9 documented attacks on Palestinian farmers in one week: Settlers expand the circle of vandalism and intimidation.

The Government Communication Center, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, issued a report documenting violations and attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation and settlers against Palestinian farmers and their property during the period from June 12 to 19, 2025.

The Government Communication Center report indicates that the violations varied between physical assaults and property damage, and were concentrated in the governorates of Bethlehem, Ramallah, Salfit, and Qalqilya, where nine assaults were recorded in just one week.


Bethlehem: A farmer's vehicle was vandalized while he was working.

In Bethlehem Governorate, a number of settlers punctured the tires of a farmer's vehicle and smashed its windows while he was on his agricultural land in the Wadi al-Ghuwait area, south of the town of al-Khader.

Ramallah: A farm was burned, property was vandalized, and systematic intimidation occurred.

Ramallah Governorate witnessed four separate attacks:
• Settlers stormed a farm near the town of Beitunia in the Jaryut area and set it on fire.
• They also stormed a sheep farm in the Marj Sa’i plain, between the villages of Al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah, vandalized the fence and farm property, and wrote racist slogans on the walls.
• In another attack on the same farm, settlers set fire to its contents.
• Settlers also destroyed agricultural crops in the town of Sinjil, uprooting 300 tomato and zucchini crops, and half a dunum of cucumbers.

Salfit: Irrigation network destroyed and crops damaged

In the Salfit Governorate, agricultural lands in the Matwi area were deliberately destroyed. Settlers destroyed an irrigation network serving more than one dunam of land. They also damaged a similar area of land planted with mallow.

Qalqilya: Threatening with a weapon and robbery

In the town of Kafr Thulth in the Qalqilya Governorate, settlers forced a farmer to leave his home, surrounded by 500 trees, at gunpoint. They also stole a five-cubic-meter water tank from land planted with olive trees in the same area.