OIC Media Observatory Report:

Dangerous Escalation in the Blessed Al Aqsa

Dangerous Escalation in the Blessed Al Aqsa

The number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation forces in seven days was 306 martyrs, including 296 martyrs in the Gaza Strip and 10 martyrs in the West Bank, while the number of martyrs since October 7, 2023, reached 41,081 martyrs. 

As documented by the OIC Media Observatory for Israel's crimes against the  Palestinians for the period between 20 and 26 August 2024, the number of wounded in Gaza and the West Bank reached 922, while the number of detainees in the West Bank and Al-Quds was about 129.
On the other hand, 60 media and human rights organizations, including Reporters Without Borders, urged the European Union to suspend the cooperation agreement with Israel and impose sanctions on it, due to its continuous killing of journalists in the Gaza Strip.

 The Blessed Aqsa Mosque was subjected to almost daily incursions at a time when Israel announced its intention to make these incursions systematic. The official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation revealed that the Israeli government will finance the incursions of Jewish settlers to Al-Aqsa with 545,000 US dollars, amid continued condemnation of the statement of the extremist Israeli minister, Ben Gvir, to build a Jewish synagogue in the courtyards of the Mosque.

In the West Bank and Al-Quds, the Israeli occupation forces demolished 10 houses in Wadi al-Jawz, the town of Anata in Al-Quds, Bethlehem, Tulkarm camp, the village of Khirbeta al-Misbah in Ramallah, and in Nablus, in addition to settlers burning a house in the Beirin area of Al-Khaleel.
 
Furthermore, the occupation forces demolished infrastructure and streets in Tubas, Tulkarm camp, and Balata camp in Nablus. It also demolished a sports club, a car repair shop, and a shop in the Wadi al-Jawz neighborhood of Al-Quds, a supermarket in Tulkarem camp, and a shopping center in Balata camp in Nablus, as well as a number of barns and barracks in Ramallah. 

The occupation forces also confiscated two bulldozers in Al-Khaleel and Jenin and a cement mixer and a car in Jenin,  and bombed another in Tulkarm. The settlers also seized a bulldozer in Beit Dajan in Nablus and an agricultural tractor in the town of Yatta in Al-Khaleel. Moreover, settlers burned and bulldozed agricultural land in the villages of Salfit, Bethlehem, and Al-Khaleel. They attacked Palestinian vehicles and smashed their glass in the Old City in Al-Khaleel, the town of Beit Kahel, the village of Susiya near the city itself, and the village of Rujayb in Nablus. They also stole the water of the village of Auja in Areeha by diverting the village's spring, while settlers raided Palestinian villages over the past week 39 times. 

Six settlement activities were carried out in the West Bank as settlers placed a fence around a piece of land in Wadi al-Maleh in the northern Jordan Valley with the intention of seizing it. The occupation forces bulldozed agricultural land near an outpost north of the village of Deir Istiya. Settlers set up settlement tents in the village of Miniyah in Bethlehem in an attempt to seize Palestinian lands, and others tried to build an outpost in Beit Furik in Nablus, in addition to settlers near Jabal Guntal in Areeha setting up tents in an attempt to build an outpost as well. Furthermore, the occupation forces bulldozed land with the aim of building and expanding a settlement dirt road in the region.

Finally, 1936 crimes and violations were committed by the occupation forces and settlers over the mentioned period. 

27 August 2024

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