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Israeli Forces Shoot AA Photojournalist Issam Rimawi During West Bank Olive Harvest Near Ramallah

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Israeli forces shot AA photographer Issam Rimawi with a rubber-coated bullet near Ramallah. He was covering olive harvest-related clashes in the Deir Nizam area when shot.

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Israeli Forces Shoot AA Photojournalist Issam Rimawi During West Bank Olive Harvest Near Ramallah
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Harvest Violence Near Ramallah

Israeli forces shot and wounded Anadolu Agency (AA) Palestinian photojournalist Issam Rimawi with a rubber-coated bullet Saturday as he covered the olive harvest and confrontations between Palestinian farmers and Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Rimawi was struck in his right calf by a rubber-coated bullet in Deir Nizam, near Ramallah, and he was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Rimawi said a scuffle had broken out between Israeli settlers and Palestinians before Israeli forces arrived and intervened, and he said soldiers opened fire on the Palestinians despite journalists wearing clearly identifiable press vests and helmets. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets at the Palestinians, siding with the settlers, according to Palestinian accounts, as farmers had appealed to activists for help harvesting their olives after attacks by Israeli settlers prevented them from reaching their land.

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Image: Al Jazeera
Reporting for this sectionDaily Sabah

Wounded Reported by Red Crescent

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported at least nine people wounded by Israeli settlers and forces during the olive harvest in the Ramallah-area village of Deir Abu Mashal. The Red Crescent said the wounded included at least one person who took a live bullet to the leg and others who were beaten or hit by rubber bullets, and the IDF did not immediately comment.

Haaretz reported that the Palestinian Red Crescent said twelve Palestinians were wounded in two attacks by Israeli settlers as settler violence continued to target Palestinian olive harvesters across the West Bank. The Times of Israel said Palestinian media earlier reported that photojournalist Issam Rimawi of Turkish news agency Anadolu was hit in the thigh by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces in Deir Abu Mashal while he covered the olive harvest there.

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Access, Arrests, and Escalation

Israeli forces and settlers escalated their assaults across the occupied West Bank in a campaign that included arrests, raids, attacks on olive-pickers, and burning trees, according to Al Jazeera’s correspondent. The correspondent said Israeli settlers stole a portion of the harvest they gathered in the Deir 'Aziya area west of Ramallah, and the Israeli army declared the town's lands a closed military zone after the assaults.

The Palestinian presidency ordered its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its mission to the UN to request an urgent session of the Security Council to provide international protection to the Palestinians, after dozens of attacks by Israeli settlers against farmers and olive-pickers in occupied West Bank. The Palestinian presidency spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said the Security Council must assume its legal and political responsibilities and adopt urgent measures to stop the settlers' attacks and the Israeli Army’s operations, according to a statement carried by Wafa.

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