NABLUS, October 31, 2024 (WAFA) – In a troubling incident today, a group of Israeli colonists raided olive groves on the outskirts of Kafr Qalil village, south of Nablus, stealing olives from local farmers' lands, according to local and Palestinian security sources.

The sources reported to WAFA that the colonists attacked an area belonging to Sabri and Omar Al-Qanai, two local Palestinian citizens, forcibly taking their olive harvest.

This year's olive-picking season in the West Bank has been marked by repeated assaults from Israeli occupation forces and colonists, escalating to violence including killings, arson of olive trees, and theft of crops, while preventing farmers from accessing their lands.

The Palestinian Authority’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission reports that since the beginning of the olive season this year, there have been 239 incidents of violence by Israeli occupation forces and colonists against olive pickers as of October 29, including 109 cases where farmers were denied access to their fields.

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