OIC Media Observatory Reports Escalating Israeli Crimes in Gaza

Riyadh: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded the deaths of 460 murdered Palestinians and 1939 injured in a single week between June 3 and 9, 2025. The total number of Palestinians murdered by Israel from October 7, 2023, until June 9, 2025, reached 56,260, and 134,586 were injured. Many of the murdered Palestinians fell while searching for aid. Palestinian sources reported that the number of people searching for food whilst murdered reached more than 111. A total of 583 Palestinians were injured, and nine are missing, in addition to the casualties and missing persons as a result of the bombing of aid centers. The remaining were murdered by the Israeli occupation forces’ fire that targeted various areas of Gaza, including displaced persons’ tents and civilian homes.

According to Saudi Press Agency, three paramedics and a journalist were murdered in an Israeli airstrike while recovering the bodies of Palestinians murdered following an airstrike in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. Israeli forces also bombed the Baptist Hospital, murdering four journalists. These latest attacks bring the total number of journalists murdered in the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip to 228. The OIC Media Observatory noted that the occupation forces had adopted a policy of increasing pressure on the health sector by doubling the number of injured, which has now exceeded the capacity of hospitals operating in the Gaza Strip to provide treatment, given the Israeli restrictions and lack of the equipment and resources necessary for their continued operation. This report comes as the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor confirmed that the occupation forces are deliberately bombing hospitals in Gaza based on the same pretexts and lies.

Israeli occupation forces blew up homes in the Qarara area of Khan Yunis and the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as part of its policy of displacing Palestinians, alongside Israeli admissions that the occupation government is arming Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip. Al-Aqsa Mosque has been subjected to near-daily raids from extremist settlers. The number of raids by the occupation forces on cities and towns in the West Bank reached 302, during which they arrested 166 Palestinians. They also murdered a child in Ramallah and injured two others in Nablus.

The occupation forces demolished four homes in Al-Quds within one week, bulldozed agricultural lands in the village of Deir Jarir, Ramallah, confiscated two agricultural tractors in the town of Beit Ummar, Hebron, three cars in the town of Tuqu’, Bethlehem, and the town of Hizma, Al-Quds, and a motorcycle in the town of Sinjil, Ramallah. Israeli crimes totaled 3,172 during the period monitored by the OIC Media Observatory. Settler crimes included 55 attacks on various villages, towns, and cities in the West Bank. During these raids, settlers attacked the outskirts of the town of Deir Dibwan in Ramallah, where they burned three homes, a farm, cars, and horse and sheep pens.

In terms of settlement activities, settlers established a settlement outpost on the ruins of the homes of a Palestinian family that had been displaced previously in the town of Taybeh in Ramallah. Others erected two tents near Palestinian homes in the village of Susya in Hebron and opposite Palestinian homes in the village of Burin. They also erected a tent on the summit of Mount Ebal, located north of Nablus, in addition to setting up a tent on Palestinian land east of the town of Yatta in Hebron and a pergola in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan in Salfit. Moreover, settlers paved a settlement road from the village of Farkha’s lands and brought water to the settlement outpost located there. Others paved a road west of the town of Deir Ballut in Salfit. The occupation forces also ordered the confiscation of 36,055 dunams of land from the villages of Shibtin, Deir Ammar, and Deir Qadis in Ramallah, as well as 12,221 dunams of land from the villages of Deir Ghassaneh and Al-Lubban Al-Gharbi in Ramallah.