10/18/2024–|Last updated: 10/18/202403:22 PM (Mecca time)
Today, Friday, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in the Nablus Governorate in the occupied West Bank, while a foreign activist was injured as a result of the Israeli army beating her in Hebron.
The official Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that the Israeli army assaulted a foreign activist who was accompanied by Palestinian farmers who were attacked by settlers while picking olives in the village of Susya in Musafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
She explained that the occupation forces attacked with sticks a female activist who was volunteering to pick olives with Palestinians, without further details about the activist’s identity or nationality.
The agency indicated that the solidarity activist refused to be transferred by an Israeli ambulance, and was transferred by a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance to receive treatment at Abu Al-Hussein Al-Qasim Hospital in the town of Yatta.
In a related context, Ahmed Snobar, the mayor of Yatma village in Nablus Governorate, said in a statement to the media that more than 200 settlers attacked the town from 3 sides, and targeted olive pickers in their fields.
He said that the attack took place from the west, north and northwest, with the presence of the occupation army, which did not prevent it but rather fired gas bombs towards the farmers in an attempt to expel them from their lands.
Snobar pointed out that the people of the village gathered to confront the settlers, which led to the outbreak of confrontations and the injury of Palestinians to suffocation as a result of the occupation army firing tear gas at the people of the village.
“Lethal methods”
In addition, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the United Nations, warned yesterday, Thursday, that the increasing violence practiced by settlers during the olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank threatens the security and livelihood of Palestinians in the region.
He added that 32 attacks launched by Israeli settlers had been documented since the beginning of the month, noting that 39 Palestinians were injured while picking olives in these attacks, and that about 600 trees and seedlings were vandalized, cut down, or stolen.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs said that Israel is using lethal, war-like methods in the West Bank, which raises serious concerns.
Settlers’ attacks against Palestinian farmers intensify with the olive harvest season in October of each year.
According to data from the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, settlers have committed 2,777 attacks in the West Bank since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, which led to the death of 19 Palestinians and the displacement of 28 Palestinian Bedouin communities in the region.
