The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians recorded 740 Palestinian martyrs between August 19 and 25, 2025, including 438 killed last week, 152 among them were waiting for aid.
Four bodies were recovered, 298 martyrs whose information was confirmed, and 2,043 wounded an official statement issued in Jeddah,Teusday has disclosed.
The Observatory also recorded 63,715 Palestinian deaths between October 7, 2023, and August 25, 2025, in addition to 166,963 wounded during the same period. For the first time, the United Nations declared a state of famine in Gaza City.
The joint declaration included the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Food Programme, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Meanwhile, the occupying forces began military operations to seize control of the city and destroy 450 homes in the Zeitoun neighborhood.
Continuing their targeting of food resources within the Gaza Strip, the occupying forces killed five farmers northwest of Khan Yunis, destroyed camps for displaced persons in Deir al-Balah after warning residents to evacuate, making 200 families homeless, and targeted a school in Al-Shatie refugee camp.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) stated that malnutrition cases among children have tripled in less than six months in the Gaza Strip, noting that one in three children suffers from malnutrition.
Separately, UNRWA confirmed that 360 international staff members were killed during the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces targeted journalists, doctors, civil defense workers, and civilians with a single shell as part of a full-fledged war crime when they deliberately bombed the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis.
The occupation forces killed six journalists, a doctor, and several civil defense personnel, in addition to residents of the Nasser Medical Complex and others, after launching two successive shells at the upper part of the hospital.
This brings the number of journalists killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, as of August 25, 2025, to 246. This comes amid a demand by 17 members of the US Senate for journalists to be allowed into the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a media blackout by the Israeli occupation since October 7, 2023.
In the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, the Observatory documented the 57th anniversary of Al-Aqsa Mosque’s arson, with the mosque subjected to 588 violations between October 7, 2023, and August 25, 2025.
Last week, occupation forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil, preventing worshippers from entering, and raided a mosque in Nablus.
The occupation forces are practicing a policy of individual exhaustion against Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds. They have arrested 170 Palestinians and raided West Bank cities and villages 292 times.
They have demolished residential facilities, two homes, a café, a wall, several commercial establishments, and five barns. They have also bulldozed parts of land in the village of Rujeib in Nablus, uprooted thousands of olive trees, and confiscated two vehicles in the village of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah.
They also damaged vehicles and confiscated a bulldozer during raids on the city of Al-Khalil and its villages. They have also issued orders to confiscate 20,312 dunams of land in the towns of Deir Ballut and Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit, in addition to $106,600 from Palestinians, a farming tractor in Tubas, and four vehicles and a motorcycle in Al-Quds.
The occupation forces also displaced 17 Palestinian families from their homes in the Al-Mashahid neighborhood in the village of Umm Tuba in Al-Quds after confiscating the land on which the homes were built for the benefit of the Jewish National Fund. Regarding settler attacks, West Bank villages were subjected to 64 attacks and 11 settlement activities.
Settlers grazed their livestock on lands in the villages of Aqraba and Urif in Nablus, the Sahl al-Rafid area in the town of al-Mughayyir, the village of Yabrud in Ramallah, the village of Farkha in Salfit, and the Masafer area in the town of Yatta in Al-Khalil.
They bulldozed agricultural land in the village of Turmus Ayya in Ramallah and the village of al-Rihiya in Hebron. They burned agricultural land in the Wadi Sa’ir area and a house in Halhul in Al-Khalil. They cut down tree branches in the town of Atara in Ramallah and stole agricultural equipment from there.
They also cut down tree branches in the villages of Rujeib in Nablus and Haris in Salfit. They also cut down trees and tree branches in the town of al-Shuyukh in Al-Khalil.
Settlers assaulted Palestinians and smashed windows of homes and cars in the villages of Susya in Al-Khalil, Qusra in Nablus, and Jalazone refugee camp in Ramallah.
They also stole 13 cows in the village of Einabus in Nablus, and seized agricultural equipment in the town of Kafr ad-Dik in Salfit. Regarding settlement activity, the occupation authorities approved a plan to build 3,401 settlement housing units and a new settlement comprising 342 housing units and public buildings.
They also carried out excavation and bulldozing operations in the village of al-Mughayyir over a three-day period to pave a settlement road. Settlers bulldozed land in the village of Beit Dajan in Nablus to expand a settlement outpost. Others carried out excavation and bulldozing operations, and erected and furnished three tents in a new settlement outpost in the Huwara area in the Masafer Yatta town.
Settlers paved two settlement roads on lands in the village of Umm Safa and the town of Deir Dibwan in Ramallah, and a road between the “Havat Ma’on” settlement outpost and the Al-Hamra area in the Masafer Yatta town. Settlers erected dozens of mobile homes south of the town of Bani Na’im in Al-Khalil, with the aim of establishing three settlement outposts.
They also erected a large menorah in the area, and placed mobile homes on top of a mountain in the village of Rujeib in Nablus. The number of Israeli crimes over the past week reached 3,611 crimes in various Palestinian areas.
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