NABLUS (PIC)– Jewish settlers on Friday attacked a group of around 200 Palestinians who were picking olives in the village of Jalud near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Eyewitnesses said that the olive pickers consisted of the farmers themselves and Palestinian and foreign volunteers who came to the village to help them harvest their crop.

Head of the village council Abdullah Qasem said that a group of settlers attacked the olive harvesters and that fist fights broke out before IOF troops arrived and fired teargas extensively causing dozens of cases of breathing difficulty.

Palestinian medical sources said that 3 injured people were taken to Rafidia hospital.

On Thursday a Palestinian woman picking olives in Beit Fourik ended up with two broken legs when settlers attacked her and her two teenage sons.

NABLUS (PIC)– Jewish settlers attacked on Monday morning Palestinians harvesting olives in the village of Azmout to the east of Nablus while Palestinian farmers in Nablus district have appealed for protection from settler attacks.

Local sources reported that dozens of settlers from the nearby settlement of Elon Moreh which built on land confiscated from Palestinians east of Nablus attacked Palestinian families harvesting their olive crop from their olive groves and tried to stop them from continuing with the harvesting.

The sources added that fist fights between the Palestinian farmers and the settlers ensued and farmers refused to leave their fields and insisted on continuing with their harvesting.

The settlers have recently launched a campaign of attacks on Palestinian villages and olive groves especially in the Nablus area on the eve of the olive harvesting season which starts early October.

 Meanwhile Palestinian villagers to the south of Nablus have appealed for protection during the season so that they can harvest their olive crop without being attacked by Jewish settlers or the wild hogs the settlers release into Palestinian farms.

A Palestinian woman was injured in the village of Awarta to the south of Nablus when she was suddenly attacked by a wild hog while harvesting olives.

A number of settler attacks have taken place lately on those villages to the south of Nablus in the form of burning and breaking trees attacking farmers and stealing their harvest.