NABLUS, November 1, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists attacked on Saturday Palestinians harvesting olives in the village of Burin, south of Nablus.
Local sources reported that a guard from the Yitzhar settlement, accompanied by colonists, attacked the Palestinians as they were picking olives on land between Burin and Huwara. The colonists assaulted several of them, forced them to leave, and scattered the olives they had gathered.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the Israeli army and colonists have carried out a total of 259 attacks against olive harvesters since the start of the season in the first week of October until the 28th of the same month.
The Palestinian Authority's Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs stated in a press release issued last Tuesday that its teams documented 41 attacks by the Israeli army and 218 by colonists. The Commission noted that these attacks ranged from violent physical assaults and arrest campaigns to restrictions on movement and access, intimidation and harassment in all its forms, and direct gunfire, as occurred in the Tubas Governorate.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also reported that this year's olive harvest season in the West Bank witnessed the highest level of colonist attacks in five years.
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