Targeting Bedouin Communities and 16 Colonial Activities in the West Bank in a Week
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Ramallah, June 30, 2026
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded 16 Israeli colonial activities, the most prominent of which was the construction of six settlement roads by the colonists and Israeli occupation forces in Ramallah and Bethlehem. The colonists also bulldozed land for settlement purposes east of the town of Taybeh, in the town of Sinjil in Ramallah, and in the town of Qusra in Nablus. They built a road between the villages of Iskaka and Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya in Salfit and began establishing a colonial settlement hotspot east of the village of Mikhmas in Al-Quds (Jerusalem). The Israeli colonists placed mobile homes in the Sudan Monastery in Ramallah, in the village of Burin in Nablus, and in the town of Bani Naim in Hebron, in addition to a fortified room near the outskirts of the town of Yatta in Hebron, and they erected a barbed wire fence around land in the town of Kafr al-Dik.
During the same period, the OIC Observatory documented 100 Israeli colonial attacks across the West Bank. Colonists damaged water networks in four areas of Nablus and Tubas, disrupted electricity service in Bethlehem and Hebron, stole electricity poles from the village of Madma in Nablus for their settlement, and stole a car, a mobile phone, and money.
The Israeli colonists also released livestock onto grazing, agricultural, and residential land 21 times in six West Bank governorates, set fire to agricultural land seven times in Salfit, Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Hebron, damaged 13 vehicles, and uprooted 60 trees.
The OIC Observatory recorded 365 raids by the Israeli occupation forces in cities and villages across the West Bank, including the arrest of 165 Palestinians, among them five children. The occupation forces demolished five houses, a poultry farm, a livestock pen, and two mobile homes; occupied two houses; destroyed a vehicle; halted construction on 15 houses in Bethlehem; and ordered the demolition of seven other houses in Jenin and eight structures in the village of Umm Qussa in Hebron. They also uprooted olive trees in the village of Zububa and on land between the town of Aqraba and the village of Majdal Bani Fadil in Nablus, and confiscated 484 dunams of land in the town of Sinjil in Ramallah. The OIC Observatory continued to document the killings, recording 26 Palestinians murdered and 150 injured across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In Gaza, 21 people were murdered and 140 injured, and two bodies were recovered, while three were murdered and 10 injured in the West Bank. The number of those murdered from October 7, 2023, until June 29, 2026, reached 74,197, with 178,377 injured.
Israeli shelling continued in various areas of the Gaza Strip, where the demolition of standing buildings persists. Occupation forces also advanced into the Atatra area and besieged the displaced persons’ camp there. Meanwhile, the UN Independent International Commission accused the occupation forces of deliberately targeting Palestinian children, noting that this has become a major factor in the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Last week witnessed 1,080 crimes, including attacks on places of worship. Settlers attempted to bring sacrificial offerings into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) through the Hutta Gate, and occupation forces arrested a Palestinian man at one of the mosque’s gates. Occupation forces also stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, expelling its staff and worshippers, removing the canopy in the courtyard, and constructing a roof over the courtyard’s platform. They have continued to prevent the call to prayer at all times for the past eight days. Meanwhile, colonists expelled worshippers from the Ras Mosque in Hebron after assaulting them, playing music, and dancing inside the mosque. Bedouin communities were subjected to six attacks by occupation forces and settlers over a seven-day period, during which a child was arrested, land was bulldozed, property was destroyed, and residents were threatened with displacement.