The occupation disrupt olive harvest season for third consecutive week
October 29, 2024
The Israeli occupation forces increased their shelling of Jabalia camp and Beit Lahia town during the week of October 22-28, 2024. This period witnessed one of the most heinous Israeli crimes represented by targeting hospitals in northern Gaza, forcefully evacuating them and stopping civil defense services. During this period, the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip reached 421, while the number of wounded reached 1342. The total number of martyrs during the period from October 7, 2023 to October 28, 2024 was 43783, while the number of wounded for the same period was 107360.
Key incidents documented by the OIC Media Observatory on Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, during the week, include the targeting of the Asma School affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Beit Lahia by the Israeli occupation forces, while the Israeli Knesset approved the ban on the agency’s work in the Palestinian territories.
45 Palestinians were martyred and dozens were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted several homes in the Beit Lahia project. Two children were also martyred in Kamal Adwan Hospital, whose fuel generators and oxygen equipment were hit, in addition to the evacuation of most of its workers. Israeli shells also killed 5 Palestinians in a deliberate targeting of the gate of Al-Yaman Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia. The Israeli occupation banned the work of civil defense teams in the northern Gaza Strip, where it became clear that the Israeli measures aimed to forcefully displace its residents to areas in the central Gaza Strip.
A report by the United Nations Development Program indicated that, 80,000 homes were destroyed in the Gaza Strip, which needs 80 years to rebuild, while its economy needs 350 years to recover to its faltering state before the Israeli aggression.
In the West Bank, Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinians in one week, 10 others were injured, and the occupation forces arrested 128. The number of settler attacks on Palestinian villages and towns reached about 62 attacks, most of which constituted a declared war on the olive harvest season, as settlers and occupation forces launched 41 attacks that included 36 villages, separately from dozens of attacks that were not documented. These attacks varied between preventing Palestinians from harvesting their crops in 26 villages, and cutting, burning and uprooting olive trees in 4 different villages, while 6 villages were subjected to looting and theft of olive crops and equipment used at the time. Among the Israeli crimes during the past week, which amounted to 2,590, the occupation soldiers stormed the Wadi Fukin School in Bethlehem, forcing the teaching staff to evacuate it, and the settlers of the “Kfar Tapuah” settlement opened fire on a transformer supplying electricity to the village of Yasuf in Salfit, which led to a complete power outage, and the occupation forces prevented the repair of the transformer.
Settlers demolished 15 Palestinian homes and facilities in the village of Sa’ir in Hebron, and seized all their contents, including clothes, furniture, windows and doors, in addition to seizing and destroying about 20 solar energy units and their batteries.
During the week, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was subjected to daily incursions, and the occupation forces closed the doors of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron to worshipers to enable settlers to perform their Talmudic rituals, and Israeli soldiers occupied 3 homes in the village of Faqqu’a in Jenin and the Shuweika suburb in Tulkarm and turned them into military barracks.
In terms of settlement activities, armed settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, began establishing a new settlement outpost west of the village of Farkha in Salfit, where they transported building materials and mobile homes to the site.