Israel Turns Northern Gaza into Hell to Expel Its Residents to Center, South

The Israeli occupation forces have adopted a cumulative escalation policy since October 2023, aiming to make the Gaza Strip a hell unfit for living by destroying infrastructure and service centers, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid, bombing bakeries, disabling and evacuating hospitals, and committing various other war crimes. As a result of these crimes, nearly two million people, most of whom are displaced, are now crowded into an extremely narrow area, thus becoming a repellent area that pushes its residents to voluntary migration.

In the past seven days, December 3-9, 2024, the OIC Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes against Palestinians documented a large number of crimes committed by Israel, the occupying power. These include the bombing and storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital and forcing its medical staff, including Indonesian doctors to leave. The Israeli forces also besieged the Indonesian hospital and demolished its outer wall, while Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia camp was subjected to artillery shelling, thus disabling all hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip in Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun. The occupation forces also massacred Palestinians sheltering in Jabalia, Al-Bureij, Al-Nuseirat and Al-Mawasi. The occupation forces also dug up a cemetery in Jabalia in search of the bodies of Israeli prisoners, and evacuated areas in Beit Lahia.

During the mentioned period, the OIC Observatory recorded the murder of 293 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and seven others in the West Bank, in addition to wounding 800 Palestinians. The total number of massacres over the course of one week alone amounted to 24 massacres, while the number of murdered from October 7, 2023 to December 7, 2024 amounted to 45470 murdered and 112226 wounded.

On the other hand, Israel, the occupying power, extended its declared war on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) beyond the Palestinian territories to several major cities around the world. This campaign involves misleading messages through paid advertisements in the public spaces of those cities aimed at tarnishing UNRWA’s reputation, calling for its dismantling and accusing it of “terrorism”. UNRWA has condemned these actions and demanded through its website for an end to the campaign and to hold those responsible for this misleading campaign accountable.

In occupied al-Quds, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was subjected to daily Israeli raids. The occupation forces demolished three homes, a commercial store and four barns. In the West Bank, the occupation forces demolished seven homes in Bethlehem, three commercial establishments in Nablus, and three barns in Bethlehem. Settlers burned a house and a grocery store in Nablus, while the Israeli occupation forces burned a house and two vehicles in Nablus in an exchange of roles between the settlers and the occupation soldiers who occupied a home in Jenin.

In one week, the occupation forces arrested 185 Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied al-Quds, while the settlers launched 38 raids on cities, villages and towns in the West Bank and occupied al-Quds. The total number of settler attacks on the Palestinian territories over the period from October 7, 2023, to November 30, 2024, amounted to 2621 attacks, with the highest number of these attacks occurring in October 2023 with 343 attacks, followed by October 2024 with 251 attacks and May 2024 coming third with 225 attacks. The villages of Nablus city were the most exposed to these attacks with 602 attacks during the mentioned period, followed by the villages of Hebron with 592 attacks, and the villages of Ramallah third with 330 attacks. According to OIC Observatory’s monitoring of the period between December 3-9, 2024, there were six settlement activities recorded during the period ranging from setting up mobile homes and tents on Palestinian lands in Ramallah and Nablus or plowing, planting and installing barbed wire around other lands with the aim of seizing them in Hebron, Tubas and Jericho.

With regard to the crimes of the occupation forces, they killed an elderly Palestinian after severely beating him and confiscating his car in Nablus. They also stormed two schools in the villages of Bardala and Barziq in Tubas and the Arab Specialized Hospital in Nablus, prevented Palestinian farmers from plowing their land, confiscated their agricultural equipment and cut the branches of 60 olive and grape trees.

Finally, the total number of crimes committed by Israel, the occupying power, over the past week amounted to 1989 crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory.