Israeli aggression on West Bank escalates, settlers attack farmers

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
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Israeli settlers’ attacks on olive harvesters across the West Bank continue to intensify, with assaults this time focused on Nablus and Ramallah.

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Israeli troops cover settlers as they vandalize olive tree fields in Beita, Nablus, occupied Palestine, October 10. 2025 (Social media)

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers on Saturday while they were harvesting olives in various areas of Nablus and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Such attacks have become near-daily this season, coinciding with an aggressive IOF campaign across the West Bank.

⚡️⭕️ West Bank: Foreign inbred occupation settlers attack olive harvesters under the protection of the occupation army in several locations in the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus. https://t.co/cIlbtJXZpa pic.twitter.com/DJ5MtWY4pG
— Middle East Observer (@ME_Observer_) October 11, 2025

WAFA News Agency reported that the settlers fired live ammunition and assaulted the farmers, attempting to prevent them from reaching their lands, under the protection of occupation forces, which continue to restrict the Palestinians’ movement during the olive season.

Illegal Israeli settlers have cut down more than 100 Palestinian olive trees in the villages of Al Mughayyir and Abu Falah near Ramallah in Palestine's occupied West Bank. Some trees were over 60 years of age pic.twitter.com/OPq1xQAtSF
— TRT World (@trtworld) October 7, 2025

Palestinian youth injured, six detained during raids in al-Khalil

One Palestinian youth was injured by Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Saturday, and six others, including two women, were detained from various areas of the al-Khalil Governorate in the West Bank.

In detail, WAFA reported, citing local and security sources, that the youth was moderately injured in the thigh by live Israeli gunfire near his home in the village of Tabqa in the town of Dura, southwest of al-Khalil. The occupation forces prevented ambulances from reaching him, leaving him bleeding for approximately an hour.

Breaking | A Palestinian was shot by Israeli occupation forces in Dura, south of Hebron in the West Bank, and the Israeli forces prevent medical teams from reaching him. pic.twitter.com/eTKj3OvoSm
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 11, 2025

Eventually, the Palestinian Red Crescent crews managed to transport him to Dura Governmental Hospital for treatment.

IOF detain six Palestinians, including two women

Also in Dura, Israeli occupation forces detained Ahmad Muhammad Hamdan after raiding and ransacking his family's home.

Israeli occupation forces continued their raids in the al-Khalil Governorate, storming the town of Bani Na'im in the east and detaining Mustafa Issam Manasra, Hazem Abdullah Manasra, and Alaa Muhammad Gharib (a woman), after searching their homes, ransacking their contents, and stealing sums of money.

اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال صباح اليوم المصورة إسراء اشرف خمايسة من بلدة تفوح بمدينة الخليل.

كما اعتقلت الشاب عبد العزيز خمايسة شقيق الشهـ.ـيد إسلام خمايسة من بلدة اليامون غرب جنين.

بالإضافة للسيدة آلاء محمد غريب من بني نعيم في الخليل. pic.twitter.com/XxQrNGELbM
— ق.ض 𓂆 (@qadeyah_) October 11, 2025

They also detained Anis Abdul-Wadud Ghaith from the city of al-Khalil and Israa Khamayseh from the town of Taffuh, to the west, after raiding their homes and vandalizing their contents.

As part of their continued aggression, Israeli occupation forces set up several military checkpoints at the entrances to al-Khalil and its towns and camps, closing main and side roads with iron gates, concrete blocks, and earth mounds, impeding Palestinian movement.

بينهم سيدتان.. قوات الاحتلال تعتقل عدد من الفلسطينيين من مدينة الخليل وقراها عرف منهم:

⦁ أحمد محمد حمدان – دورا
⦁ مصطفى عصام مناصرة – بني نعيم
⦁ حازم عبد الله عيسى مناصرة – بني نعيم
⦁ السيدة آلاء محمد غريب – بني نعيم
⦁ إسراء أشرف خمايسة – تفوح
⦁ أنيس عبد الودود غيث pic.twitter.com/YEJEMOa41h
— شبكة قدس | الأسرى (@asranews) October 11, 2025

Child assaulted, detained by IOF near Beit Lahm

The IOF detained a 17-year-old Palestinian boy on Saturday after assaulting him in the village of al-Dawha, west of Beit Lahm, according to local security sources.

The sources told WAFA that soldiers chased Ramez Ismail al-Maghribi, a resident of the nearby Dheisheh refugee camp, while he was riding his bicycle in the village. After catching him, they beat him severely before detaining him.

Israeli troops had earlier stormed several neighborhoods in the town and were seen patrolling throughout the area.

IOF kill 25-year-old Palestinian during raid on Jenin

Just yesterday, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a 25-year-old Palestinian youth and injured a teenager on Friday night during a military raid on the city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

The PRCS reported that its medical crews transferred the body of the slain youth after he was shot in the abdomen and neck by live Israeli fire.

Local sources said that an Israeli military unit raided multiple neighborhoods in Jenin, opened fire on residents, and killed the Palestinian youth, whom the Ministry of Health later identified as Mohammad Adnan Salameh, aged 25.

During the same raid, a 15-year-old child sustained injuries from live bullet shrapnel in the lower extremities near the Cinema Roundabout. He was evacuated to the hospital by Red Crescent crews.