Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive pickers on Friday while they were working on their lands in the town of Beita, north of the occupied West Bank, injuring several of them due to the Israeli army firing tear gas canisters during its incursion into the area.
The Palestinian news agency reported that a number of settlers attacked a group of citizens while they were harvesting olives in the Qamas Mountain area in Beita, south of Nablus.
It added that occupation soldiers stormed the area and fired sound bombs and gas canisters at the citizens, resulting in several of them suffering from tear gas inhalation.
Attacks by settlers usually increase at this time of year, coinciding with the start of the olive harvest season, which is a key crop that many farmers depend on for their livelihoods.
Palestinians say that the Israeli army and settlers are intensifying their crimes in the West Bank by assaulting citizens, destroying their properties, and displacing them, in service of expanding settlement construction.
Alongside the genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have killed at least 1,050 Palestinians and injured about 10,300, in addition to arresting more than 20,000, including 400 children.
The Israeli army and settlers are intensifying their crimes in the West Bank.
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West Bank.. Settlers attack Palestinian olive pickers south of Nablus