These developments came as Israeli forces targeted farmers in Beit Lahia and fishermen off the coast of Khan Yunis. The deliberate shelling of fishermen and farmers aims to deprive Palestinians of internal food sources following Israel’s complete closure of the Gaza Strip. This suffering comes as Palestinian sources announced the deaths of 53 children due to malnutrition.
The World Health Organization, Amnesty International, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) declared that the situation in the Gaza Strip has become catastrophic amid international failure. UNRWA indicated that what is happening constitutes collective Israeli punishment against Gaza’s civilian population.
The OIC Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded in its weekly report 258 deaths between April 29 and May 5, 2025, in addition to 840 injuries, while the total number of Israeli crimes in various Palestinian areas reached 2,470 crimes over a period of 7 days. The number of Palestinians killed from October 7, 2023, to May 5, 2025, reached 53,503, and the number of injured reached 125,191.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque has been subjected to daily raids by the occupation forces. They raided the Marwani prayer hall in the mosque’s courtyards to prevent the filming of students reciting the Holy Quran. The extremist minister in the Israeli occupation government, Itamar Ben Gvir, issued a decision to close the offices of the Jerusalem Fund and Endowment in Jerusalem for a period of 6 months. The occupation forces also raided the Ibn Hanbal Mosque during their raid on the village of Ras Atiya in Qalqilya. They confiscated the mosque’s loudspeaker, under the pretext of disturbing settlers.
In the cities and villages of the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, the number of Israeli raids reached 374, during which the occupation forces arrested 157 Palestinians, including seven children, and injured 10 other children. They raided the girls’ school in the Al-Ras area in the town of Beita in Nablus after removing its doors, and similarly raided the school in the village of Umm Salamuna in Bethlehem, where they lowered the Palestinian flag. They also prevented about 130 members of the teaching staff in the northern Jordan Valley, and around 150 members of the teaching staff in Jericho schools, from passing through the Hamra checkpoint in the governorate.
The Israeli occupation forces demolished 11 Palestinian homes in Al-Quds, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron. They raided, searched, and destroyed the contents of the UNRWA office in Jenin. They demolished a car wash in Hebron, as well as six barns and filled in a water well in Hebron. They forced Palestinian families to leave their homes in the Al-Ain refugee camp, and converted a residential building into a military barracks. They also issued new orders to displace Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp. They also arrested freed prisoners and journalists.
The OIC Observatory documented 13 settlement activities between April 29 and May 5, 2025. The occupation forces issued a plan allocating land in the Wadi al-Hamra site in the village of Husan for the purpose of building facilities in the Beitar Illit settlement, established on the lands occupied in 1967, and for establishing fuel stations. The occupation forces established a barbed wire fence approximately 2 km long separating the towns of Sinjil and Turmus Ayya from the Ramallah-Nablus road. Settlers placed cement blocks around some springs to prevent Palestinians from using them to irrigate crops in the Khirbet al-Deir area in Tubas.
Others paved a settlement road and carried out extensive excavation work on Palestinian land in the Wadi al-Asira area opposite the eastern side of Tel Ma’in, east of the town of Yatta, with the aim of expanding the Avigal settlement outpost plan. The occupation forces also paved a settlement road south of Bethlehem. Settlers began paving a dirt road in the town of Qusra in Nablus, while others erected a fence around an area of agricultural land east of the town of Yatta. They also set up a mobile room there and prevented the landowners from accessing it.
Settlers bulldozed an area of agricultural land to widen the roads of the “Bracha” settlement in the village of Iraq Burin in Nablus. Others erected new arbors near Palestinian homes in the al-Farisiya area of Tubas, and tents on top of Mount Gerizim and in the village of Duma in Nablus. They planted olive trees and raised Israeli flags in the al-Sir area. Settler attacks on Palestinian towns and villages reached 75 over a seven-day period. Settlers entered agricultural land and cut down, uprooted, and burned several olive trees in the plain of the village of Ramin in Tulkarm, the village of Duma in Nablus, and al-Rikiz in Hebron.
They also grazed their sheep on Palestinian agricultural lands in the Umm al-Quba area in Tubas, the village of al-Minya in Bethlehem, and the Masafer Yatta area in Hebron. They also destroyed solar cells for generating energy in the village of al-Nasariyya in Nablus and Khirbet al-Deir in Tubas. They tore up tents, damaged the tires of a water tanker, and stole 70 heads of cattle from the village of al-Nasariyya in Nablus. They seized a water pump in Khirbet al-Deir and a 4-kilometer water pipeline in the villages of al-Maleh and Khirbet Yarza in Tubas. They also stole a tractor in the village of Ramin in Tulkarm, and a coffee pot, and three cell phones in the village of Bziq in Tubas.
6 May 2025