Israeli settlers beat Palestinian farmers on video as attacks mount during West Bank olive harvest
More than 150 settler attacks have occurred during the olive harvest season, with one assault causing serious injury to a Palestinian woman, according to local and UN reports.
- In the West Bank, violent attacks by Israeli settlers targeted Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest, as documented by journalist Jasper Nathaniel's video footage.
- Afaf Saleh Abu Alia, a Palestinian woman, was assaulted by a settler while harvesting olives, resulting in her hospitalization with injuries.
- UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned the violence, emphasizing that such incidents have increased in the past two years in the West Bank.
- Israeli settlers violently attacked Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest, as documented by US journalist Jasper Nathaniel, whose video footage has been viewed nearly two million times on X.
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Videos show Israeli settlers attacking Palestinian olive harvesters in West Bank
Israeli settlers descended on Palestinian olive harvesters and activists this week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, beating them with clubs in an attack Palestinian health officials said sent at least one woman to the hospital with serious injuries. The attack on Sunday in the town of Turmus Ayya, which was captured in videos obtained by Associated Press, came as Palestinians say settler violence in the region is worsening. The United Nations …
While US Vice-President J.D. Vance was visiting Israel on Tuesday, 21 October, to support the ceasefire in Gaza, settler violence continues in the occupied West Bank, largely absent from the Washington-supported peace plan. According to the Palestinian authorities, more than 150 attacks against farmers were recorded on the margins of the olive harvest that began in early October.
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Afaf Abu Alia, 53 years old, victim of the assault on Turmus Ayya, tells of the kicks inflicted by the violent without face. "They wanted to kill me, and the Israeli army ...
Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has spiked during this year's olive harvest.
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