NABLUS, October 9, 2011 (WAFA) –Israeli authorities Sunday re-scheduled Palestinian farmers’ access to their land confined behind the Apartheid Wall to pick olives, which was scheduled today till October 21 due to the escalated Jewish settlers’ attacks, said local official.

Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of the settlements file at the Palestinian Authority in the northern part of the West Bank, said the Israeli side informed the Palestinian Coordination Office of the decision to postpone olive picking to control and prevent any possible settlers’ attacks, and to protect the Palestinians.

The Israeli authorities grant Palestinian farmers a one-day permit to access their land behind the Wall and harvest the olives every year.

In a related matter, Jewish settlers attacked Palestinians picking olives in Awarta, a village east of Nablus earlier this day, while settlers are believed to be behind stealing olives in the village of Frata, near Qalqilia in the northern West Bank.

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