Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Collective Voice of The Muslim World
Date: 27/02/2024
The city of Deir al-Balah was subjected to violent Israeli bombing during the past few days, which claimed the lives of many Palestinians, most of whom were displaced people who fled the bombing of the areas in the northern Gaza Strip, while the Israeli starvation policy against the people of the Gaza Strip reached its peak recently, especially in the areas of the northern and central Gaza Strip.
According to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Observatory for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians for the period between February 20-26, 2024, the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip reached about (690) in (64) massacres, while the number of those killed in the West Bank in the same period reached about (8) martyrs. The number of people injured by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank reached about (1,057).
On the other hand, the number of Palestinian martyrs from October 07, 2023, until February 25, 2024, reached about (29,700). The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated in a report, a copy of which was obtained by the OIC’s observatory, that 70% of the martyrs during that period were women and children, with a total of (7,950) women, while the number of children who died in the bombing reached (12,500). During the same period, about (69,800) people were injured because of air, artillery, and naval bombardment and shooting operations in populated civilian areas.
The areas of the Gaza Strip are suffering under the weight of death and starvation due to the prevention of the entry of aid convoys by the occupation forces and the scarcity of goods in various cities there. In addition to the suffering of the people of the Gaza Strip from killing, malnutrition that almost reaches the point of famine, and disease, the displaced people are crowded together in the city of Rafah - south of the Gaza Strip. They fear an imminent Israeli military invasion amid international warnings that this may lead to dozens of massacres against Palestinian civilians, most of whom are sleeping on the ground without shelter or food.
On the other hand, during the period February 20-26, the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque witnessed almost daily raids by Jewish extremists under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, which last Friday tightened restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the mosque from cities and villages in the West Bank.
In the West Bank as well, the number of attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian villages and towns during the same period reached its peak in weeks, with (40) attacks amid the continuation of settlement activities, especially in Bethlehem, the demolition of three homes in both Al-Quds, Bethlehem, and Jenin, bulldozing agricultural lands, cutting 40 trees in Salfit, and demolishing property and infrastructure.
