Several Palestinians have been injured by Israeli settlers, and farmers have been arrested by Israeli forces during Israeli pogroms in the occupied West Bank. Four women and a child were among six people injured on Saturday when Israeli settlers attacked residents in the village of Ma’in in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). In the town of Deir Ammar, west of Ramallah, Israeli forces opened fire on farmers picking olives, forcing them to abandon their land, according to the Palestinian Wafa News Agency. In the same area, Israeli settlers shot and wounded two Palestinians. In the village of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, Israeli forces fired at a Palestinian civilian vehicle. ‘Part of the campaign’ In the village of Kafr Malek, northeast of Ramallah, settlers raided a farm at dawn and killed about 20 sheep, Mayor Najeh Rustum told Al Jazeera. He added that Israeli forces had also attacked the village the previous night, firing tear gas canisters that started a house fire and caused property damage. Reporting from Ramallah, he said settlers destroyed olive trees on the Beit Furik plain, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, while Israeli forces arrested landowners and olive pickers. In the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, he said, settlers under army protection fired live ammunition at farmers in the al-Hariq area to prevent them from completing the harvest and forced them to abandon their lands. Settlers also vandalized international activist Jonathan Budlak’s vehicle in the village and threw stones at a farmer’s vehicle. A settler throws a stone towards Palestinians in Abu Falah, near Ramallah, on October 16, 2026, during attacks carried out while Palestinians were trying to harvest olives. [Ammar Awad/Reuters]In the village of Burqa, near Ramallah, Israeli forces and settlers prevented farmers from picking olives, Odeh said, adding that settlers attacked farmers in the Wadi al-Sha’er area, southeast of Salfit. “What we see, whether in Beit Furik, Kafr Malek, Deir Jarir or elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, is part of a campaign,” Odeh said. He said settlers have become increasingly emboldened and publicly announce attack campaigns on social media platforms. “There have been 300 documented attacks since the beginning of October, and that has had a devastating impact on a very important season for Palestinian farmers,” he said, adding that the danger comes from both soldiers and settlers, as military forces routinely intervene to protect settlers and attack Palestinians defending their land. Youth, which is a Zionist religious group dedicated to seizing Palestinian land in the West Bank. In the edict, Lior stated that harvesting olives in the Holy Land is completely permitted and carries an additional virtue, given the safety hazards. He wrote that Jews are allowed to harvest olives even in areas far from Jewish communities to publicly display ownership of the land and fulfill God’s command to conquer it. He claimed that the land belongs to the Jewish people and that the Palestinians did not buy or rent it. Odeh said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu downplays the pogroms and no concrete steps are being taken to stop them. “It is a matter of debate among politicians, but no one is stopping these settlers, whose names, locations and homes are known,” he said, adding that politicians allow the violence to continue because “it is politically convenient” and ensures votes before the October 27 elections.
