NABLUS, (PIC)
Israeli settlers raided Palestinian olive groves on the outskirts of Kafr Qalil village, south of Nablus, stealing olives from local farmers’ lands, according to local and Palestinian security sources.
The sources reported that a group of settlers attacked an area belonging to Sabri and Omar Al-Qanai, two local Palestinian citizens, forcibly taking their olive harvest.
This year’s olive-picking season in the West Bank has been marked by repeated assaults by Israeli occupation forces and settlers that amount to violence including killings, arson of olive trees, and theft of crops, while preventing farmers from accessing their lands.
The Palestinian Authority’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission reported that since the beginning of the olive season this year up to October 29, there have been 239 incidents of violence by Israeli occupation forces and settlers against olive pickers, including 109 cases where farmers were denied access to their fields.
