By SCM Staff Writer I Saturday, October 01, 2025
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has released a stark report alleging a severe escalation of violence and destruction in the Gaza Strip last week, claiming Israeli occupation forces killed more than 700 Palestinians and injured nearly 1,600 others in a seven-day period.
According to the OIC’s Observatory of Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians, between September 23 and 29, 2025, a total of 716 Palestinians were killed and 1,593 injured in what it described as a continuation of an “ongoing genocidal war that began on October 7, 2023.” The report places the total number of Palestinians killed since the start of the aggression at 67,102, with more than 177,474 wounded.
The OIC statement claims the violence was marked by “violent shelling and deliberate destruction of residential towers and buildings,” leading to an “unprecedented rise” in casualties.
The report highlighted the bombing of the “Mecca” residential tower in Gaza City’s southern Al-Rimal neighborhood, which housed hundreds of displaced families, citing it as an example of attacks on inhabited homes and civilian gatherings, including those awaiting humanitarian aid.
“Tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped in their homes, unable to flee due to the intense, indiscriminate shelling targeting densely populated residential neighborhoods,” the OIC report stated, noting that forces have been blowing up dozens of residential towers and hundreds of residential buildings across Gaza City, a policy it says is aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinians.
The health sector, according to the OIC, remains on the brink of total collapse. The report says that Israeli forces continued to target the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, obstructing the movement of ambulances and the wounded in an effort to encircle the area.
The bombardment of the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, was also intensified, resulting in “massacres of civilians, including women and children.”
The OIC’s media observatory recorded dozens of deaths and injuries among aid seekers due to gunfire while queuing. The World Health Organization, cited in the report, stated that four hospitals in northern Gaza have closed since the beginning of September due due to shelling and evacuation orders, leaving hundreds of health facilities out of service.
It also noted that over 15,000 wounded people require urgent medical evacuation.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed in the OIC report that the rate of airstrikes had increased to an average of one every eight or nine minutes.
The report also detailed a serious escalation in the occupied West Bank and East Al-Quds during the same period, citing attacks by Israeli forces and settlers that resulted in numerous injuries, including from shooting and deliberate vehicle-ramming incidents.
Settler groups reportedly stormed the town of Silwan and uprooted olive trees, while a new settlement outpost was allegedly established on lands in the town of Deir Istiya.
The OIC report claims that the approval of the settlement plan known as E1 threatens the forced displacement of approximately 450 Palestinian Bedouins in Jabal al-Baba, warning that the West Bank is experiencing its worst forced displacement crisis since 1967.
Separately, the OIC report included a claim that the president of Microsoft revealed the Israeli army used the company’s services to store civilian phone call data obtained through surveillance of Palestinians.
The report states the company informed the Israeli Ministry of Defense to suspend some of the services exploited for these purposes.
Amid the conflict, a humanitarian mission known as the “Global Sumud (Steadfastness) Flotilla” continued its journey toward the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the blockade, despite reported attacks.
The OIC claims the flotilla, carrying over 50 boats and 500 activists, was subjected to drone attacks believed to have been carried out by Israel, causing explosions and a communications blackout.
Italy and Spain were reported to have dispatched naval vessels to escort the flotilla and secure its arrival following the alleged attacks.
