Israel Resumes Massacres in the Gaza Strip: 143 Killed and Wounded in One Week
Ramallah, April 14, 2026
Israeli occupation forces demolished 21 homes in the West Bank in a single week, including 17 in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) alone, occupied another home in Jenin and converted it into a military barracks, and bulldozed and uprooted trees from lands in six different areas, in addition to lands covering an area of 33,000 square meters in the Nablus governorate.
The Media Observatory of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians documented, during the period from April 7 to 13, 2026, 432 incursions by the Israeli occupation forces into West Bank areas, during which occupation forces killed 3 Palestinians, wounded 22, arrested 189 others, and confiscated two bulldozers, a vehicle, and computer equipment.
Regarding violations against places of worship, the OIC Media Observatory recorded daily raids by Israeli extremists on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the most notable of which was the raid by the occupation government’s Minister of Security, the extremist “Itamar Ben-Gvir,” following its closure for 40 consecutive days. It also arrested the head of the cleaning department at Al-Aqsa and a Palestinian at Bab al-Asbat, amid attacks by occupation forces on Orthodox Christians during their Easter celebrations in Al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Occupation forces raised Israeli flags over the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, and last Friday, settlers attacked a mosque in the town of Beit Furik near Nablus and another in the village of Khalil al-Luz in Bethlehem, while occupation forces stormed a mosque in the town of Al-Ubaidiya in the same governorate.
Between April 7 and 13, 2026, the OIC Media Observatory documented attacks targeting children, in which Israeli occupation forces wounded one child, beat another, and arrested 11 others, while settlers assaulted six children and abducted another, storming a school and a kindergarten in the Al-Malih area of Tubas and destroyed their contents.
The number of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian towns and villages reached 149, including the displacement of five Bedouin families near the town of Al-Auja in Jericho. They also released their livestock into grazing areas and agricultural lands 17 times across five different areas, and stole a tractor, a car, construction equipment and materials, a water tank, a farm trailer, 119 sheep from seven different areas, beehives, cell phones, and $3,600.
The Israeli settlers removed the gate of a water spring near the village of Beit Iksa, prevented Palestinians from accessing another spring, and damaged a water meter and a water pump, burned part of a house, two bulldozers, a tent, and a barn; destroyed agricultural greenhouses, beehives, and crops; damaged two vehicles; and uprooted and cut the branches of olive trees in three villages in Salfit and Nablus, as well as 180 olive saplings in Ramallah and Hebron.
Israeli settlement activities over the course of a single week totaled 15 incidents, during which settlers erected a tent on land belonging to a Palestinian resident of the town of Yatta, and another west of the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem, in the Tel Ma’in area, and south of the Wadi al-Rakhim area, as well as mobile homes in the town of al-Dhahiriya. The Israeli settlers also established a settlement outpost north of the village of Madama in Nablus, expanded a settlement outpost northwest of the town of Sinjil, and erected a fence around a 3,000-square-meter plot of land in the village of Al-Janiya in Ramallah and in the Al-Farsiya area of Tubas. They also raised the Israeli occupation flag on land west of the town of Kafr al-Dik in Salfit, and they repeated their attempts to establish settlement outposts in five areas in Nablus. Settlement activities between October 7, 2023, and April 13, 2026, totaled 878 incidents, reflecting the scale of the Israeli occupation’s attempts to seize more land in the West Bank.
The total number of Israeli crimes over the past week reached 1,264. In the Gaza Strip, occupation forces continued to shell various areas, including a massacre east of the Maghazi refugee camp, as well as shelling the Sheikh Nasser neighborhood in central Khan Yunis, the southern part of Khan Yunis, the Al-Bureij refugee camp, the town of Beit Lahia, the area near Al-Mazra’a School in Deir al-Balah, and the Jabalia refugee camp. The Israeli occupation forces also announced the closure of the Rafah Crossing. The continuous shelling resulted in 31 Palestinian martyrs and 112 wounded, in addition to the recovery of the body of one of the martyrs, bringing the total number of Palestinian martyrs from October 7, 2023, to April 13, 2026, to 73,480 martyrs and 182,808 wounded across various Palestinian areas.