OIC Media Observatory: Fourth Wave of Winter Rains Hits Gaza

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Gaza: OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded 32 Palestinians murdered between January 6 and 12, 2026. The OIC Media Observatory documented the killing of 21 Palestinians, the recovery of 9 bodies, and the killing of a prisoner in Israeli custody. Additionally, 47 Palestinians were injured in the Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, the OIC Observatory recorded the killing of one Palestinian and the injury of 23 others.

According to Saudi Press Agency, Israeli occupation forces raided cities and villages in the West Bank 293 times in seven days, arresting 160 Palestinians, including 13 children, and injuring another. They also arrested five fishermen off the coast of Gaza City.

Israeli forces continued violating the ceasefire, shelling multiple areas across the Gaza Strip. Satellite images show that Israeli forces have destroyed more than 2,500 homes since the ceasefire agreement was signed. The United Nations confirmed that more than one million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are in need of shelter as winter rains intensify.

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that 18,000 patients in Gaza require medical evacuation. International organizations, including UNRWA and the German Red Cross, have urged the lifting of restrictions on aid deliveries amid a critical shortage of food and medicine.

In the West Bank, the occupation forces demolished four homes, an iron factory, a farm, and several livestock pens. They confiscated a truck, a bulldozer, an excavator, and a vehicle. They also occupied two houses in Nablus, converting them into military outposts, and bulldozed agricultural land in several locations across the West Bank.

The number of settlement activities reached ten, during which the occupation forces issued an order to confiscate 694 dunams of land belonging to the towns of Kafr Thulth in Qalqilya, Deir Istiya, and Bidya in Salfit, in addition to confiscating 140 dunams of land belonging to the village of Fandaqumiya, for the benefit of settlement projects. They also confiscated an area of 46,973 dunams of land belonging to the town of Silat ad-Dhahr, the village of Fandaqumiya, and the village of Burqa, to build a road connecting the ruins of the settlements of 'Homesh' and 'Sanur.' In addition, the Israeli occupation issued a tender for the construction of 3,401 settlement units east of Jerusalem. The 'Ateret Cohanim' settlement association also seized a building consisting of two apartments in the Batn al-Hawa area of the Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem. Settlers paved a road leading to an outpost near the town of Atara, placed mobile homes on land between the villages of Fandaqumiya and Burqa, erected a tent on land i n the village of Mikhmas, and bulldozed land southeast of the town of Al-Dhahiriya with the aim of paving a settlement road. Thus, the number of Israeli crimes during the period between January 6 and 12, 2026, reached 873 crimes in various Palestinian areas.

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