Settlers Attack Olive Harvesters, Steal Fruit Near Ramallah and Nablus

Palestinian sources reported on Monday that settlers escalated attacks against Palestinian farmers and the olive harvest season in several villages and towns in the Ramallah and Nablus governorates. The settlers reportedly stole olive fruits, assaulted harvesters and trees, and prevented farmers from continuing their work, in coordinated assaults targeting citizens' land and livelihoods.

In the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, settlers allegedly stole olive fruits from private land, simultaneously damaging trees by beating and vandalizing them. Similar incidents were reported in the town of Al-Mazra'a al-Gharbiya, northwest of Ramallah, where settlers, reportedly under the protection of the Israeli army, stole olives and damaged trees. In the village of 'Abwein, also northwest of Ramallah, settlers are said to have stolen olives and destroyed trees. In the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah, settler gangs reportedly attacked olive pickers, with residents stating these groups had been stealing olives in the area for days.

Settler militias are also accused of continuing to steal the olive harvest in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, as part of a systematic policy to seize land and crops. Earlier on Monday, settlers reportedly attacked olive harvesters in the Bab al-Jami area, west of the town of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, preventing them from working and seizing a tractor belonging to a farmer from the nearby town of Bazzariya.

In the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, settlers allegedly stole olive fruits and damaged dozens of trees.