Nearly 1,000 Palestinians murdered and injured in Gaza in 7 days
Palestinian children are constant victims of the occupation forces. Photo from the Palestinian News and Information Agency – WAFA
April 22, 2025
Over the past seven days, Israel has continued its deliberate bombing of the tents of displaced people in the Gaza Strip, murdering and injuring nearly 1,000 Palestinians. After the occupation forces completed their first aggression by destroying residential homes in most cities in the Gaza Strip, they moved on to the second phase of bombing the tents of displaced people. This confirms that the Israeli aggression on Gaza aims to commit genocide against civilians.
According to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians, between April 15 and 21, 2025, 257 Palestinians were murdered in the Gaza Strip alone, and 657 were injured, while the total number of murdered in the Palestinian territories was 265, and 677 injured. The number of Palestinian murdered from October 7, 2023, until April 21, 2025, was 52,163, and 123,569 injured.
Over the course of a single week, Israeli bombardment extended across the entire Gaza Strip, from the North, center, and South, to the Jabalia, Nuseirat, Beit Lahia, Mawasi, and Khan Yunis refugee camps. Meanwhile, Israeli forces blew up Palestinian homes in Rafah, transforming half of the Gaza Strip into a security cordon following its third reoccupation.
In the West Bank, the occupation forces arrested 157 Palestinians, including 5 children. Palestinian children are constant victims of the occupation forces and settlers alike. The occupation forces injured two children in Nablus, and a settler stopped a vehicle carrying students from Hawara Elementary School and punctured one of its tires, to prevent the students from reaching the school in the East of the town of Yatta in Hebron, while another settler near the town of Beit Furik in Nablus kidnapped 3 children under the age of ten years and tied them to a tree trunk.
Regarding the settlers, the number of their attacks on Palestinian towns and villages amounted to (54) attacks. Settlers burned a car in the town of Kobar in Ramallah, and the occupation forces arrested the Palestinian car owner after he defended himself. Settlers stole two water tankers, damaged parts of the water network that supplies the village of Khirbet Yarza in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas, stole water pumps, destroyed agricultural crops, and smashed solar cells used to generate electricity in more than one village in the northern Jordan Valley. They smashed the windows of a passenger bus on the line to the town of Anata in Al-Quds, stole two calves from a Palestinian shepherd and killed a third in the Jabaris area in Tubas, cut down and uprooted 50 olive trees in the town of Deir Ballut in Salfit, burned agricultural crops in the Masafer town of Yatta in Hebron, and attacked agricultural facilities and crops in the town of Kafr ad-Dik and Deir Istiya in Salfit.
The number of settlement activities during the period from April 15 to 21, 2025 amounted to 5. The occupation authorities, among other activities, paved two settlement roads on Palestinian lands in Bethlehem and Nablus. Settlers bulldozed agricultural land and uprooted dozens of olive trees in the village of Umm al-Safa in Ramallah. Other settlers established a settlement outpost near Palestinian homes and adjacent to their agricultural lands, brought a herd of cattle to the town of Turmus Ayya, raised the occupation flag on Palestinian lands confiscated by the occupation forces in the Anab al-Kabira area, West of the town of Adh Dhahiriya in Hebron, and placed a fence around a plot of land in the Al-Rakeez area in the Masafer area of the town of Yatta in Hebron.
Israeli occupation forces raided West Bank cities and villages 318 times in seven days, demolishing 17 homes in Jenin, Ramallah, and Hebron. They occupied a building and turned it into a military post during their raid on the town of Turmus Ayya in Ramallah. They also demolished three sheep pens and vandalized the surrounding fence during their raid on the village of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah. They bulldozed Al-Matla Street and its infrastructure during their raid on the town of Tammun in Tubas, as well as main and secondary streets and infrastructure in the town of Burqin in Jenin. They detained an ambulance while transporting an injured person in the city of Al-Bireh in the Ramallah Governorate. The forces halted the construction of a new school in the village of Jit in Qalqilya. They seized a bulldozer, confiscated a cement mixer, electric cranes, an agricultural tractor, a vehicle, and a bulldozer in the Al-Zawiya area of the village of Beit Dajan in Nablus and in Salfit, and confiscated agricultural fertilizers from agricultural stores during their raid on the town of Zeita in Tulkarm.
The total number of Israeli crimes in one week reached 2,210, including continuous attacks on places of worship. The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was subjected to continuous violations during the period documented by the OIC Observatory. The most prominent of these was the storming of the Al-Aqsa courtyards by Israeli Knesset member Amit Halevy, accompanied by Israeli extremists, under the protection of the occupation police. Only a few days later, extremist Knesset member Zvi Sukkot, along with other settlers, stormed the mosque courtyards, conducting provocative tours and performing Talmudic rituals. Extremist settlers stormed the Bab al-Rahma Cemetery on the fifth day of Passover, and performed Talmudic rituals there.
Extremist Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron amid tight security measures. He and extremist settlers performed Talmudic dances and rituals in the compound’s courtyards. Occupation forces have continued to close the Mosque to worshippers over the past few days, allowing settlers to celebrate and perform Talmudic rituals inside the compound on the occasion of Passover.
The occupation forces tightened their measures at the checkpoints surrounding Al-Quds, reaching the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and in the neighborhoods of its town, coinciding with the Christian churches’ celebration of “Holy Saturday,” in order to obstruct the arrival of Christian worshippers to the church, and prevented them from entering, including the Apostolic Nuncio and Representative of the Vatican to the State of Palestine, Archbishop “Adolfo Tito Yllana,” to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. They also assaulted Palestinian Christians at the New Gate in Al-Quds, and prevented thousands of them from the West Bank from reaching Al-Quds to participate in the celebration of the occasion. They also prevented Christian worshippers from entering the Church of St. James, adjacent to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and closed its entrance with iron barriers.