JEDDAH: At least 42,334, Palestinians have been killed and 102,109 injured in over eleven months of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, said the Weekly Report of the Media Observatory of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Israeli Crimes against the Palestinians.
According to the report, the Israeli occupation forces have continued to strike safe havens in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians. It said the total number of Palestinians murdered from September 24 to 30, 2024, has reached 171.
“The number of Palestinians murdered from October 7, 2023, to September 30, 2024, has reached 42,334, with 102,109 injured,” it said.
The report said during the past seven days, the occupation army has targeted the tents housing the displaced Palestinians in the west of the city of Deir al-Balah, and homes in the city of Khan Yunis. The OIC Observatory also documented the clear targeting of the displaced at Al-Faluja School in Jabalia camp, as well as Umm Al-Fahm and Abu Jaafar schools in Beit Lahia. A number of others were murdered in an Israeli bombardment of the displaced people’s tents around Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Satellite Center issued an assessment of the demolished structures in the Gaza Strip, which showed that two-thirds of all the buildings in the Strip were damaged, totaling about 66 percent, and included 163,778 buildings, according to images collected on September 3-6, 2024.
The UN said that 52,564 buildings were completely destroyed, 18,913 buildings were badly damaged, 35,591 buildings were possibly damaged, and 56,710 buildings were moderately damaged. According to the images, the Gaza Governorate was the most affected area by the destruction.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that it was unable to make adequate preparations for the rainy season in the Gaza Strip, because of the obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation forces.
At the same time, reports show that more than 90 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip had already been displaced from their homes during the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza.
The OIC’s Observatory noted the near-disappearance of the coverage of Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip from the media scene. It said in the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, two Palestinians were killed in Hebron and Jenin over the past week, while the occupation forces arrested 231 Palestinians.
“Jewish extremists continued to storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Al-Quds. Meanwhile, the occupation forces prevented members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the State of Palestine from entering the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in order to hide the crimes committed by Israel,” it said.
The report added the Israeli occupation forces also evacuated worshipers from the mosque to make way for Jewish settlers to perform their Talmudic rituals. They also stopped the morning prayer call at the mosque for 16 consecutive days as of the writing of this report.
It added the occupation forces demolished nine homes in Al-Quds, Jericho, Hebron, Jenin, and Tubas, burned a home in Jenin camp, removed ten barns in Jenin and Hebron, destroyed a blacksmith workshop and confiscated its equipment in Qalqilya, and confiscated the contents of a grocery store as well. They also demolished five water collection wells and damaged water tanks in the town of Beit Ula in Hebron.
It observed that the occupation forces bulldozed streets and destroyed infrastructure in Jenin, besieged the government and Ibn Sina hospitals in Jenin, and searched ambulances at the government hospital. They bulldozed streets and infrastructure and damaged other shops during their raid on the Balata camp in Nablus.
The toll number of crimes and violations committed by the occupation forces during the aforementioned period reached 1,622 across the occupied Palestinian territories.
