OCCUPIED WEST BANK – The head of the
Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Minister Muayad Shaban, stated on Wednesday that Israeli
Occupation Forces and settlers carried out a total of 333 attacks against olive
harvesters since the beginning of the season in the first week of last month.
اضافة اعلان
According to Hala, Shaban stated that
Occupation Forces carried out 139 attacks, concentrated in Bethlehem with 40 attacks, Nablus with
36, and Salfit with 21. Settlers carried out 194 attacks, concentrated in the
governorates of Nablus with 74 attacks, Salfit with 33, and Hebron with 27.
He pointed out that the
occupation forces and settlers
prevented citizens from accessing an area of 500,000 dunams of their land, in
addition to 200,000 dunams besieged by the occupation in settlements, and
300,000 dunams isolated behind the apartheid wall.
Shaban stated that the current olive season, which coincided
with the comprehensive aggression of the occupation on the
West Bank and Gaza,
was the most difficult and dangerous in recent decades. Settlers exploited the
rules of war to commit crimes supported by many policies and legislations that
promote attacks, terrorism, and intimidation, especially the closure of
governorates, the distribution of weapons to settler militias, and their
constant sense of impunity for their crimes.
He added that this season witnessed serious incidents, the
most prominent of which was the martyrdom of the citizen Bilal Muhammad Saleh
in the village of Sawiya by the bullets of settlers while picking olives. This
was in addition to 40 incidents of gunfire and threats with weapons against
farmers, 55 physical assault and intimidation incidents, 31 prevention
incidents from accessing fields and farms, 38 eviction incidents from fields,
and 29 crop theft incidents.
He further stated that 126 attacks were carried out against
olive-planted lands in the last season, including 37 incidents of cutting,
breaking, and uprooting olive-planted lands, leading to the destruction of a
total of 3,852 olive trees concentrated in the governorates of Nablus, Hebron,
and Salfit.
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