Israeli forces bar olive pickers from reaching their lands
Israeli forces fired live rounds and tear gas at farmers picking olives in the West Bank, as the Mata information centre documented 1,401 violations in a single week.
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Israeli forces fired live rounds and tear gas at farmers picking olives in the West Bank, as the Mata information centre documented 1,401 violations in a single week.
Israeli Rabbi Dov Lior issued a Jewish ruling permitting settlers to pick and steal olives from Palestinian groves in the occupied West Bank, amid wide controversy and ongoing attacks during a tense harvest season.
An Israeli settler rabbi rules that settlers may harvest olives from Palestinian-owned groves, as settler violence surges during the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank.
Two brothers and their father were injured Friday when settlers attacked them while they were picking olives in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, with injuries ranging from light to moderate.
The United Nations says settler attacks during the current olive harvest season have exceeded last season's total, with more than 200 attacks and one Palestinian killed and over 120 injured.
Settler attacks on villages and towns across the occupied West Bank, concentrated around Ramallah, left several Palestinians and a foreign journalist injured and vehicles and olive trees burned.