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SvennoJ on 25 October 2025
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Hamas slams Israeli settler attacks as ‘organised terrorist policy’

Senior Hamas official Abdul Rahman Shadid has criticised “the continued and escalating brutal attacks” carried out by settlers in the occupied West Bank as they target Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season.

He called these attacks “an organised terrorist policy” that targets land, people and all aspects of Palestinian life in the West Bank. Shadid stressed that the assaults are “an attempt to expand the settlements, terrorise residents and force them to abandon their lands”.

Settler attacks on farmers have increased in recent days in attempts to keep them away from olive trees during the harvest season.


Israeli forces, settler assault Palestinian farmer harvesting olives

Three Israeli soldiers and a settler have attacked Ahmad Shakarna, a 65-year-old Palestinian who was harvesting olives with his family in the village of Nahalin near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

Translation: A settler and three soldiers beat and attack Ahmad Shakarna, 65, while he is harvesting olives with his family in the village of Nahalin near Bethlehem.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli settlers stormed Kafr Malek, located northeast of Ramallah, and assaulted Palestinian farmers trying to harvest their own olive trees.

In the Baqa’a area, at the entrance to the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, Israeli forces prevented Palestinian farmers from reaching their lands, firing sound bombs and tear gas at them.


‘Emboldened’ by right-wing government, Israeli settlers step up West Bank attacks

Settler violence across the occupied West Bank has significantly increased since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.

This year is the highest on record for these types of attacks against Palestinians who are rendered defenceless in the face of multiple threats – whether it’s settler violence or Israeli military raids, and oftentimes it’s both of these two things together.

Israeli settlers are attacking the Palestinians under the protection of Israeli forces.

But in the last couple of weeks, in particular, in the olive harvest season, we have seen a lot of incidents of pretty severe violence by the settlers who are emboldened by a right-wing government in Israel.

Several Palestinians have been injured – and it’s not just attacks on the people themselves.

It’s attacks on the land, on olive trees, attacks on infrastructure they use every single day, and Palestinians say this is just another reality of living life under Israeli occupation, with no one to help them or protect them.


Israeli forces storm Jenin, surround home

Israeli forces have surrounded a house in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. According to Wafa news agency, citing local sources, soldiers stormed Jenin and took up positions in al-Marah neighbourhood.

In the Old City, soldiers surrounded a house, opening fire on surveillance cameras surrounding the building. Large infantry forces were also deployed throughout the city.