Israel Kills and Wounds 165 Palestinians and Arrests 138 Others
Photo: Anadolu news agency.
Ramallah, June 23, 2026
According to the OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians, Israeli occupation forces murdered 34 Palestinians and injured 131 between June 16 and 22, 2026. Among them, 32 were murdered and 116 were injured in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli bombardment of beachgoers in Khan Younis, as well as in the Al-Mawasi refugee camp, the Al-Bureij camp, the municipal park in central Gaza City, the Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, and the Al-Sabra neighbourhood. A journalist, a child, and a Palestinian woman were among those murdered by the shelling, which constitutes a daily violation of the ceasefire agreement.
In the West Bank, two Palestinians were murdered and 15 others were injured. This brings the total number murdered since October 7, 2023, to 74,171, with 178,223 injured. The Israeli occupation forces committed 1,003 crimes during the past week across all Palestinian areas, including the West Bank, which was subjected to 292 incursions into its various cities and villages. During these incursions, the occupation forces arrested 138 Palestinians and demolished 12 homes, a car wash, four livestock pens, a water well, and a wall. They also destroyed animal feed troughs, water tanks, and fodder, damaged an agricultural irrigation network, occupied four homes, uprooted trees in two areas of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Hebron, and confiscated nine metres of land in Tubas for military purposes. In addition, they confiscated a bulldozer, a motorcycle, equipment, and livestock.
Regarding attacks on religious sites, the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound was subjected to daily incursions. Israeli occupation forces arrested one of the mosque’s guards and prevented the call to prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. Meanwhile, settlers set fire to parts of two mosques in the village of Jaljulia and at the Al-Nubani farms in Ramallah.
Regarding attacks on children and the education sector, Israeli occupation forces murdered one child and arrested two others. Settlers also ran over a child in the Abu Falah Bedouin community in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and shot another child in the town of Beit Ummar in Hebron.
Israeli occupation forces raided the Girls’ Secondary School in the Wadi al-Joz neighbourhood of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), causing material damage to its contents during the search, and interrogated the school’s principal.
In terms of settlement activity, settlers carried out 110 attacks, releasing their livestock onto Palestinian agricultural, grazing, and residential lands on 13 occasions in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem, Tubas, and Jenin.
Settlers seized a mobile home, three vehicles, a cow, a sheep, agricultural equipment, water pumps, and solar panels. They also burned farmland in five different areas, along with a vehicle repair shop, two vehicles, and a barn. Additionally, they damaged 15 vehicles, destroyed two barns and part of a house, cut the branches of 70 trees in Umm Zuwaitina, Bethlehem, and cut down an electricity pole in Jabal Qamas, near Beita, Nablus. They also damaged and stole part of a water pipeline supplying farms, as well as water meters and sections of irrigation networks in Tubas.
Regarding attacks on Bedouin areas, settlers cut off water and electricity lines to a Bedouin family’s home east of Taybeh, threatened Bedouins in Beitunia, Ramallah, with expulsion, attacked shepherds in Khirbet Ad-Daqiqa in Masafer Yatta, Hebron, ran over and injured a child in the Abu Falah Bedouin community in Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and erected a fence around a Bedouin community in Beit Liqya, Ramallah, preventing residents from moving around it. Similarly, in seven days, 18 colonial settlement activities took place in the West Bank. Settlers bulldozed land in Ramallah and Nablus, paved a road near the village of Za’tara in Nablus, and another in the town of Beit Anan in Al-Quds (Jerusalem). Occupation forces also paved a road in the Wadi al-Shami area leading to the “Nili” settlement. They continued bulldozing both sides of a road east of Ramallah to facilitate the movement of settlers who had seized a plot of land in the village of Qaryut in Nablus. Settlers erected tents in four areas in Hebron, Bethlehem, and Ramallah, placed three mobile homes in the Old City of Hebron, laid a foundation stone for a new settlement outpost, and placed mobile homes west of the town of Dura in Hebron. They also added mobile homes on Mount Sabih in the town of Beita in Nablus, established a settlement outpost east of the village of Burqa, and poured foundations for another settlement outpost in the plain of the town of Turmus Ayya in Ramallah. Furthermore, the occupation forces approved the construction of 576 settlement units in Jericho and Qalqilya, in addition to a religious institute in Hebron.