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Colonization And Wall Resistance Commission Says Colonists Hit Olive Harvest With 482 Attacks
“The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (WCRC) said that it documented 482 attacks targeting the olive harvest season”
“As soon as the 43-year-old farmer opened the door, he told NBC News in an interview, the brutal beating began.”
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Colonists carried out 482 olive-harvest attacks across nine West Bank governorates. Attacks included stealing harvests and damaging crops, with incidents reported near Hebron and Wadi Jheish.
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482 attacks, nine governorates
The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said colonists carried out 482 attacks targeting the olive harvest across nine West Bank governorates since the start of the season up to Sunday, October 25. The commission said the attacks spanned from the northern to the southern West Bank and concentrated in governorates where farmers and olive groves face repeated targeting. The commission added that colonists’ actions coincided with restrictive measures by the Israeli military that severely limited farmers’ access to their lands.
The commission emphasized that targeting the olive harvest has become a recurring tactic to disrupt Palestinian cultivation and undermine Palestinians’ presence, particularly in areas adjacent to colonies and colonial outposts. The commission concluded that these coordinated efforts by the Israeli occupation aim to weaken a vital pillar of national steadfastness and Palestinians’ capacity to remain on their land.
Hebron theft, live fire
Israeli colonists stole Palestinian farmers’ olive harvest from the area adjacent to Wadi al-Rakhim, where colonists had already set up an outpost in front of a Palestinian’s dwelling, and destroyed several trees. Armed colonists attempted to seize Palestinian-owned land in the Hamasa area of Dura and prevent its owners from accessing it. The assailants opened live fire at the landowners who attempted to repel the attack, but Israeli occupation forces intervened and detained two of them.
The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission documented 482 attacks targeting the olive harvest season from the beginning of the season through Sunday, October 25. WAFA said the commission’s statement linked the attacks to restrictive measures by the Israeli military that limited farmers’ access to their lands.
Nablus beating and tractor
Five settlers stormed farmer Yousef Abu-Aisha’s house in a village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank in the dead of night, and NBC News said the brutal beating began as soon as he opened the door. Yousef Abu-Aisha told NBC News in an interview that the beating began when he opened the door. Haaretz reported that Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters Sunday on land belonging to the village of Immatin, south of Nablus, pushing a tractor loaded with equipment down a slope.
The commission’s statement linked the attacks to restrictive measures by the Israeli military that limited farmers’ access to their lands. NBC News said the olive harvest in the West Bank is upended by Israeli settler attacks and military lockdown, as it described violence during the harvest season.