JEDDAH: Israel has isolated the northern Gaza Strip and intensified its crimes against civilians, especially in the period between October 8-14, 2024, said the Weekly Report of the Media Observatory of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Israeli Crimes against the Palestinians on Tuesday.
It said that the Israeli occupation forces have isolated 400,000 Palestinians residing in the northern areas, stopping the entry of humanitarian assistance to them and reinstating the Israeli starvation policy.
During the period intensive shelling of homes and tents was noted especially the burning of displaced people living in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, which was targeted several times recently, in addition to Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, which the occupation forces threatened to evacuate, along with the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital.
Jabalia camp was also seized and shelled, in addition to Rufaida School and the Girls’ School in Jabalia, along with intensive shelling that targeted the remaining homes in those areas.
The report said that there are 12,000 injured people in need of urgent travel for treatment, 10,000 cancer patients facing the risk of death, and 3,000 patients with different chronic diseases who are deprived of treatment. Furthermore, more than 1.5 million people are suffering from infectious diseases because of the conditions of displacement.
The report added the health situation in the Gaza Strip has become catastrophic under the weight of a full year of aggression, which has caused the closure of 20 hospitals (private and governmental) out of 35 hospitals, while the remaining 15 hospitals are operating partially, in addition to the exit of 80 health centers out of 90 from service.
It said the number of Palestinians killed over the period October 8-14, 2024, was 389, while the number of injured was 1403, and the number of people killed since October 7, 2023 – October 14, 2024, was 43043, and the injured was 104934.
The report said in the West Bank, the occupation forces apprehended 245 Palestinians in one week, caused extensive damage to infrastructure and property in the Far’a camp in Tubas, demolished eight houses in Hebron and Salfit, occupied three others in Hebron and Tulkarm, and demolished five water pools in Nablus and Jenin.
The occupation authorities have also ordered the confiscation of the land on which the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is located in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and converted it into a new settlement outpost comprising 1,440 housing units, in addition to lands belonging to the town of Kifl Haris. 10 dunums of agricultural land were bulldozed in Beit Ummar in Hebron.
The OIC Observatory documented that 46 Palestinian villages were subjected to continuous aggression by both the occupation forces and settlers, through preventing farmers from harvesting their olive crops and assaulting them, uprooting trees, stealing or destroying crops, cutting off their branches and burning them, stealing crop harvesting equipment, and blocking and bulldozing roads leading to agricultural lands.
The Observatory also recorded raids on the villages of Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Salfit, Ramallah, Hebron and Tulkarm, while dozens of other attacks are taking place that are difficult to monitor due to their widespread nature across various villages in the West Bank.
The report said while settlers storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque almost daily, the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron has been suffering for more than a month from a ban on prayer in it in order to clear the place for settlers to perform their Talmudic rituals during the Jewish holidays.
It added the total number of Israeli crimes during the past week has reached 2841 crimes, which targeted various Palestinian groups and regions.
