Early Friday morning, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers launched a coordinated assault on Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
Eyewitnesses said a group of colonizers from the “Ramot” colony—illegally built on confiscated village land—attacked farmers in the Wadi al-Madina area with stones and verbal abuse, attempting to forcibly expel them from their own olive orchards.
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The assault occurred in front of Israeli occupation forces, who did not intervene to stop the attack. Despite the aggression, the farmers stood their ground and continued harvesting.
Such attacks recur annually during the olive harvest season, as part of a broader campaign to seize more land from the village, which is encircled by the apartheid wall and expanding colonies.
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Beit Iksa has endured years of systematic violence by colonizers, particularly during the olive harvest season.
Israeli authorities frequently restrict farmers’ access to their own land, requiring special permits and limiting entry to specific days.
These policies form part of a deliberate strategy to displace Palestinian residents and annex agricultural lands adjacent to the Ramot settlement and the separation barrier.
