Documentation of Israel’s aggression against farmers and the agricultural sector from October 10-16, 2025
The agricultural sector in the occupied West Bank witnessed an escalation in Israeli violations during the olive harvest season. Occupation forces attacked farmers who tried to access their lands and continued to steal, bulldoze, and confiscate farmers’ lands.
Settler militias also escalated their brutal, violent, and organized attacks on farmers, attacking them while they were harvesting, assaulting them, damaging their vehicles and equipment, and stealing their olives, all under the protection and with the support of the occupation army.
Between 7 and 13 October, OCHA documented 71 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians that resulted in casualties, property damage, or both. Half of them (36 attacks) were related to the ongoing olive harvest season, which officially began on 9 October, affecting Palestinians in 27 villages. Settlers attacked farmers and volunteers, stole crops and harvesting equipment, and vandalised olive trees, resulting in casualties, property damage, or both. In early October, OCHA already warned, echoing Palestinians words, that during the 2025 olive harvest season, over 60 communities mainly in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, and Salfit governorates remain at high risk of settler attacks and restrictions while trying to access their agricultural land.
Since October 7, 2023, settler militias with the support of the occupation army have uprooted more than 48,728 trees – including 37,237 olive trees. Since the olive harvest started, 3,472 olive trees were destroyed in the governorates of Ramallah, Hebron, Tubas, Bethlehem, and Salfit, in addition to the confiscation of 70 dunams in the village of Raba, east of Jenin, and 25 dunams in Jayyous, Qalqilya.
These violations are part of a systematic policy targeting Palestinian land and farmers. The aim of this policy is to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their land.
On October 10, Israel’s settler militias and occupation army:
- Nablus – Beita: Injured 36 farmers and burned 10 vehicles.
- Nablus – Duma: Stole 400 kg of olives and vandalized farmers’ cars.
- Nablus – Aqraba and Jurish: Expelled farmers and prohibited them from harvesting olives.
- Ramallah – Kafr Ni’ma and Rantis: Attacked farmers.
- Salfit – Wadi Al-Matwi: Bulldozed retaining walls and destroyed grape arbors and iron structures.
- Hebron – Yatta: Burned fertilizers, stole agricultural equipment, and allowed livestock to graze on and destroy crops.
On October 11, Israel’s settler militias and occupation army:
- Nablus – Aqraba and Jurish: Expelled farmers and stole approximately 250 kg of olives.
- Bethlehem – Al-Walaja: Prohibited farmers from accessing 500 dunams of their agricultural land.
On October 12, Israel’s settler militias and occupation army:
- Hebron – Tarqumiya: Detained dozens of farmers and prohibited them from entering their lands.
- Ramallah – Turmus Ayya: Stole 150 kg of olives.
- Ramallah – Burqa and Taybeh: Destroyed approximately 600 olive trees.
- Tubas – Al-Hadidiya: Grazed their sheep on the lands of 15 farmers, causing damage to trees.
- Tubas – Bardala: Destroyed 200 olive trees.
On October 13, Israel’s settler militias and occupation army:
- Hebron – Idhna: Expelled farmers and activists during an event for the Zaytoun2025 campaign.
- Hebron – Khirbet Umm al-Khair (Yatta): Confiscated a tent for storing harvesting tools.
- Ramallah – Turmus Ayya, al-Mughayyir, Sinjil, and Deir Jarir: Destroyed hundreds of trees and stole olives.
- Ramallah – Sahl Sa’i’: Cut down 150 olive trees between al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah.
On October 14, Israel’s settler militias and occupation army:
- Ramallah – Silwad: Closed off a main agricultural road with a barrier.
- Bethlehem – Beit Fajjar: Burned a farmer’s vehicle.
- Bethlehem – Khallet al-Louza: Confiscated an irrigation network, cut water pipes, and stole a sprinkler pump.
On October 15, Israel’s settler militias and occupation army:
- Ramallah – al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya: Stole olive crops from farmers’ lands.
- Bethlehem – Nahalin: Prohibited dozens of farmers from accessing their lands.
- Hebron – Yatta, As Samou’, and Dura: Blocked access to farmlands and vandalized olive trees on hundreds of dunams.
- Hebron – Khirbet Quwawis: Grazed sheep (200 heads) on olive trees and destroyed trees.
On October 16, Israel’s settler militias and occupation army:
- Nablus – Beita and Huwara: Injured 35 farmers and burned 16 vehicles.
- Nablus – Qaryut: Burned dozens of olive trees.
- Qalqilya – Kufr Qaddum: Destroyed agricultural equipment and two vehicles.
- Qalqilya – Jit: Set on fire dozens of olives.
- Bethlehem – Ar-Rashaydeh: Attacked a farmer and his wife and prohibited them from remaining on their land.
- Jenin – Kufr Ra’i: Attacked an olive harvest event and prohibited farmers from harvesting.