The OIC Observatory warns: Gaza Enters the Most Critical Humanitarian Phase Since October 7 – OIC Weekly Report (Non-UN Document)

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25 June 2024

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Israel Seeks to Make the Murdering Part of a Harsher Collective Punishment of Gazans

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s media observatory for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians warned that the Gaza Strip has already entered, since mid-June 2024, a very critical stage that is considered the worst compared to previous months. The OIC Observatory relied on 3 main elements, the first of which is the continued aggression of the Israeli forces against the Gaza Strip through complete control over it and targeting all its areas, and the refusal to stop military operations there, while the second element represents the destruction of approximately 70% of Gaza’s urban infrastructure, especially water networks. , sanitation, and roads, as well as the destruction of most of the health sector, making most areas of Gaza unviable. The entry of limited quantities of humanitarian aid, fuel, and water is the third element that prevents the sector from recovering, even if in a limited way, and multiplies its humanitarian crises and increases their devastating effects more than ever before.

Also, it became clear from the daily statistics of the numbers of murdered and wounded and the targeting areas that Israel seeks to turn this hell into a daily reality in the Gaza Strip that does not foretell an imminent end to it, and that direct murdering constitutes part of a harsher collective punishment.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that 67% of the water and sanitation facilities and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip were destroyed after about 9 months of continuous war, which led to the spread of infectious diseases, especially with the high temperatures in the summer and the pollution of drinking water. The Khan Yunis municipality also confirmed that 170-200 kilometers of water networks have already been destroyed.

The problem of drinking water in Gaza coincides with the starvation of its population by preventing the entry of goods and humanitarian aid, while Palestinians warned that 3,500 children were at risk of starvation, in light of the lack of regular vaccinations and medicines, along with the statement of “Save the Children”, which confirmed the loss of 21,000 children because of Israeli military operations.

The OIC Media Observatory monitored for the period between June 18 and 24, 2024, the murdering of (265) Palestinians and the injury of (680) others. While the number of people murdered from October 7, 2023 to June 23, 2024 reached (38,151) murdered, and (91,232) Palestinians were injured.

In the West Bank, five Palestinians were murdered by Israeli forces which also arrested (212) Palestinians, while the number of attacks by Israeli settlers on cities, towns and villages in the West Bank reached (33), including raids on two mosques in Jericho and Hebron, in addition to raids on the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied AL-Quds.

The settlers carried out settlement activities in repeated attempts to establish settlement outposts in Hebron and Nablus, in addition to grazing their sheep on Palestinian agricultural lands, burning other lands, and attacking agricultural greenhouses in Nablus, Salfit, Tulkarm, and Hebron, and stealing sheep from Palestinian barns, in addition to trying to obstruct aid convoys coming from Jordan to Gaza Strip. While the total Israeli crimes against Palestinians during the aforementioned period reached (1,576) crimes and violations of various categories.