The occupation forces increased their shelling of Jabalia camp and Beit Lahia town during October 22-28, 2024, in a week that witnessed one of the most heinous Israeli crimes represented by targeting hospitals in northern Gaza, evacuating them, and stopping civil defense services. During this period, the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip reached 421, while the number of wounded reached 1342. The total number of martyrs during the period from October 7, 2024, to October 28, 2024, is 43783 martyrs, while the number of wounded for the same period is 107360 persons.
Within the week of documentation of the OIC Media Observatory of Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, the week recorded the targeting of the Asma School of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Beit Lahia by the Israeli occupation forces, while the Israeli Knesset approved the ban on the UNRWA’s work in the Palestinian territories.
45 Palestinians were martyred and dozens were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted several homes in the Beit Lahia project. Two children were also martyred in Kamal Adwan Hospital, whose fuel generators and oxygen equipment were hit, in addition to the evacuation of most of its workers. Israeli shells also killed 5 Palestinians in a deliberate targeting of the gate of Al-Yaman Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia. The Israeli occupation banned the work of civil defense teams in the northern Gaza Strip, where it became clear that the Israeli measures aimed to forcefully displace its residents to areas in the central Gaza Strip.
A report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) noted that 80,000 homes were destroyed in the Gaza Strip, which needs 80 years to rebuild its homes, while its economy needs 350 years to return to its faltering state before the Israeli aggression.
In the West Bank, 4 Palestinians were killed in one week, 10 others were injured, and the occupation forces arrested 128 Palestinians. The number of settler attacks on Palestinian villages and towns reached about 62 attacks, most of which constituted a declared war on the olive harvest season, as settlers and occupation forces launched 41 attacks that were monitored in 36 villages, in addition to dozens of attacks that were not documented. These attacks varied between preventing Palestinians from harvesting their crops in 26 villages, and cutting, burning, and uprooting olive trees in 4 different villages, while 6 villages were subjected to looting and theft of olive crops and equipment used at that time.
During the past week, the Israeli forces perpetrated 2590 crimes including an incursion into Wadi Fukin School in Bethlehem by the occupation soldiers, forcing the teaching staff to evacuate it, while the settlers of the "Kfar Tapuah" settlement opened fire on a transformer supplying electricity to the village of Yasuf in Salfit, which led to a complete power outage. Moreover, the occupation forces prevented the repair of the transformer.
Settlers demolished 15 Palestinian homes and facilities in the village of Sa'ir in Al-Khalil (Hebron), and seized all their contents, including clothes, furniture, windows, and doors, in addition to seizing and destroying about 20 solar energy units and their batteries.
During this week, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was subjected to daily raids, and the occupation forces closed the doors of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil (Hebron) to worshipers to enable settlers to perform their Talmudic rituals. Additionally, the Israeli soldiers occupied 3 homes in the village of Faqqu'a in Jenin and the Shuweika suburb in Tulkarm and turned them into military barracks.
In terms of settlement activities, armed settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, began establishing a new settlement outpost west of the village of Farkha in Salfit, where they transported building materials and mobile homes to the site.