Israeli occupation forces and settlers uproot 600 trees in one week
Israeli occupation forces arrest a Palestinian youth in Nablus. WAFA News Agency
Ramallah, February 10, 2026
Israeli occupation forces bombed southern Gaza, the Zeitoun and Tuffah neighborhoods, the center of Gaza City, southern and eastern Khan Younis, and tents housing displaced people in several areas, including a camp for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, as well as residential homes. The occupation forces also continued demolishing homes in the Gaza Strip. they had previously canceled a decision to allow the third group of patients to leave the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing, as agreed upon in the second phase of the ceasefire agreement.
The OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians recorded, for the period between 3 and 9 February 2026, 62 killed, including 60 killed in the Gaza Strip, and two killed in the West Bank, in addition to 122 injured in the Gaza Strip, and 17 injured in the West Bank, bringing the total number of killed from 7 October 2023 to 9 February 2026 to 72,948, and 181,121 injured.
In the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound has witnessed an increase in daily incursions compared to previous weeks, amid calls from Israeli extremists to escalate the number of such incursions. Israeli occupation forces arrested two Al-Aqsa guards, expelled another, and barred a fourth Palestinian from visiting the mosque.
Israeli occupation forces stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron twice during the reporting period, expelling staff and worshippers to secure the entry of settlers and their performance of Talmudic rituals within the mosque compound. Settlers also attacked a mosque near the village of Al-Maniya, vandalizing and cutting its fences and grazing their sheep in its courtyard.
The number of Israeli occupation forces’ raids on Palestinian cities and villages in the West Bank reached 314 over seven days, resulting in the arrest of 197 Palestinians.
Regarding attacks on children, the occupation forces injured two children, one of whom was a girl run over by an occupation forces vehicle in Bethlehem, and arrested three children. Settlers assaulted a child and closed the road leading to the Ibziq school in Tubas. Meanwhile, the occupation forces stormed the Khirbet Ibziq school northeast of the city, vandalized its contents, confiscated educational tools, destroyed its water and internet networks, and closed the roads leading to the school to prevent students from reaching it.
In the Gaza Strip, 11 children were killed last week, while UNICEF said that 37 children have been killed since the beginning of 2026 in the Gaza Strip.
The occupation forces demolished 8 houses, 6 commercial establishments, in addition to residential and agricultural facilities, a horse stable, a cave used for raising sheep, and two residential rooms. They bulldozed a street in Jenin, land in Bethlehem, and uprooted 200 grape trees. They occupied 3 houses and turned them into military barracks. They confiscated more than $6,010 from seven people in Hebron and Ramallah, as well as a quantity of gold, property ownership contracts, land ownership documents, and personal identification papers. They also confiscated a truck, three bulldozers, and surveillance cameras.
Israeli occupation authorities cut off water and electricity to the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Jerusalem and halted work on a 4-kilometer water pipeline that supplied water from the Beit al-Roush Dam to agricultural lands in the village of Beit al-Roush al-Tahta in Hebron. Occupation forces also notified families in the town of Arraba, south of Jenin, to quickly evacuate their homes in preparation for the re-establishment of a military post, and imposed a curfew on the town of Azzun in Qalqilya, forcing shops to close.
With the approval of the Ministerial Council of the occupation government of a decision to legalize settlements, the number of settler incursions into Palestinian villages reached 74 attacks, including settlers releasing livestock to graze in 24 agricultural areas in Ramallah, Jericho, Nablus, Hebron, Tubas and Bethlehem. Settlers also stormed the Na’aran synagogue in Jericho and performed religious rituals there, smashed solar panels, window glass, surveillance cameras, cut electrical wires and a water pipeline, damaged 35 bags of fodder, stole an agricultural tractor, surveillance cameras and mobile phones, burned a house and two cars, smashed a car and the windows of three trucks, and uprooted and cut the branches of more than 400 olive trees.
The number of crimes committed by the Israeli occupation and settlers during the aforementioned period, in various Palestinian areas, amounted to 1026 crimes.