Six Palestinian farmers were injured today, Saturday, as a result of an attack launched by Israeli settlers on olive pickers on their agricultural lands, as the occupation army escalated its ongoing campaign in various areas of the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian platforms documented scenes of injuries as a result of a settler attack on farmers in the western town of Al-Laban, Ramallah, while the mayor of the village of Rantis, Majid Khalaf, said that dozens of settlers attacked the farmers while they were working in the olive fields between the villages of Al-Laban (central West Bank) and Rantis, and assaulted them, resulting in the injury of 6. Of them.
Press coverage: Injuries as a result of a settler attack on farmers while picking olives in the western town of Laban, Ramallah. pic.twitter.com/HaQj3b5wJl
– Quds News Network (@qudsn) October 5, 2024
Khalaf added – to Anadolu Agency – that settlers from pastoral outposts summoned others and launched an attack on farmers with stones and sticks, pointing out that the injured suffered wounds and bruises, as some of them received treatment in the field, while others were transferred to the hospital.
📸 Effects of a settler attack on a group of citizens in the village of Al-Laban Al-Gharbi, near Ramallah#Israel_is_terrorist pic.twitter.com/or73nVt3Yo
– Sahat – Urgent 🇵🇸 (@Sa7atPlBreaking) October 5, 2024
The mayor of the village of Rantis indicated that the occupation army arrived at the place, but did not stop the settlers’ attacks, but rather fired gas bombs at the farmers and forced them to leave their lands.
Yesterday, Friday, Palestinian sources reported that Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and olive pickers in the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, and forced them to leave their lands, according to eyewitnesses.
The olive harvest season in the West Bank annually witnesses repeated attacks by settlers on farmers, including burning and cutting down trees, stealing the crop, and preventing farmers from reaching their lands, according to Palestinian officials and citizens.
According to a monthly report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority (governmental), settlers carried out 245 attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank, including “operations of sabotage and theft of property.”
The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Commission confirmed,#Captive_Club The Palestinian “that the Israeli occupation authorities carry out field executions against Palestinians, following their feet, on #Assassination The liberated prisoner, Ahmed Awaisa (30 years old), from Wadi Al-Faraa in Tubas, after they surrounded his family’s home, shot him, and arrested him… pic.twitter.com/4VTJ620KbZ
– Quds Press Agency (@QudsPress) October 5, 2024
Martyr and raids
This comes after an Israeli force surrounded a house in the Wadi Al-Faraa area, south of Tubas, in the northern West Bank today, then opened fire on the young man, Ahmed Awaisa, and arrested him, wounding him, before he died from his serious wounds. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed that the occupation executed Awaisa during his arrest.
In addition to Tubas, Israeli forces stormed the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank today at dawn and carried out raids in some of its neighborhoods. Palestinian sources said that resistance fighters clashed with the intruding forces in the vicinity of the Old City of Nablus.
The occupation forces also stormed Al-Ain camp, east of Nablus, and the towns of Burqa and Beit Furik. Palestinian sources confirmed that Israeli soldiers took a citizen as a human shield during the storming of Al-Ain camp.
Coinciding with its war on Gaza since October 7, the army and settlers escalated their attacks on the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, which left – in addition to the martyrs and wounded – more than 9,185 Palestinian detainees.
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