The government media office in Gaza said on Saturday that the Israeli army had stolen money and gold jewelry from the Strip, valued at about $25 million, since last October 7.

The office stated, that it monitored “dozens of testimonies given by residents of the Gaza Strip, about the theft of money, gold, and jewelry estimated at 90 million shekels, more than 24 million and 500 thousand dollars, by the Israeli occupation army and soldiers, 92 days ago.”

The statement explained, "The thefts occurred in more than one way. The first was at checkpoints, such as Salah al-Din Street, where they stole bags from the displaced people who had fled from the north of the Gaza Valley towards the south, which contained their valuable possessions such as money, gold, and jewelry."

As for the second method, according to the government office, it was “robbing homes whose residents were asked to leave, where they took souvenir photos and video clips of this crime, which some of them posted on their accounts on social networking sites, as happened in the town of Beit Lahia (north of the Gaza Strip).”

The government office indicated that a number of Hebrew newspapers documented this crime, with Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper describing it as “the systematic theft of Gazans’ money.”

As of 15:50 (UTG), the Israeli authorities had not issued a comment on the statement of the government media office in Gaza.

On December 30, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said that the Israeli army was unleashing its soldiers in Gaza to carry out “immoral practices” against Palestinian civilians during raids on their homes, including stealing and looting property.

In a report, the Observatory documented a series of cases revealing the involvement of Israeli soldiers in systematic thefts of Palestinian funds and belongings, including gold, sums of money, mobile phones and laptops, estimating the total of the stolen items at tens of millions of dollars.