RAMALLAH, October 21, 2025 (WAFA) – Mu'ayyad Shaaban, head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said that the Israeli occupation army and colonists have carried out a total of 158 attacks against olive pickers since the beginning of the current season.
In a press release issued by the commission on Tuesday, he added that commission teams monitored 17 attacks by the occupation army and 141 attacks by colonists.
Shaaban affirmed that these attacks ranged from violent physical assaults, arrest campaigns, restrictions of movement, denial of access, intimidation and terrorizing in all its forms, and direct gunfire, as occurred in the Tubas Governorate.
The attacks were concentrated in the Nablus governorate with 56 attacks, followed by the Ramallah governorate with 51 attacks, and then the Hebron governorate with 15 attacks.
Shaaban said that this season, 57 cases of movement restrictions and intimidation of olive pickers were recorded, in addition to 22 cases of beating and assaulting farmers.
He added that this season, which coincided with the ongoing aggression against Palestinians, is the most difficult and dangerous in recent decades, due to the army and colonists' exploitation of wartime systems to commit crimes, supported by numerous policies and legislation that reinforce aggression, terrorism, and oppression, particularly the closure of governorates, the transfer of weapons to colonists' militias, and, most dangerously, their exemption from accountability and trial.
He added that this season has witnessed an increase in the imposition of closed military zones on agricultural lands.
He pointed out that 74 attacks have targeted olive-growing lands this season, including 29 incidents of cutting, breaking, and bulldozing olive-growing lands, resulting in the destruction of a total of 795 olive trees.
Shaaban emphasized that the occupying state continues its attempts to disrupt the Palestinian way of life, which is historically linked to the land as a source of livelihood and a way of life.
He added that the occupying state systematically and deliberately targets the olive season, given the emotional and authentic relationship between the Palestinian citizen and the land.
He emphasized that everything the occupying state is doing now falls within the framework of undermining the strong relationship with the land, as part of declared and clear plans to control Palestinian geography and prevent citizens from accessing it.
Shaaban concluded by saying that Palestinians, by insisting on exercising their right to access their lands, ensuring the success of the season, and defying the occupation's decisions, have thwarted the colonists' plans and restored respect for the resilience of the Palestinians, who defy the occupation and break its measures.
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