Israel tightened a closed circle of genocide in the northern Gaza Strip, which has already begun in the Jabalia camp that has been subjected to numerous massacres. Besides, the camp is currently subjected to a forced displacement process. During the period from October 15 to October 21, 2024, the OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against the Palestinians recorded 26 massacres, most of which were concentrated in the northern Gaza Strip, with 316 martyrs in addition to 1,155 wounded. The total number of martyrs from October 7, 2023, to October 20, 2024, amounted to (43,362) and the wounded to (106,045).
The mentioned period witnessed the concentration of Israeli crimes in Jabalia camp, where the occupation forces bombed Abu Hussein School causing it to burn down, and targeted Hafsa School which is affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and where displaced persons are housed. They further killed fifty Palestinians when they bombed the homes of the Hawajri family and ended up forcing the Palestinians to leave the camp at gunpoint.
In Beit Lahia, the occupation forces killed 73 Palestinians, and bombed and stormed the tents of the displaced people around the Indonesian Hospital, causing the hospital generators to burn down as part of a plan to further displace the displaced people hiding around it.
The occupation forces equally bombed a school in Al-Shati camp and burned Hamad School in the northern Gaza Strip in addition to an inhabited house in Tal Al-Hawa, which resulted in the martyrdom of 8 Palestinians.
In terms of violations against Palestinian sanctities, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was subjected to almost daily incursions during which the total number of intruders reached 3,522 extremists. During these incidents, the trumpet was blown twice inside the mosque compound in a blatant assault on the privacy of the noble sanctuary, while the occupation forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque to Palestinian worshipers in the city of Hebron to enable settlers to perform their Talmudic prayers there.
In the West Bank, the occupation forces killed 6 Palestinians during the week, injured 39 others, and arrested 146 Palestinians. They also demolished 5 homes in Jerusalem, Salfit, and Jericho, burned 3 homes in Nablus, and occupied 4 homes in Tulkarm and Jenin, turning them into military barracks.
The occupation forces also demolished a commercial facility in Jerusalem, a gas station in Nablus, and a sheep pen in Tubas, while settlers burned two poultry farms and a residential room in Yatta, Hebron. Moreover, the occupation forces confiscated 26,944 dunums of land from the village of Jaba by military order, to establish a buffer zone around the settlement of "Adam".
As for the systematic Israeli campaign against the olive harvest season in the West Bank, the observatory recorded 37 Palestinian villages being subjected to 50 attacks by the occupation forces and settlers on farmers to prevent them from harvesting olives in addition to uprooting 27 olive trees in Deir Ballut in Salfit, breaking their branches and burning them in Burqa and Jalud in Nablus, and destroying agricultural lands in Nahhalin in Bethlehem.
The number of attacks on agricultural lands in the West Bank reached 70 attacks, including the theft of olive crops in 3 villages in Hebron and Nablus in addition to closing the roads leading to agricultural lands in Kafr al-Dik in Salfit. The total number of settler attacks on Palestinian villages during the mentioned period was 59 attacks, during which they stole 200 sheep, an electricity generator, a cow milking machine, and 3 horses in the villages of Qusra and Jalud in Nablus. The week also witnessed 4 settlement activities, most of which were in the form of setting up mobile homes and tents, and furrowing roads amidst Palestinian lands. The total number of Israeli crimes during the period from October 15 to 21, 2024 was (2450) crimes throughout the Palestinian territories.
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