occupation forces demolish a house in the village of Shaqiya, west of Ramallah. WAFA news agency.
Ramallah, October 28, 2025
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded 314 murdered during the period between October 21-27, 2025, including 14 Palestinians murdered by occupation forces during the aforementioned period in the Gaza Strip, in addition to the recovery of 46 bodies, the identification of 252 murdered, and the recording of two murdered in the West Bank.
The OIC Observatory also documented the injury of 34 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the past seven days.
Thus, the number of those murdered between October 7, 2023, and October 27, 2025, stands at 69,586 murdered and 179,416 injured.
The OIC Observatory noted the incursion of occupation forces into the western part of Gaza City, while Palestinians in the Gaza Strip buried 54 unidentified bodies of those whose remains were handed over by the occupation forces in recent days. Palestinian sources confirmed that most of them showed signs of torture.
On the humanitarian front, the World Health Organization called for the permanent opening of medical corridors to allow 15,000 injured and sick Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip to receive treatment.
In the West Bank, the Israeli Knesset approved in a preliminary reading two bills aimed at imposing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank and one of its settlements.
The number of incursions carried out by Israeli occupation forces into cities and villages in the West Bank reached 287, during which 168 Palestinians were arrested, including 5 children. Additionally, 14 children were injured in Al-Quds, Nablus, and Tubas, while settlers assaulted 3 children in Tulkarm and the town of Masafer Yatta, and the occupation army detained two children in Bethlehem.
Israeli occupation forces demolished two houses in Al-Quds and Salfit, a poultry farm in Al-Quds, and a barn, and bulldozed a fence in Al-Quds, land in the village of Rujeib, land planted with grapevines north of the town of Beit Ummar, and land near Farsh al-Hawa north of Hebron. They also occupied a house in the village of Burin in Nablus and turned it into a military barracks, and raided the Beit al-Sheikh mosque in the village of Khirbet Tana in Nablus and damaged its contents.
The number of attacks by settlers against Palestinians during the aforementioned period reached 95, during which settlers grazed their livestock in the Al-Khalayel area and the village of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah, the Al-Auja waterfall in Jericho, the Aqawis area, the villages of Al-Simiya, and the Khirbet Al-Hams area in Hebron.
The settlers vandalized the homes of Bedouin Arabs from the al-Malihat community who had been displaced months ago in Jericho, and burned tents and houses in the village of Masafer Yatta and the village of Mikhmas in Al-Quds. They also burned four cars in the town of Deir Dibwan and the village of al-Mughayyir, seized a Palestinian’s car in the village of Kafr Malik, stole a cart from the village of Burin, and a tent from the village of Yarza in Tubas.
Regarding the olive harvest season, 41 villages have been subjected to 61 attacks over the past seven days. These included two bulldozing operations carried out by the occupation army in the villages of Kafr Qaddum, Awarta, and Asira al-Qibliya, during which dozens of olive trees were uprooted. Farmers in 24 other villages were subjected to attacks and assaults by settlers and occupation forces to prevent them from harvesting their olives. In addition, 14 villages experienced looting and theft of olive crops, and settlers uprooted and burned trees, cut branches, and grazed their livestock in olive groves in 12 other villages.
The number of settlement activities during the period covered in the report reached 16, during which the occupation authorities confiscated 29.68 dunams of land from the villages of Kafr Malik and Deir Jarir to establish a buffer zone around the “Kochav Hashahar” settlement, 12.612 dunams from the village of Deir Jarir to construct a settlement road to the “Kochav Hashahar” settlement, 2.203 dunams from the town of Taybeh to erect a barbed wire fence along the road leading to the “Rimonim” settlement, 18.279 dunams from the village of Ras Karkar to establish a buffer zone around the “Talmon” settlement, and 10.984 dunams from the town of Taybeh to construct a settlement road to the “Rimonim” settlement.
Settlers also fenced off two plots of land, one estimated at 4,000 dunams in the Khirbet al-Samra area, and another in the al-Farsiya area in the northern Jordan Valley, in preparation for seizing them.
Israeli occupation forces bulldozed land in the al-Buweira area east of Hebron, in preparation for seizing it for settlement projects. Settlers plowed 500 dunams of land belonging to the town of Beit Awwa and the village of Sikka, also in preparation for seizing it. They expanded and extended a water pipeline to an outpost established on land east of the town of Yatta, and constructed a concrete foundation on Palestinian land east of the town of Sa’ir in Hebron. They also paved a settlement road from the Wadi al-Fawwar area near Ein Jariot in the town of Beitunia towards the bypass road, seized a cave in Khirbet al-Mafqara in Masafer Yatta, erected a new tent on land in the Hamroush area east of the town of Sa’ir in Hebron, brought mobile homes to the settlement outpost on the lands of Deir Jarir village with the aim of expanding it, and planted trees on land in the village of Birin in Hebron in order to seize the land later. This brings the total number of Israeli violations within the Palestinian territories over the past seven days to 1,177, and 343,717 violations over the past two years.