Ramallah:Four Palestinians sustained injuries on Friday after being attacked by Israeli colonists while harvesting olives near the village of Burqa, east of the city.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA, local sources indicated that the colonists assaulted the olive pickers, resulting in injuries to four individuals.
This incident is part of a broader escalation of violence by state-backed Israeli colonist militias against Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season. The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission noted that between October 1 and 12, 136 out of 219 attacks recorded by Israeli forces and colonists were related to the olive harvest, involving assaults on pickers, hindrance of access to farmland, and the theft or destruction of olive crops and trees.