A QUARTER OF GAZA RESIDENTS DECLARE FAMINE, 92 KILLED WHILE LOOKING FOR FOOD—-OCCUPATION FORCES INTENSFIES WEST BANK INCURSION INTO WEST BANK
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
02-09-2025
The Media Observatory of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for Israel's Crimes against the Palestinians has in the last 7 days (25 August -1 September 202)5 recoded 814 cases of martyrdom among Palestinians. 592 of them came under direct Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip, while 92 were killed as they waited for aid. Eleven (11) bodies were recovered in the Gaza Strip while 280 were confirmed dead following verification of their profiles. The West Bank recorded 1 case of martyrdom. In the Gaza Strip, 2448 have been wounded in the last 7 days alone. The Observatory has also recorded 64,529 deaths among Palestinians from 7 October 2023 until 1 September 2025, in addition to 169,411 cases of injury in the same period.
Regarding details of the situation in the Gaza Strip, 339 deaths were documented of Palestinians who died from starvation since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza until the end of last August. The Global Hunger Index (GHI) has reported that 514,000 Palestinians, meaning one quarter of the Gaza population face starvation.
Concerning the crimes of killing and displacement, the Israeli occupation forces killed journalist Islam Abid and her family in their apartment in Gaza. They also killed sportsman LouayAsteita in the Zakim sector while waiting for aid. Six other children were also killed in a strike on a tent and building in western Gaza. The Israeli forces bombed a gathering of people at a bakery and displaced persons camp west of Gaza. The city had witnessed the displacement of hundreds of Palestinians following the Israeli military attack on the city.
There were 365 incursions into West Bank cities and villages within 7 days. This intensified in the second half of last week when 160 Palestinians were detained, including 3 children in Ramallah and Bethlehem; 3 others were wounded in Hebron, while 6 schools were stormed and searched in Harat Sheikh in Hebron. The occupation forces carted away pictures and school book sand detained teachers.
One of the Rabis blew a trumpet in the compound of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in flagrant violation of the Mosque's sanctity.
The occupation forces demolished 4 houses, dozens of barns, rooms, agricultural sheds, and water tanks in Jerusalem, Nablus, and Bethlehem. Also damaged were a car park and a bakery in Bethlehem. They also bulldozed land in the village of NabiSaleh in Ramallah, the village of Rujeib in Nablus, and the village of Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit. They cut down and uprooted numerous trees in the village of Burqa in Nablus, the village of al-Issawiya in Al-Quds and the town of Asir in Hebron. They stole money from money exchange shops in Ramallah, seized computers from a money exchange shop in Tulkarm, and seized $42,510 from Palestinians. They also confiscated a truck in the town of Idhna, a private car in the al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron, a bulldozer in the village of Yatman in Nablus, and 2road-paving vehicles in the town of Kobar in Ramallah. The crimes committed by the occupation army and settlers in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and occupied Jerusalem totaled 4,158 in seven days.
Regarding settlement activity, settlers committed 57 violations over the past week, grazing their livestock in the Aqwawis area, the village of Umm al-Khair, and the Sha'b Umm al-Batm area in the Yatta area of Hebron, and in the village of Duma in Nablus. They also cut down tree branches in the village of al-Minya in Bethlehem.
Settlers also targeted livestock last week, stealing 20 camels from Khirbet Tawil al-Sheih in Hebron, poisoning two cows in Khirbet Jabaris in Tubas, stealing 200 sheep from the village of Kafr Malik in Ramallah, and attempting to steal sheep in the town of al-Qarawa in Salfit. Settlers attacked an artesian water well station in the Jerusalem Governorate, slashing tires, smashing windows, and destroying surveillance cameras. They also stole a residential tent in the al-Farisiya area of Tubas, and set fire to another tent and water tanks in the town of Sinjil in Ramallah.
Settlers and occupation forces carried out 12 settlement activities, including issuing two confiscation orders for 16 dunams of land in the village of Jinsafut to pave two settlement roads, the first connecting the settlements of Bakir and KarneiShomron, and the second connecting the settlements of Immanuel and Karnei Shomron.
Settlers set up mobile homes in the villages of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah, Umm Al-Khair in the Masafer area of Yatta town in Hebron, and Deir Istiya in Salfit, as well as residential tents on lands in the village of Tal in Nablus, with the aim of establishing new settlement outposts. Settlers expanded a settlement outpost in the village of Deir Razih in Hebron after bringing 30 new mobile homes. Settlers extended a plastic water network from a settlement outpost in a pastoral area in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas. Others bulldozed lands in the village of Al-Rihiya in Hebron and carried out excavation operations to expand the "Haggai" settlement. Others bulldozed 50 dunams of land in the Al-Sakout area in the northern Jordan Valley in Tubas with the aim of seizing and cultivating them, as well as lands estimated at hundreds of dunams north of the town of Al-Auja in Jericho.
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