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Olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank
Instead of joy and harmony, illegal Israeli settlers have brought a season of violence to the occupied West Bank
Olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank
Graphic artist: Busra Ozturk, Producer: Elif Eren / TRT World
October 21, 2025

The olive harvest season began on October 9, yet within the first week alone (October 7–13), 36 settler attacks struck 27 Palestinian villages, disrupting a tradition as old as the land itself.

In just one week:

1 Palestinian shot dead, 99 injured

1,430+ Palestinian-owned trees and saplings (mostly olive) destroyed

40 vehicles vandalised

Since October 7, 2023;

37,237 olive trees destroyed

7,154 Palestinians and their properties attacked by Israeli settlers and soldiers