(753) Since the Beginning of the Current Year
“Union for Justice”: The Occupation Killed (134) Palestinians Last Month, the Majority of Them from the Gaza Strip
1/7/2026 – Union for Justice Foundation
The Union for Justice Foundation said that Israeli occupation forces killed (134) Palestinians during last June, (124) in the Gaza Strip, (7) in the West Bank, and (3) from the territories occupied in 1948, among them (20 children) and (20 women).
The Foundation explained in its report that the number of martyrs since the beginning of the current year has reached (753) martyrs, noting that (128) citizens were martyred in January, (106) in February, (105) in March, (137) in April, and (143) in May.
The Union for Justice noted that these figures do not include the bodies that are recovered from beneath the rubble months after their martyrdom, nor do they include other martyrs killed by Israeli forces in the areas they control and by their affiliated collaborator militias, which constitute approximately 70% of the Gaza Strip’s area and are difficult for Palestinian medical crews to access.
It added: “The occupying state continues to violate the ceasefire that was reached on 11 October of last year under international sponsorship through the continuous bombardment of the Gaza Strip by warplanes, drones, tank artillery, and sniper fire. Since that date, the number of martyrs has reached 1,053, while the number of injured has exceeded 3,406, whereas 786 bodies have been recovered from beneath the rubble.”
Meanwhile, the number of Palestinian martyrs from 7 October 2023 until the end of last June reached (73,066) martyrs and more than (173,514) wounded, while hundreds of bodies still remain beneath the rubble and destroyed buildings.
An Undeclared Return to War
The Union for Justice Foundation believes that the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the destruction of residential buildings returned noticeably during the past month, coinciding with the announcement by the Prime Minister of the occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, of expanding the area controlled by the army to 70% of the Gaza Strip’s area and the possibility of the return of settlement activity to areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
During the past month, the Israeli army also carried out several assassination operations against activists whom the occupation accuses of being involved in resisting the occupation and participating in the events of 7 October. During these operations, dozens of civilians, including children and women, were killed while they were in displacement tents and residential apartments.
The Foundation stressed that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has not actually ended and that the occupying state has rearranged the war in a lower-profile but more violent form, more compatible with the American ceiling and more capable of controlling the ground without a broad military-political declaration.
Targeting the Police in Gaza
During last June, the occupation continued its bombardment and assassination operations against members of the Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip. The Union for Justice documented several incidents targeting police vehicles and their locations, resulting in the martyrdom of a number of police officers.
The Foundation confirms that the occupation’s targeting of Palestinian police officers, while protecting collaborator gangs and providing them with air cover, comes as part of efforts to undermine stability in the Gaza Strip, spread chaos and lawlessness, and attempt to expand the areas in which collaborators are present.
Martyrs of the West Bank
In the West Bank, according to the monitoring of the Union for Justice, Israeli forces killed (7) citizens last month: (3) from Hebron Governorate, (2) from Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, (1) from Jenin, and (1) from Salfit. In addition, (3) citizens from the territories occupied in 1948 were martyred.
The Foundation explained: “On the fourth of last month, occupation soldiers killed the child Haitham Ezzedine Omar Hamideh (18 years old) from the village of Beitin, northeast of Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate. On the twenty-ninth of the same month, the child Amir Ahmad Jawad Jaber (15 years old) was martyred by occupation soldiers’ gunfire in the city of Al-Bireh.”
It added: “On the twenty-second of the same month, Reda Sami Hassan Awad (15 years old) and Issa Arafat Ismail Awad (19 years old) were martyred after occupation soldiers opened fire on them near the settlement of ‘Karmei Tzur’. Both were from the town of Beit Ummar in the Hebron district.”
It continued: “On the fifth of last month, occupation soldiers opened machine-gun fire at a civilian vehicle travelling in the Tel Rumeida area south of Hebron, resulting in the martyrdom of the infant Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, aged 7 months, and the injury of his father.”
On 24 June, an Israeli undercover force assassinated Mohammad Nazem Ezzat Zayed (29 years old) after besieging a house in the town of Al-Yamoun in the Jenin district. The force also arrested his brother, who was accompanying and caring for him as he suffers from cancer.
A day later, the Israeli army stormed the town of Sarta in the Salfit district and executed Mustafa Taha Mustafa Al-Khatib (32 years old) inside his home and among his family, despite the fact that he posed no threat to occupation soldiers and was not wanted by Israeli authorities (according to Israeli allegations).
Martyrs from the Occupied Interior
During last June, 3 citizens from the territories occupied in 1948 were martyred, including two prisoners who were held in occupation prisons on security-related charges. They are: Omar Yassin (21 years old) from the town of Taybeh, who was martyred after carrying out a shooting operation in the settlement of “Kokhav Ya’ir”; Imad Rajeh Sarhan (47 years old) from the city of Haifa, who was martyred in “Gilboa” Prison after suffering a heart attack; and Saber Al-Amaytal (21 years old) from the Negev, who was martyred inside a cell in “Shikma” Prison belonging to the Israeli “Shin Bet” security service.
The Union for Justice Foundation confirms that the Israeli occupation authorities practice and employ killing and genocide in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in service of political objectives aimed at disrupting the demographic balance in historic Palestine and pushing Palestinians to think about emigration under the weight of the continued killing machine.
The Union for Justice believes that the occupying state’s continued adoption of this bloody policy would not have been possible without American and Western support, Arab and Islamic silence, and the absence of international accountability mechanisms for Israel’s continued violations of human rights conventions.
The Foundation warns of an escalation in the killing of Palestinians in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the coming period as the date of the Israeli Knesset elections approaches, where Palestinian blood becomes part of the propaganda of extremist Zionist parties.
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