Attacks and Tree Burnings Mar West Bank Olive Harvest

The olive harvest season in the West Bank has opened amid dozens of settler attacks targeting farmers, homes and fields across several areas, leaving people injured and trees burned.

The violence has coincided with the seasonal work of picking olives, with attacks reaching both agricultural land and residential properties.

Farmers were among those targeted. The reported injuries and burning of trees have marked a violent start to the harvest, though no precise casualty figures or tally of damaged trees was provided.

Palestinians accused the Israeli army of protecting the settlers involved in the attacks. The accusation places the military’s conduct alongside settler violence at the centre of Palestinian concerns as the harvest begins.