340 Israeli assaults on olive pickers in the West Bank during the month.

The head of the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Muayad Shaaban, stated that the Israeli occupation army and settlers have carried out 340 attacks against olive pickers in the occupied West Bank since October of last year until today.

Shaaban mentioned in a statement from the commission that the commission's teams monitored 62 attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation army and 278 attacks carried out by settlers in various areas of the West Bank.

According to the statement, the violations varied, including violent physical assaults, arrest campaigns, movement restrictions, access denial, intimidation and harassment in all its forms, and direct gunfire.

Regarding their geographical distribution, the statement clarified that Ramallah Governorate witnessed 107 attacks, Nablus 94 attacks, while Hebron experienced 38 attacks.

There were also 92 cases of movement restrictions and intimidation of olive pickers recorded, in addition to 59 cases of beating and assault against farmers.

The statement pointed out that the attacks on olive-planted lands since the beginning of the current season have led to the destruction of a total of 1,200 trees, considering the current olive season to be "the hardest and most dangerous in recent decades."

This is due to the Israeli insistence on imposing closed military zones on agricultural lands.

The olive season is one of the most important agricultural seasons in Palestine, as thousands of families rely on it as a primary source of income and livelihood.

According to a report issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, the current season is one of the weakest in recent decades, with field estimates indicating that production does not exceed 15% of the normal rate.

According to ministry data, Palestine's olive oil production in 2024 reached about 27,300 tons.

Settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have significantly increased with the onset of the olive season, which begins in the second third of October each year, and constitutes a primary source of livelihood for thousands of Palestinian families.

According to data from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the Israeli occupation army and settlers carried out 766 attacks against Palestinians, their properties, and their sources of livelihood in the West Bank during last October.

These attacks fall within a broad wave of Israeli escalation in the West Bank by the army and settlers, which has resulted in the martyrdom of at least 1,066 Palestinians and the injury of about 10,000 others over the past two years, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,000 people, including 1,600 children.