Bedouin communities in the West Bank faced 227 crimes in 30 days
The Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.
Ramallah, March 3, 2026
The OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians documented events from February 24 to March 2, 2026, including occupation crimes in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem ”Al-Quds”. The OIC Observatory also monitored the deliberate targeting of Bedouin communities in the West Bank by occupation forces and settlers throughout February up to the date of this report.
Regarding weekly attacks, occupation forces bombed northern, southern, and central Gaza, including al-Bureij refugee camp, Shuja’iyya neighborhood, Rafah city, al-Tuffah neighborhood, Khan Younis, and Beit Lahia. The bombing resulted in 15 murders and 50 injuries, while civil defense personnel found 6 bodies, bringing the number of Palestinian murdered in one week in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to 23 murders and 67 injuries. The total number of murdered since October 7, 2023, until March 2, 2026, exceeded 73,012, in addition to 181,324 injuries.
The direct bombing crimes against the Gaza Strip come at a time when the fifth wave of rains has flooded the tents of displaced people in the Gaza Strip. The occupation forces continuing to close the crossings, which has exacerbated the food crisis there. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said that the actions of the occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including military operations, may lead to displacement aimed at a permanent demographic change.
In the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound was subjected to daily incursions by extremist settlers. Israeli occupation forces intensified these violations by erecting checkpoints on roads leading to Al-Aqsa and closing it to worshippers, particularly during Friday, Evening, and Taraweeh prayers. They cited ongoing regional developments as a pretext, which also led to the closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron for three days, up to the time of this report, preventing worshippers and Waqf (Islamic endowment) employees from entering. Israeli forces also arrested three Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa courtyards, banned seven others from the mosque for six months, and banned an eighth Palestinian from entering the Old City of Jerusalem for two weeks. They also arrested two journalists in Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem.
In West Bank cities and villages, Israeli forces conducted 346 raids, resulting in 254 arrests, including 13 children, and injuring three others. In addition to these attacks on children, Israeli forces forced the closure of all schools and kindergartens for three days in the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, near Nablus, due to the Israeli raids and house searches.
Israeli occupation forces demolished three houses, a shop, a cafe, a building, and a chicken farm, bulldozed agricultural land, confiscated lathe equipment and 3,000 shekels, occupied three houses and turned them into military barracks, cut off electricity to shops in the Old City of Hebron, and demolished a number of facilities during their raid on Salfit.
Over the past seven days, there have been 84 attacks by settlers, including releasing livestock 25 times in agricultural lands in various governorates of the West Bank, smashing 3 cars, a cell phone, house windows, and solar panels, cutting a pipeline that supplies the village of Talfit with water, burning a house, a warehouse, and two cars. The settlers also seized a car, carried out 6 thefts and the killing of dozens of livestock in Hebron, Nablus, and Salfit, stole a horse and a mare, and cut the branches of 90 olive trees in Nablus and Salfit.
Settlers carried out four settlement activities, during which they erected tents and brought their cattle to the village of Fasayil in Jericho, extended a water line to their encampment, bulldozed land in the town of Qusra, and constructed a public road and a concrete wall in the village of Jalud in Nablus. They also placed iron markers for the installation of a barbed wire fence around a plot of land in the northern Jordan Valley, in preparation for seizing it. The total number of crimes committed over the course of a week reached 1,038, affecting all Palestinian areas.
Regarding attacks on Bedouin communities, the OIC Observatory recorded 32 direct attacks on Bedouin communities in the West Bank during February and up to March 2, 2026. The OIC Observatory also documented 37 incidents of arson, theft and destruction of property belonging to Palestinians residing in these communities, in addition to the displacement of 39 families and the threat of displacement of another, the arrest of two people from those communities, and the documentation of 14 incidents of attacks on shepherds, and the grazing of livestock in grazing areas and village farms 104 times.