Settlers burn three cars and spray slogans in Umm Safa overnight
The head of the Umm Safa village council said settlers entered the western neighbourhood after midnight, set three vehicles alight and daubed racist slogans on walls.
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The olive harvest
October is picking season across the West Bank, and this year it opened, in the UN’s word, ominously: attacks on pickers, trees and the roads to the groves.
A family harvesting olives in the Jenin area, 2015. Photo: TrickyH, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Settlers attack olive pickers in Beit Kahil as harvest incidents pass 480
A Palestinian commission says it has recorded 482 attacks on the olive harvest in nine West Bank governorates since picking began this month.
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UN warns of 'ominous start' to the West Bank olive harvest
OCHA counted at least 160 harvest-related settler attacks in the first two weeks of October, while movement restrictions keep thousands of farmers from their trees.