Israel Kills 740 Palestinians, Including 152 Aid-seekers, in 7 Days
Extensive destruction in Gaza City due to the Israeli aggression. Photo from the Palestinian News Agency – (PNA).
August 26, 2025
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded 740 Palestinians murdered between August 19 and 25, 2025, including 438 murdered last week, including 152 who were waiting for aid. 298 murdered Palestinians among the victims were fully identified, while four bodies were recovered, and 2,043 others were injured. The OIC Observatory also recorded that between October 7, 2023, and August 25, 2025, the Israeli occupation has murdered 63,715 Palestinians and injured 166,963 others during the same period.
For the first time, the United Nations declared a famine in Gaza City. The joint UN declaration was signed by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Food Programme, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces began military operations to seize control of the city, destroying 450 homes in the Zeitoun neighborhood. Continuing their targeting of food resources and starvation policy inside the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces murdered five farmers northwest of Khan Yunis, destroyed camps for displaced persons in Deir al-Balah after warning residents to evacuate, displacing 200 families, and targeted a school in the Shati refugee camp.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reported that malnutrition cases among children have tripled in less than six months in the Gaza Strip, noting that one in three children suffers from malnutrition. On the other hand, UNRWA confirmed that 360 international staff were murdered during the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
In a grave escalation, the Israeli occupation forces targeted journalists, doctors, civil defense workers, and civilians with a single shell as part of a comprehensive war crime when they deliberately bombed the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. The occupation forces murdered six journalists, a doctor, and a number of civil defense personnel, in addition to patients at the Nasser Medical Complex, and others after launching two successive shells at the upper part of the hospital. This brings the number of journalists murdered by Israel in the Gaza Strip, as of August 25, 2025, to 246. This comes amid a demand by 17 members of the US Senate for journalists to enter the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a media blackout by the Israeli occupation since October 7, 2023.
In the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, the OIC Media Observatory documented the 57th anniversary of the burning of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, with 588 violations occurring between October 7, 2023, and August 25, 2025. Last week, Israeli occupation forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, preventing worshippers from entering, and raided a mosque in Nablus.
The Israeli occupation forces are practicing a policy of individual exhaustion against Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds. They arrested 170 Palestinians and raided West Bank cities and villages 292 times. They demolished residential facilities, two homes, a café, a wall, several commercial establishments, and five animal pens. They also bulldozed an area of land in the village of Rujeib in Nablus, uprooted thousands of olive trees, and confiscated two vehicles in the village of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah. They also damaged vehicles and confiscated a bulldozer during their raids on the city of Hebron and its villages. They also issued orders to confiscate 20,312 dunams of land in the towns of Deir Ballut and Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit, in addition to $106,600 from Palestinians, an agricultural tractor in Tubas, and four vehicles and a motorcycle in Al-Quds. The occupation forces displaced 17 Palestinian families from their homes in the Al-Mashahid neighborhood in the village of Umm Tuba in Al-Quds after confiscating the land on which the homes were built for the benefit of the Jewish National Fund.
In terms of settler attacks, West Bank villages were subjected to 64 attacks and 11 settlement activities, as settlers grazed their livestock on the lands of the villages of Aqraba and Urif in Nablus, the Sahl al-Rafid area in the town of al-Mughayyir, the village of Yabrud in Ramallah, the village of Farkha in Salfit, and the Masafer of the town of Yatta in Hebron. They bulldozed agricultural lands in the village of Turmus Ayya in Ramallah, and the village of al-Rihiya in Hebron, and burned agricultural lands in the Wadi Sa’ir area and a house in Halhul in Hebron.
They cut down tree branches in the town of Atara in Ramallah and stole agricultural equipment from there. They also cut down tree branches in the villages of Rujeib in Nablus and Haris in Salfit. They also cut down trees and tree branches in the town of Ash-Shuyukh in Hebron.
Settlers assaulted Palestinians and smashed the windows of homes and cars in the villages of Susya in Hebron, Qusra in Nablus, and Jalazone refugee camp in Ramallah. They also stole 13 cows in the village of Einabus in Nablus, and seized agricultural equipment in the town of Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit.
Regarding settlement activities, the occupation authorities approved a plan to build 3,401 settlement housing units and a new settlement comprising 342 housing units and public buildings. They also carried out excavation and bulldozing operations in the lands of the village of Al-Mughayyir over a period of three days, with the aim of paving a settlement road.
Settlers bulldozed land in the village of Beit Dajan in Nablus with the aim of expanding a settlement outpost. Others carried out excavation and bulldozing operations, and erected three tents and furnished them in a new settlement outpost in the Huwara area in the Masafer town of Yatta. Settlers paved two settlement roads on the lands of the village of Umm Safa and the town of Deir Badwan in Ramallah, and a road between the “Havat Ma’on” settlement outpost and the Al-Hamra area in the Masafer town of Yatta. Settlers erected dozens of mobile homes south of the town of Bani Na’im in Hebron, with the aim of establishing three settlement outposts. They erected a large menorah in the area, and placed mobile homes on top of a mountain in the village of Rujeib in Nablus.
During the week alone, the OIC Media Observatory documented 3,611 crimes committed by the Israeli occupation across Palestinian territories.