Six Palestinians, including a child and four women, were injured in settler attacks in the occupied West Bank. The attacks followed a religious edict by a far-right rabbi permitting the seizure of Palestinian olives.
01Summary
- 01Six people, including a child and four women, were injured by settlers in Ma'in village, Masafer Yatta, on Saturday.
- 02Israeli forces opened fire on farmers in Deir Ammar and arrested landowners and olive pickers across the West Bank.
- 03In Kafr Malek, settlers killed about 20 sheep, and Israeli forces fired tear gas that set a house on fire.
- 04There have been 300 documented attacks since the beginning of October, Al Jazeera reported.
- 05The attacks follow a religious edict by Rabbi Dov Lior permitting olive harvesting on Palestinian land, claiming biblical entitlement.
02Why it matters
These attacks threaten the Palestinian olive harvest, a critical economic and cultural livelihood, and signal escalating settler violence with state complicity ahead of Israeli elections.
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