Extremist Israeli settlers have stepped up assaults against Palestinian farmers across Hawara’s olive groves south of the occupied West Bank province of Nablus.
Head of the West Bank department at Rabbis for Human Rights Zakaria Sadah said dozens of Israeli settlers violently attacked Palestinian farmers on Monday evening while they were picking olives in their groves northwest of Hawara town.
The Israeli army forced the Palestinians out of their farmlands after they ruled that all olive-picking activities in the area be immediately halted.
Palestinian local Monawar Abu Zaher sounded the alarm over the heavy damage wrought by such Israeli assaults on Palestinians’ olive harvest adding that thousands of olive trees have not received proper care for over ten years and are thus on the verge of collapse.
