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Israeli settlers attack more Palestinian olive farmers, spoil harvest
We are getting reports of more attacks on Palestinian olive farmers in the occupied West Bank during the short harvest season.
One attack, perpetrated by Israeli settlers, took place in the town of Sinjil, near Ramallah, according to the Wafa news agency. The armed settlers assaulted a family as they picked olives and forced them off their land, before stealing some of their farm equipment, according to local sources.
A second attack took place near the village of Huwara, south of Nablus, as a gang of Israeli settlers assaulted farmers and dumped olives they picked onto the ground.
Attacks on Palestinian olive farmers have escalated this year, with more than 120 incidents of violence since early October, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Palestine.
October most violent month for settler attacks in West Bank: UNWRA
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has condemned a surge in Israeli settler violence against Palestinian olive harvesters.
“October 2025 is on track to be the most violent month since UNRWA began tracking settler violence in 2013,” the agency stated.
UNWRA’s director for the occupied West Bank, Roland Friedrich, said attacks on olive farmers “threaten the very way of life for many Palestinians” as it is the primary livelihood for many.
Year of settler violence has changed landscape of occupied West Bank
Having been absent for a year, I almost didn’t recognise the road from Jericho to Ramallah. Entire communities in the Jordan Valley, Bedouin communities, have disappeared. All I saw was what remained of their homes and barns. They were torn down and burned by Israeli settlers.
I did see several young Israeli settlers, armed, taking over the land, putting up fences to mark their new claimed territory, setting up an outpost with an Israeli flag. When I tried to pull out my phone and take pictures or capture this on video, the driver I was with asked me not to do that because he didn’t want to be marked by the Israeli settlers, who roam the area freely and who can call the Israeli army. He lives in the Jordan Valley, and he feared retribution.
So really, it’s quite remarkable in the span of 12 months how much has changed and the freedom with which Israeli settlers roam.
While Netanyahu now has to play nice with Trump and adhere to the ceasefire, as far as Israel is concerned, in the occupied West Bank, the agenda of this government is of taking over land, of allowing settlers to not only take up more arms, but to use them quite freely and to assist them by deploying the Israeli army.
Israeli settlers and security forces attack Palestinians across the occupied West Bank
Over the past few hours, we have received reports of attacks by Israeli settlers and the Israeli military on Palestinians across the occupied West Bank.
- Three women were injured after being assaulted by settlers in the town of Tal, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent reports.
- Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent said settlers also attacked Palestinians and foreign activists in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
- Al Jazeera Arabic reports that settlers set fire to a vehicle and building in the town of Farata, east of Qalqilya.
- Our sources also report that Israeli forces raided a house in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya.
- Palestinian sources say that settlers attacked Palestinian lands and properties in the village of Umm Tuba, south of Jerusalem.
- Palestinian local media outlets report that the Israeli army fired live ammunition indiscriminately inside the Tulkarem camp in the north of the occupied West Bank.
- Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that Israeli forces stormed the town of Surif, north of Hebron in the south of the occupied West Bank.
