AL-KHALIL, (PIC)
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while picking olives in the town of Yatta, south of Al-Khalil, on Monday preventing them from harvesting their olive fruits.
According to local sources, a group of extremist settlers attacked farmers and olive pickers in Um Nir area, east of Yatta, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces (IOF), and beat them and threw stones at them.
The sources revealed that the settlers’ attacks targeted lands belonging to the Burqan family, adding that settlers attempted to steal a vehicle of one of the farmers while he was picking olive fruits in the Birin area east of Yatta.
The sources added that the IOF forced farmers from the Al-Jabarin and Al-Habour families in Um Nir to leave their lands, banning them from picking their olives.
The olive harvest season in the West Bank is witnessing repeated attacks by settlers and IOF, which have reached the point of killing, burning and cutting down olive trees, stealing the crops, and preventing farmers from reaching their lands.
