Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday morning prevented Palestinian farmers from Kifl Hares village from entering their lands adjacent to Ariel settlement north of Salfit.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers arrested farmer Abdul-Karim Yousef while he was trying to enter his land.
According to the farmers of Kifl Hares the IOF soldiers usually refuse to allow them to work in their lands until they obtain the necessary Israeli permits which are rarely issued.
Anti-settlement researcher Khaled Ma’ali said that during the olive harvest season Palestinians are regularly turned around by the IOF attacked by settlers or only given a few days to harvest hundreds of olive trees.
Ma’ali noted that Israeli settlers sometimes take advantage of these entry bans imposed on Palestinian farmers and steal their crops or bulldoze their lands.
