Israel Commits 3,496 Crimes, Killing, Injuring 2,652 Palestinians in 7 Days

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Jeddah, 01-07-2025: The catastrophic humanitarian situation for infants in the Gaza Strip and the attacks on West Bank villages by settlers highlight the disturbing reality of Israeli crimes against Palestinians. Between June 24 and June 30, 2025, a staggering 3,496 crimes were reported. During this period, occupying forces bombed five schools consecutively. The targeted schools included Fahd Al-Sabah School in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, Abdul Fattah Hamoud School on Jaffa Street, Osama Bin Zaid School in Al-Saftawi, Adnan Al-Alami School west of Gaza City, and another school in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. Additionally, a popular market on Jaffa Street, which is frequented by thousands, and a beachfront restaurant in Gaza City were also bombed. Reports indicate that the number of Palestinians killed while seeking food has reached 580, bringing the total number of Palestinian fatalities caused by Israeli military forces in that single week to 536. The number of wounded individuals has reached 2,116.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation's Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians has reported on the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces between October 7, 2023, and June 30, 2025. During this period, there have been 58,035 deaths and 142,235 injuries. 

In terms of the humanitarian situation, 66 infants have died from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, and approximately 70,000 infants are suffering from health issues related to chronic malnutrition. Additionally, essential neonatal vaccines have been unavailable in Gaza for the past four months. 

Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), described the situation in the Gaza Strip as "absolutely dire." He noted that international attention to Gaza has significantly declined since June 13, 2025, which coincided with the destruction of 74% of the region's water wells and the ongoing struggles of residents who are facing contaminated drinking water.

In the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, Israeli forces conducted 279 incursions, resulting in the death of one child and the arrest of nine others, among a total of 216 Palestinian detainees. A school in the village of Jalud was raided, and surveillance camera footage was confiscated. 

Although the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque were reopened, the occupation forces prevented Waqf employees from entering the Noble Sanctuary, which continues to face frequent settler incursions.

Additionally, the occupation forces issued an order to confiscate more than two dunams of land in the town of Ya'bad in Jenin, as well as five vehicles and cash. They demolished four homes in Al-Quds and Jenin and occupied three homes in Nablus and Jenin. They also demolished several shops, a car wash, and an agricultural nursery in the town of Kifl Haris in Salfit. Further demolitions included two pens in Dura Al-Qar'a and the village of Wadi Rahhal in Bethlehem, as well as water wells and agricultural land.

Settlement activities in West Bank towns and villages reached 15, with a focus on decisions by the occupation authorities to confiscate Palestinian lands in the Masafer area of Yatta. Additional sites included land between the settlements of Ibei Hanahal and Ma'ale Amos in the Bethlehem area, the road adjacent to Wadi Azriq in Hizma, and the Jabal al-Masalma area in the village of Raba in Jenin, all for the benefit of settlement projects.

In a related context, occupation forces erected three mobile homes north of Salfit, bulldozed agricultural land in Husan near the Beitar Illit settlement, uprooted dozens of olive trees, and transferred 12 mobile homes to a new settlement outpost on Jabal al-Kadan from land in Kafr Qaddum. The new settlement, renamed the "Gideon Neighborhood" and part of the Kedumim settlement, is home to 10 settler families. Settlers also fenced off land near Palestinian tents in the Al-Farisiya area of Tubas and areas between the villages of Qaryut and Jalud in Nablus. They bulldozed land, paved roads, and uprooted olive trees west of the village of Deir Ammar in Ramallah, as well as agricultural land in Aqraba in Nablus, to seize more territory. They filled in water collection wells to expand the Daniel settlement in the Shoshala area, south of Al-Khader. Settlers set up tents on Palestinian land south of Asira Al-Qibliya in Nablus, as well as on other Palestinian land near the Karmei Tzur settlement in the Hebron area. They vandalized a water well and established a new settlement outpost near Arab al-Kaabneh in the Wadi Al-Qelt area, west of Jericho. 

In just one week, the OIC’s Observatory recorded 70 settler attacks on Palestinian towns and villages. Notably, a raid on the village of Kafr Malik in Ramallah resulted in the deaths of three Palestinians, injuries to ten others, and the burning of ten vehicles. Further incidents included attacks on Palestinian homes, theft of property in the Masafer area of Yatta in Hebron, and storming the outskirts of Al-Mazra'a Al-Gharbiya in Ramallah. Settlers stole gas cylinders, destroyed a sign for the Al-Quds Water Authority, stole a horse in Wadi Fukin, and released livestock in Arab Al-Malihat in Jericho.  They burned vehicles and Palestinian property, grazed cattle on agricultural land, and cut tree branches in the Masafer area of Yatta. Settlers also stormed the village of Susya in Hebron, burned agricultural land on the outskirts of Asira Al-Qibliya and Yatma in Nablus, and uprooted 260 trees in Aqraba, Azzun in Qalqilya, and Turmus Ayya in Ramallah. They demolished a barn in Yatta and burned a hut in the village of Hizma in Al-Quds. – OIC News