Armed settlers attacked olive pickers west of Salfit this Saturday morning.

Farmer Youssef Al-Deek said that the settlers of the pastoral colonial outpost established on the citizens’ lands in Kafr Al-Deek attacked the olive pickers in the “Khalat Al-Haramiya” area west of the town, shouting, cursing and threatening them, and tried to force them to leave their lands and prevent them from picking the olives.

Al-Deek pointed out that during the past week, the settlers stole 30 bags of olives and agricultural equipment, in addition to grazing their livestock among the trees and provoking the farmers, in an attempt to prevent citizens from reaching their lands and taking care of them.

It is noteworthy that agricultural lands in the Salfit Governorate are exposed to daily attacks by settlers and occupation forces, which escalated during the olive season in an attempt to force citizens to leave them in favor of the settlements.

During the annual olive harvest season, Palestinian lands are subjected to repeated attacks by settlers and the occupation army, and farmers constantly face obstacles and arbitrary practices that prevent them from accessing their lands, which leads to huge material losses and increases their daily suffering under the burden of the occupation.

It is expected that farmers will not be able to reach 80,000 dunums of land planted with olives, due to the terror of the settlers under the protection of the occupation army, which will lead to the loss of about 15% of this year’s season’s crop.