Settler Violence Surges in West Bank and Jerusalem, Targeting Olive Pickers
Translated & summarized from Arab48 by baba
Settlers intensified attacks across the West Bank and Jerusalem on Sunday, targeting Palestinian vehicles, farmers, and olive harvesters. The violence included stone-throwing, property destruction, land leveling, and the establishment of new settlements. Israeli forces were involved in some incidents, including protecting settlers and arresting a Palestinian. The surge in attacks coincides with the olive harvest season.
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- Settlers escalated attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank and Jerusalem on Sunday.
- Attacks targeted vehicles, farmers, and olive pickers, with incidents reported near Ramallah and Nablus.
- Inciting graffiti was found in Beit Hanina, and settlers attacked olive pickers in Beit Iksa, Jerusalem.
- Farmers were injured in Hebron, and settlers stole livestock and began establishing new outposts.
- Israeli forces resumed land leveling in Al-Mughayyir and confiscated an olive harvest.
- The violence coincides with the ongoing olive harvest season and increased Israeli military raids.
Settlers escalated attacks against Palestinians and their property across the West Bank and Jerusalem on Sunday, targeting vehicles, farmers, and olive harvesters. The assaults coincided with the seizure and leveling of agricultural lands, the establishment of new settlement outposts, and the theft of livestock and possessions, particularly as the olive harvest season continues.
In the Ramallah area, settlers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles near the Ain Ayub roundabout west of the city, destroying one car in Sinjil. They also raided agricultural lands in the Al-Rifid plain northeast of Al-Mughayyir village and west of Kafr Malik village. Near Nablus, settlers attacked vehicles with stones near the Qusra roundabout and Za'tara checkpoint, shattering the windows of four cars near the entrance to Aqrabah town. These incidents follow Saturday attacks where a Palestinian was injured in Kafr Malik and olive pickers were targeted in Lubban al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus.
In Jerusalem, settlers scrawled inciting graffiti calling for the killing of Palestinians on the walls of homes in Beit Hanina. Settlers also attacked olive pickers in Beit Iksa village, northwest of Jerusalem, under the protection of Israeli forces who fired live ammunition and tear gas at residents and arrested Mohammed Seder after assaulting him.
In the Hebron governorate, several farmers sustained injuries from armed settlers in Khirbet Soba. Israeli forces prevented an ambulance from reaching the injured. Settlers also began establishing two new outposts on private land in Yatta and stole 12 sheep in Masafer Yatta.
Israeli forces resumed land leveling east of Al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, on Sunday. Witnesses reported that bulldozers were used to level Palestinian lands in the Al-Rifid area. In Wadi Amar, south of the village, Israeli forces forced olive harvesters off their land and confiscated their crop. Settlers also stole a room belonging to a Palestinian in the Al-Khalayel road area, south of Al-Mughayyir.
The intensified settler violence occurs amidst the ongoing olive harvest and frequent Israeli military raids on Palestinian villages and towns.
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