SALFIT, October 3, 2025 (WAFA) — Israeli colonists forced more than ten Palestinian families to leave their agricultural lands in the village of Farkha, in the central occupied West Bank province of Salfit, on Friday, preventing them from harvesting olives under the protection of Israeli forces.

Mustafa Hammad, head of the Farkha Village Council, told WAFA that the council and the agricultural committee had organized an early volunteer day to pick olives after colonists had previously vandalized olive trees and stolen the harvest about a week ago.

Residents heading to lands in the northwest of the village found their olive crops stolen and their lands used for grazing. Colonists reportedly attempted to assault residents, leaving a young man with a broken nose, who was transferred to Martyr Yasser Arafat Hospital in Salfit. More than ten families were forcibly removed from their lands.

Human rights groups have criticized such attacks as part of a systematic effort by Israeli colonists, often backed by the military, to seize Palestinian land, destroy livelihoods, and intimidate local communities.

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