Israeli occupation forces demolish 31 buildings and confiscate and bulldoze lands and properties in the West Bank
Israeli occupation forces demolished buildings in various Palestinian cities in the West Bank. (Wafa News Agency)
Ramallah, February 17, 2026
The OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians recorded the killing of 23 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by the occupation forces, in addition to the recovery of 9 bodies from under the rubble, and the documentation of 66 injuries during the period between February 10-16, 2026. The OIC Observatory also documented the total number of murdered from October 7, 2023, until February 16, 2026, at approximately 72,980, in addition to 181,212 injuries.
The Gaza Strip was subjected to daily Israeli bombardment throughout the said period, targeting the central, northern, and southern parts of Gaza, particularly the Zeitoun neighborhood and the eastern part of the Tuffah neighborhood. The Israeli demolition of buildings continued in Khan Younis and the eastern part of the Zeitoun neighborhood.
The occupation forces’ continued violations of the ceasefire agreement come amid warnings of the collapse of the health sector in the Gaza Strip and the inability of civil defense and ambulance crews to rescue victims trapped under the rubble each time buildings and refugee camps are targeted by Israeli bombardment.
In a first-of-its-kind move, Israel, the occupying power, revoked the Israeli citizenship of two Palestinian citizens of Israel and deported them to the Gaza Strip, marking the first application of the citizenship revocation law.
The cities and villages of the West Bank were subjected to 352 Israeli incursions, during which occupation forces injured 26 Palestinians, including a child, and arrested 255 others, including eight children.
Regarding attacks on children, Israeli occupation forces raided a secondary school during school hours in the village of Yasuf, removing the Palestinian flag from its roof. Settlers provoked Palestinians in front of a school in the Hammamat al-Malih area of Tubas and stormed a girls’ school in the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, near Nablus.
In the context of crimes within the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces prevented 14 Palestinians from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for periods ranging from one to two weeks to six months, amidst daily incursions into Al-Aqsa by Israeli extremists. Israeli forces also raided the Muhammad Ali al-Muhtasib Hospital in Hebron, assaulting patients and medical staff present.
The occupation forces demolished 14 houses, more than 13 barns, a car repair workshop, a car wash, a poultry farm, a commercial shop, metal roofs, and several fences. They also filled in a water collection pond, bulldozed three agricultural lands, and their bulldozers ran over and killed a number of sheep. They confiscated the land of the archaeological site of Tel Ma’in in Masafer Yatta, Hebron, to establish a military observation tower. They also confiscated two vehicles, a bulldozer, and a water tanker.
The OIC Observatory recorded 107 attacks by settlers in a single week, during which 15 families from the Bedouin community of Ein al-Duyuk al-Tahta village, west of Jericho, were forcibly displaced from their homes after their houses and livestock pens were demolished. Settlers also burned the tents of Palestinians who had been previously displaced from the al-Mayta Bedouin area in Tubas.
Settlers released livestock in 30 different areas in Tubas, Nablus, Jericho, Hebron, Ramallah, and Bethlehem. They demolished two homes and livestock pens, smashed vehicle windows, and stormed the Bir Jaba’ water station, depriving residents of ten villages in Jenin of water. They cut a water line supplying a house in Jericho and another in Bethlehem, and stole three cars, two tractors, a water tanker, mobile phones, cash, household items, a fence, building materials, and a horse. They also damaged the tires of ten trucks and cut the branches of more than 300 olive trees.
In seven days, seven settlement activities took place, including settlers seizing caves belonging to a Palestinian family in Masafer Yatta to establish an outpost; bulldozing Palestinian-owned land in the towns of Qusra (Nablus), Deir Istiya (Salfit), and Al-Mughayyir (Ramallah); and fencing off land in Al-Mughayyir and another 15,000-square-meter plot in Khirbet Samra (Tubas) with the aim of seizing it. This brings the total number of Israeli crimes in a single week to approximately 1,079.