The OIC Media Observatory recorded 67 settler attacks between August 12 and 18, 2025. Settlers grazed their livestock several times on agricultural land in the village of Bardala in Tubas, the al-Auja Shalal complex in Jericho, the Masafer area of Yatta in Hebron, the village of Shufa in Tulkarm, and the Khirbet Umm al-Battam area in Bethlehem. They set fire to agricultural land in the town of Surif in Hebron, the villages of Duma and Osarin in Nablus, the town of Hizma in Jerusalem, and the Marj Sa’i plain in Ramallah. They also bulldozed land in the plain of Turmus Ayya in Ramallah and the village of Duma in Nablus. Settlers cut tree branches in the village of Deir Sharaf in Nablus, damaged the agricultural irrigation network, uprooted trees in Wadi Sa’ir, destroyed crops in the village of Halhul in Hebron, cut down and uprooted several trees in lands near the settlement of “Efrat” and the area of Khirbet Umm al-Batem in Bethlehem, in the Marj plain area and the village of Kafr Malik in Ramallah, and the village of Duma in Nablus. They also damaged water tanks there, bringing the total number of attacks on agricultural lands within a week to 27.
Meanwhile, settlers attacked vegetable vendors and vandalized their goods in the northern Jordan Valley. Settlers emptied water from water tanks and cut water pipes leading to residents’ tents in the Nab’ Ghazal Spring area in Tubas. They burned four cars and a house in the town of Atara, and burned several cars and mobile homes in the Marj Sa’a plain area. They stole building materials north of the town of Halhul, as well as two electrical transformers in the village of Kafr Malik. Settlers forcibly displaced a Palestinian family from the Arab al-Malihat community in Jericho.
In this context, the number of settlement activities in seven days reached 8, represented by the occupation authorities issuing tenders to build more than 4,000 settlement units, including tenders to expand the “Ma’ale Adumim” settlement built on lands in Al-Quds Governorate, and other tenders to expand the “Ariel” settlement in the Salfit Governorate. The occupation forces placed mobile homes in an archaeological area near the village of Susya, while settlers paved a settlement road in the town of Tekoa in Bethlehem, and a road on lands in the village of Deir Razih.
Other settlers set up mobile homes near the village of Deir Razeh in Hebron and the village of Shufa in Tulkarm. Others raised the occupation flag on land near the town of Aqraba in Nablus with the aim of seizing it. They also seized control of a water well in the Masafer area of the town of Yatta in Hebron.
Israeli occupation forces raided cities, towns, and villages in the West Bank 373 times, arresting 144 Palestinians, including 3 children. Settlers assaulted two children, one of them five years old, in Nablus and Hebron. Israeli occupation forces demolished 3 homes, a hut and its surrounding wall, a poultry farm in Al-Quds, and a building materials store in Ramallah. They also bulldozed land planted with olive trees in the village of Haris in Salfit. They confiscated a bulldozer, two trucks, and two cars in Jenin. Settlers seized a car in Bethlehem and destroyed several other cars in different areas of the West Bank, where two Palestinians were killed.
The number of Israeli crimes during the period from August 12 to 18, 2025, amounted to 4,008 crimes, varying in all Palestinian areas, with the most prominent crimes occurring in the Gaza Strip, where the OIC Media Observatory recorded the martyrdom of 544 Palestinians by the fire of the occupation forces, and the recovery of the bodies of 34 Palestinians from under the rubble, bringing the total number of martyrs recorded during the past week to 580 martyrs, and the total number of Palestinians killed since October 7, 2023, until August 17, 2025, to 62,975, and the wounded to 164,920.
In a related development, Doctors Without Borders said the number of wounded in the Gaza Strip is tripling daily, while the OIC’s Media Observatory noted that the growing number of wounded has exceeded 300 daily. As of this writing, 263 people have died of starvation in Gaza, including 112 children.
On the humanitarian front, the United Nations confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces carried out 11 attacks targeting aid guards in the Gaza Strip over the past two weeks, killing a fisherman and wounding another on the coast of Gaza City, while killing aid-seekers on a daily basis. This practice prevents the entry of aid, hinders Palestinians in Gaza from finding food alternatives, and prevents them from accessing available aid. These violations confirm that the occupation forces are committing a full-fledged war crime.
The occupation forces have also disappeared nearly 3,000 health workers in the Gaza Strip, killing 1,590 and arresting 1,360 others, in addition to destroying the health sector’s infrastructure and continuously preventing the entry of medicines and fuel.
August 19, 2025