Settlers attack olive pickers and steal their fruit in Ramallah and Nablus

Terrorist settlers escalated their attacks on Palestinian farmers and the olive season in villages of Ramallah and Nablus, stealing fruit, assaulting trees, and preventing farmers from working, under the protection of the occupation army.

Terrorist settlers escalated their attacks on Palestinian farmers and the olive season in several villages and towns in the Ramallah and Nablus governorates on Monday, October 5, 2026. In the village of Um Safa, northwest of Ramallah, settlers stole olive fruit from citizens' lands, simultaneously assaulting trees, beating them with sticks, and vandalizing them. Settlers, under the protection of the occupation army, also stole olive fruit from citizens' lands in the town of Al-Mazra'a Al-Gharbiya, northwest of Ramallah. In the village of Abwein, northwest of Ramallah, settlers stole olive fruit while destroying trees. In the same context, gangs of terrorist settlers attacked olive pickers in the village of At-Taybeh, east of Ramallah, with citizens reporting that these gangs had been stealing olive fruit in the area for days. Settler gangs continue to steal the olive crop in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, as part of a systematic policy of plundering land and its fruit. Earlier today, terrorist settlers attacked olive pickers in the Bab al-Jami area, west of the town of Burqa, northwest of Nablus. The article describes these attacks as systematic and targeting farmers' livelihoods.