Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, backed by Israeli occupation forces, assaulted Palestinian land restoration workers and olive harvesters in the town of Beit Duqqu, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday.
The attack occurred in the “Koroum al-Harayeq” area, where colonizers beat workers, vandalized agricultural equipment, and seized computers belonging to the crew.
Eyewitnesses reported that the colonizers targeted workers engaged in land rehabilitation and olive harvesting—two vital practices that sustain Palestinian livelihoods and affirm land ownership.
After the assault, Israeli occupation forces issued a military order banning olive harvesting and land restoration in the area, effectively criminalizing agricultural labor, and severing access to ancestral farmland.
This incident is part of a broader campaign of colonizer violence and military enforcement aimed at displacing Palestinian communities and obstructing seasonal harvests.
The olive harvest, a cornerstone of Palestinian cultural and economic life, has been repeatedly targeted through beatings, arson, theft, and movement restrictions.
The assault in Beit Duqqu reflects a coordinated strategy to erase Palestinian presence by attacking both the people and the land—criminalizing cultivation, destroying tools of labor, and enforcing apartheid through military decrees.
Also in Deit Duqqu, Israeli soldiers assaulted three young Palestinian men and caused damage to their car in Wadi Salman area of the town.
In related news, Israeli colonizers established a new outpost on Sunday near the Bedouin communities of Abu Ghaliya and al-‘Arara, east of the town of ‘Anata in occupied East Jerusalem.
On Sunday evening, Israeli colonizers set fire to dozens of olive trees in the village of Majdal Bani Fadel, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
On Sunday morning, a Palestinian man was injured after being assaulted by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the village of Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Saturday, Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers launched coordinated assaults across the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian towns, refugee camps, and agricultural lands, resulting in injuries and property destruction.
On Saturday morning, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked citizens and international activists while they were picking olives in the village of Burin, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Earlier Saturday, six Palestinians—including volunteer medics, journalists, and a local farmer—were injured during an assault by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
This escalation follows the killing of two Palestinian children—Mohammad Abdullah Taym (16 years old) and Mohammad Rashad Fadl Qasim (16 years old), by Israeli forces the previous night. The boys were shot near the apartheid wall in the upper neighborhood of Al-Jadira. Their bodies remain withheld by the occupation.
Also Saturday, Israeli colonizers stole olive crops from Palestinian land in the town of Aqraba, located south of Nablus.
The occupied West Bank witnessed an unprecedented surge in violations by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers—during October 2025, marking the highest monthly toll in nearly two decades, the United Nations said.
n the early hours of Saturday morning, Israeli colonizers set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
On Friday, Israeli colonizers demolished residential tents and livestock shelters belonging to Palestinian residents in Khirbet Hamsa, in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, on Friday.
On Thursday, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks, injuring a child and destroying olive trees, after targeting Palestinians and their property, in the occupied West Bank.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers invaded the Bedouin community of Al-Hathrawa near Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and demolished four mobile homes used by local families.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission documented 766 colonizer attacks in October alone, concentrated in the districts of Ramallah and Al-Bireh (195), Nablus (179), and Hebron (126). These included 352 incidents of theft and vandalism targeting Palestinian property and farmland.
Among the victims was Jihad Mohammad Ajaj, 26, from Deir Jarir, who was shot and killed by colonizers in a direct armed assault. His death brings the number of Palestinians killed by colonizer gunfire since the start of 2025 to 14.
Colonizer violence, often carried out with the backing of Israeli occupation forces, also led to the uprooting, burning, and poisoning of over 1,200 olive trees—an emblem of Palestinian heritage and sustenance.
It is worth mentioning that, on Wednesday, Israeli occupation authorities issued two new tenders for the construction of a colonial neighborhood in the illegal colony of Adam (Givat Binyamin), built on stolen Palestinian land northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
