JEDDAH: At least 42,147 Palestinians have been killed and 101,568 injured in over eleven months of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, said the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in its weekly report from the Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against the Palestinians.
According to the report, the Israeli occupation forces have intensified the frequency of their deliberate attacks on shelters for the displaced in the Gaza Strip between September 17-23, 2024, and the number of martyrs monitored by the OIC Media Observatory has reached 229 martyrs, while the number of Palestinian injured has reached 501.
It noted that September 22, 2024, saw the 181st massacre targeting a shelter center in the Gaza Strip, after targeting Al-Falah School in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, which killed 20 Palestinians, including a fetus. It added that within 72 hours, the occupation forces committed 12 massacres, killing 119 Palestinians and injuring 209, in addition to blowing up residential blocks in Rafah.
The report added eight Palestinians were also martyred in an Israeli raid targeting Ibn Al-Haytham School in the Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza, in addition to other massacres in the Deir Al-Balah, Al-Daraj neighborhood, and homes in eastern Al-Bureih that were housing dozens of Palestinians.
It said the Gaza Strip is facing the highest inflation rate in the world, making it the most expensive place in the world in light of the scarcity of food commodities in the affected areas.
The OIC report further said in occupied Jerusalem, the occupation forces started laying the foundations for an escalator 200 meters from the Buraq Wall towards the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to facilitate the storming of the mosque’s courtyards by Jewish extremists.
The report from the organization’s office in Ramallah revealed that the number of those who stormed the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque between September 22-16, 2024 was about 1,794 assailants. The occupation forces also demolished two houses in the Al-Mabker neighborhood and the village of Al-Issawiya in occupied Jerusalem, in addition to demolishing a number of commercial and agricultural facilities in the village of Sur Baher, and settlers seized a residential apartment in the Al-Tur neighborhood in Jerusalem.
It said the number of martyrs in the West Bank has reached 12, while the occupation forces arrested 197 Palestinians and demolished 4 homes in each of Khirbet Jbara in Tulkarm, Qabatiya in Jenin, and the town of Beit Awa in Hebron, where they also demolished an agricultural barn for equipment and sheep with an area of 1000 square meters and two agricultural rooms, in addition to demolishing an agricultural room in Nablus and a water well in the town of Yatta in Hebron, besides bulldozing an area of 6 dunams planted with olive trees in the town of Nahalin and the village of Husan.
They also besieged school students inside their schools in the town of Qabatiya in Jenin, where they destroyed parts of the infrastructure, causing damage to property, and attacked ambulance crews in Nablus.
It added the number of Israeli crimes throughout the Palestinian territories reached 1484 crimes of various types in one week.
