On Sunday, the ongoing Israeli paramilitary settler attacks on the Palestinian olive harvest (the main source of livelihood for many Palestinians) continued with violent assaults on olive harvesters in the Hebron and Bethlehem area, the destruction of olive trees and the ravaging of Palestinian farmland.
In the Mount Juwaihan area, east of Hebron, Israeli occupation forces began bulldozing large areas of citizens’ lands.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that a number of occupation forces have begun bulldozing citizens’ lands in Jabal Juwaihan in the Bouira area east of Hebron, in preparation for seizing them for the benefit of its settlement expansion.
Groups of paramilitary colonists, protected by the occupation forces, had built wooden houses to live on the summit of Mount Juwayhan for several years, sometimes visiting them and performing Talmudic rituals in the place.
This high-altitude area, overlooking large areas east of Hebron, is subjected to continuous incursions by colonists under the protection of the occupation forces, the frequency of which has increased significantly recently.
In conjunction with these bulldozing operations, it has become clear that the occupation aims to expand this settlement outpost and occupy it with colonists.
In Wadi Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron, Israeli paramilitary colonists cut down more than 80 perennial olive trees.
Local sources reported to Wafa that armed groups from the settlements of Asfar and Kodovim, both located on the town’s stolen lands, cut down and cut down trees with electric saws in the Wadi Sa’ir area, completely destroying them. The trees are owned by a number of the town’s farmers.
On October 1, colonists from the same two colonies cut off more than 200 Perennial olive tree and more than 100 almond trees in the same area in the north of the country, as part of a series of ongoing attacks aimed at displacing people from their lands in favor of colonial expansion.
Also Sunday, Israeli colonists plowed hundreds of dunams of citizens’ agricultural lands in the village of Sakka and the town of Beit Awa, west of Hebron, in preparation for seizing the land.
The head of the Sakka Village Council told Wafa that groups of colonists from the Nahhot colony attacked citizens’ agricultural lands east of the village, and plowed more than 500 dunums of them during the past few days.
He added that the colonists aim to seize these lands, whose area is estimated at more than a thousand dunums of fertile plains, extending between the village of Sakka and the town of Beit Awa, owned by a large number of families, and whose agriculture constitutes a primary source of income for them.
He stressed that the people are present on a daily basis on their lands, and are confronting the attempts of the colonists to seize those lands, calling on all international and local institutions to support and back the people in their steadfastness, and to protect their property.
Bethlehem area:
Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees from Palestinian lands in the village of Al-Maniya, southeast of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
The head of the Maniya Village Council, Zayed Kawazba, told our correspondent that colonists from “His Excellency Amos”, established on citizens’ lands, cut down olive trees planted on an area estimated at about two dunams in an area known as “Al-Qurm”, belonging to the citizen Mahmoud Jabareen.
Kawazba added that yesterday, colonists attacked farmers in the same area and severely beat Jabareen, causing him to suffer a broken hand, before the occupation forces arrested him.
In the northern West Bank today, Israeli settlers stole olive crops from Palestinian lands in the town of Burin, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
According to the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, its crews have monitored a total of 158 attacks against olive pickers since the beginning of the current season The occupation army carried out 17 attacks, while the colonists carried out 141.
During the annual olive harvest season, Palestinian lands are subjected to repeated attacks by colonists and the occupation army. Farmers continually face attacks and violations that prevent them from accessing their lands, resulting in significant material losses and increasing their daily suffering under the occupation.
Since October 7, 2023, the colonialists have carried out a total of 7,154 attacks against citizens and their property, causing the death of 33 citizens in the West Bank.
The attacks by the occupation and its colonists also caused the uprooting, destruction, and damage of a total of 48,728 trees, including 37,237 olive trees, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
