Settler Attacks Mark the West Bank Olive Harvest: Journalist and Foreign Volunteer Hurt Near Qusra, Over 100 Vehicles Burned in Another Village
On November 10, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and accompanying foreign volunteers harvesting olives on farmland between the towns of Qusra and Jalud, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, injuring European Pressphoto Agency photojournalist Alaa Badarneh and a foreign activist. Qusra Mayor Abdul Azim Wadi said the attackers threw stones and beat the harvesters; Palestinian Red Crescent medics treated Badarneh at the scene for a hand injury, and Israeli soldiers arrived and tried to separate the sides.
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, settlers attacked the village of al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus, on November 11, torching a vehicle scrapyard and burning more than 100 vehicles, dozens of olive trees and storage facilities, with damage estimated at over one million shekels. The same day in Salfit governorate, a 42-year-old Palestinian woman picking olives with her husband and children was moderately injured when settlers threw stones at her, striking her in the head.
Wadi said repeated settler attacks have left Qusra residents able to harvest only about a third of the olive trees on their land this year. Attacks on harvesters across the West Bank have risen since the olive harvest season began in early October.
(Source: Associated Press)
Source: Associated Press
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Photo: 图：约旦河西岸 Kafr Quddum 的橄榄采收（资料图）。照片：CC BY-SA 2.0，经维基共享资源 / Olive harvest in Kafr Quddum in the West Bank (file photo). Photo: CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
