NABLUS, November 4, 2024 (WAFA) –Israeli occupation forces on Monday prevented Palestinian farmers from reaching their lands to pick olives in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces and a colonist from the illegal colony Migdolim, who forcibly occupied the village's lands, stormed the northern area and part of the eastern area, and prevented the farmers at gunpoint from reaching their lands there to pick olives, and forced them to leave.

Activist Fouad Hassan from Qusra said that his family owns 12 dunums in this area, adding that they were prevented from reaching it this morning to pick olives.

He added that olives were picked from that area annually in a normal manner, without the need for any coordination from the Israeli occupation authorities to reach it.

This year, the village of Qusra saw daily cases of Israeli forces preventing villagers from reaching the lands and picking olives.

The olive picking season in the West Bank this year is seeing repeated attacks by colonists and occupation forces, which has extended to the point of killing, burning and cutting down olive trees, stealing the crop, and preventing farmers from reaching their lands.

According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, since the beginning of this year's olive season, and until October 29, the occupation forces and colonists have carried out 239 attacks against olive pickers, including 109 cases of preventing access to their lands.

These attacks resulted in the killing of local resident Hanan Abdul Rahman Abu Salama, 60, from the village of Faqqu'a, northeast of Jenin, and the injury of more than 50 others with various injuries in addition to the burning and uprooting of hundreds of olive trees, and the seizing their fruits.

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