Gaza City: Israel's crimes have increased regularly and rapidly over the past week in the northern Gaza Strip, and it has returned to the policy of starvation, mass killing, and forced displacement targeting the displaced, as highlighted by the OIC press release issued today. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Media Observatory for Israel's Crimes against the Palestinians monitored the number of murdered in the Gaza Strip from November 5-11, 2024, at 242 murdered, while the number of injured reached 662. The OIC Observatory also recorded the occurrence of zero massacres, most of which were concentrated in Northern and central Gaza. According to Saudi Press Agency, the release added that the Israeli bombing focused on shelters in northern Gaza. It targeted the Hamada family and murdered women and children in the bombing of the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza. In addition, 12 Palestinians were murdered in an air strike that targeted the Shuhaibar School, which shelters displaced people and is affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The Israeli forces ordered residents of North Beach, Al-Nasr, Abd al-Rahman, and the city of return and dignity, located West and Northwest of Gaza City, to move south. The UN confirmed that 85% of attempts to coordinate the entry of aid convoys and humanitarian visits to northern Gaza are rejected or obstructed by Israel despite the harsh conditions the Gaza Strip is going through. In the West Bank and occupied al-Quds, the OIC Observatory recorded 12 murdered and 29 injuries, while the occupation forces arrested 189 others. The total number of Palestinian murdered since October 7, 2023, to November 11, 2024, reached 44,383, while the number of injured for the same period reached 109,179. The occupation forces demolished, burned, and occupied 22 homes within one week. It demolished 16 houses distributed across the West Bank and occupied al-Quds, burned another in Jenin camp, occupied a house in Rama llah, demolished a shop, and burned another in Tulkarm camp, and settlers destroyed four caravans in the town of Sa'ir in Hebron and expelled its residents. In the same context, the occupation forces bulldozed streets and destroyed infrastructure facilities in Al-Far'a camp, the town of Tamoun in Tubas, the town of Qabatiya in Jenin, and the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm, in addition to bulldozing an agricultural area between the towns of Qarawa and Bani Hassan and the village of Sarta in Salfit. The OIC Observatory documented 53 attacks carried out by settlers against villages and towns in the West Bank and occupied al-Quds, while attacks on the olive harvest season continued, as 27 Palestinian villages were subjected to 38 aggressions. Israeli extremists continued to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque throughout most days of the week, and settlers also attacked worshipers during dawn in a mosque in the village of Burqa in Nablus and smashed the windows of a vehicle in front of the mosque. Settlers also burned a Palesti nian car in the village of Kafr Malik in Ramallah, and killed an elderly Palestinian after spraying pepper gas in his face, which led to his suffocation. The OIC Observatory recorded five settlement activities during the mentioned period, the most prominent of which was the settlers seizing a plot of land and planting it with olive trees in the northern Jordan Valley. The OIC Observatory documented 1,855 Israeli crimes between November 5 and 11, which also included the occupation forces storming the Church of Pater Noster located in the upper part of the Mount of Olives in al-Quds, which is run by France, coinciding with the arrival of the French Foreign Minister, in addition to numerous attacks on the education sector in Tubas Governorate, including the storming of two schools.
Sunday, April 26, 2026