Jeddah (UNA) – Israel’s crimes have increased in the northern Gaza Strip over the past week in a frenzied manner, as if in a race against time, as it has returned to the policy of starvation, mass killing and forced displacement targeting the displaced.

The Media Observatory of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for Israeli Crimes against the Palestinians documented the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip, from November 5 to 11, 2024, at (242) martyrs, while the number of wounded reached (662) wounded. The Observatory also recorded the occurrence of (19) massacres, most of which were concentrated in the north and center of the Strip.

The Israeli bombing focused on shelters in the northern Gaza Strip, where it targeted the Hamada family, killing women and children in the bombing of the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza. The occupation army also killed 12 Palestinians in an airstrike that targeted the Sheheiber School, which shelters displaced people and is affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

The occupation forces ordered the residents of the northern beach, Al-Nasr, Abd al-Rahman, and the city of return and dignity, which is located west and northwest of Gaza City, to move south.

The United Nations confirmed that 85% of attempts to coordinate the entry of aid convoys and humanitarian visits to the northern Gaza Strip are rejected or obstructed by Israel despite the harsh conditions the Strip is going through.

In the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, the organization’s observatory recorded the fall of (12) martyrs and (29) wounded, while the occupation forces arrested (189) others, bringing the total number of Palestinian martyrs since October 7, 2023 to November 11, 2024, to (44383), while the number of wounded for the same period reached (109179) wounded.

In terms of demolishing, occupying and burning homes, the number of homes during the monitoring week reached (22) homes, as the occupation forces demolished 16 homes distributed across the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, burned another in Jenin camp, occupied a home in Ramallah, demolished a commercial store and burned another in Tulkarm camp, and settlers destroyed 4 caravans (mobile homes) in the town of Sa’ir in Hebron, and expelled their residents.

In the same context, the occupation forces bulldozed streets and destroyed infrastructure facilities in Al-Far’a camp, Tamoun town in Tubas, Qabatiya town in Jenin, and Nour 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 organization’s observatory documented (53) raids carried out by settlers against villages and towns in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, while attacks on the olive harvest season continued, as 27 Palestinian villages were subjected to 38 attacks that varied between preventing farm owners from harvesting their crops, cutting, uprooting and burning olive trees, bulldozing agricultural lands, blocking roads leading to them and stealing olive crops. The occupation forces participated in the looting and repression operations, while the attacks focused on the villages of Nablus Governorate.

Extremists continued to storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque throughout most days of the week, and settlers attacked worshipers during dawn prayers in a mosque in the village of Burqa in Nablus and smashed the windows of a vehicle in front of the mosque, and others burned a Palestinian 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 Observatory recorded (5) 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. Others built a mobile home on land overlooking the village of Khalayel al-Loz in Bethlehem, in addition to the village of Jalud, with the aim of turning them into settlement outposts. Others plowed lands and stole mobile homes in the village of Khalayel al-Loz, in preparation for seizing them.

The Observatory documented between November 5 and 11 the commission of (1855) crimes by the occupation forces and settlers, which also included the occupation forces storming the “Pater Noster (Our Father)” Church located in the upper part of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, 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 storming the Al-Maleh Elementary School and another girls’ school.

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