By SCM International Desk I Friday, Oct. O9, 2026
PALESTINE – The annual olive harvest in the occupied West Bank has turned from a cherished tradition into a period of growing insecurity, as armed Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and Israeli forces prevent families from reaching their own agricultural land.
Israeli settler militias open fire as they storm the neighborhood of Al-Rihan, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Colonial Israeli settlers graze their sheep among Palestinian homes in the Bedouin community of Khirbet Umm Al-Kheir in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, as part of their ongoing attempts to de facto take over the land.
Israeli occupation forces storm a wedding in the town of Al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, and detain several Palestinians.
Under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, Israeli settlers attack and injure Palestinians in the town of Usarin, Nablus, occupied West Bank.
Israeli occupation bulldozers block agricultural roads in the western area of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli settlers continue preventing Palestinians from reaching their lands and harvesting their olive crops in the Wadi Abbas area, west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli settler militias attack Palestinian farmers while they harvest olives in Wadi Al-Shaar, near Salfit, in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli occupation forces use loudspeakers to expel and threaten Palestinian farmers in Wadi Abwein, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli occupation soldiers attack Palestinian agricultural engineer Ghassan Al-Hajj Muhammad and prevent him from accessing his land in Al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah.
Israeli occupation bulldozers uproot olive trees from Palestinian farmland in the village of Madma, south of Nablus, occupied West Bank.
Under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, Israeli settlers steal olives from Palestinian farmland in the town of Surif, north of Hebron, occupied West Bank.
Breaking | Israeli settler gangs attack Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest in the village of Marda in the central West Bank.
Israeli settler militias are stealing ripe olives from Palestinian-owned land near the village of Qaryout, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
Extremist Israeli settlers attacked the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, and set fire to the vehicle of international journalists Andrey Khrzhanovskiy and Adele Shoko.
None of them was physically harmed, yet the arson documents the scale of attacks faced by the Palestinian villagers