WEST BANK, (PIC)
Two West Bank farmers were injured on Tuesday morning when extremist Jewish settlers opened fire at them in Immatin town, east of Qalqilya, while the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) delivered 20 stop-work orders against greenhouses in the northeast of Jenin.
The Red Crescent said that its paramedics provided medical assistance for two citizens who suffered bullet injuries before evacuating them to the Nablus Hospital.
Local sources reported that armed settlers from the illegal settlement of Havat Gilad stormed the eastern side of Immatin and attacked Palestinians while they were in their grove picking olives in Wadi al-Ahmar area.
The settlers fired live bullets at the olive farmers, injuring one of them, 49, with a bullet to the head, and another one, 45, with a bullet to the thigh.
Since the olive harvest season started in mid-October, Jewish settlers and Israeli forces in the West Bank have launched dozens of attacks on Palestinian farmers and their groves in different areas.
In another incident, Palestinian farmers received 20 stop-work orders from the Israeli army against greenhouses belonging to them in al-Jalamah village, northeast of Jenin.
The greenhouses stretch over 20 dunums of land along an-Nassera road in the western area of the village.
The greenhouses, which contain different vegetable crops, have been in the area for several years.
The IOF had delivered more than 150 stop-work notices against Palestinian agricultural structures in the same village during the past year, and demolished three greenhouses two weeks ago.
On Monday, extremist settlers savagely assaulted a Palestinian young man in Deir Istiya town in Salfit province, northwest of the West Bank.
Local sources said that settlers attacked 27-year-old Yousef Suleiman as he was harvesting olive crops in al-Maghiba area, north of Deir Istiya, and tried to kidnap him.
Meanwhile, Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Yakir near Deir Istiya town dumped yesterday their wastewater into olive groves, causing large-scale air, water and soil pollution in the area.
One of the farmers said that his olive crops were destroyed by the settler sewage, so he was unable to harvest olives from 200 trees in his grove.
In another incident on the same day, extremist settlers set fire to an olive grove in Sinjil town, north of Ramallah, before local residents managed to control the blaze.
