Israeli forces and settlers have prevented Palestinian farmers from harvesting olives [Getty]
Israeli settlers accompanied by soldiers attacked the occupied West Bank village of al-Mughayer on Sunday, stealing olive harvests, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
Settlers have stepped up attacks against Palestinians and their property amid the crucial olive harvesting season.
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission reported on Sunday that Israelis had carried out 360 attacks over the past month, mainly around Nablus.
The attacks include the uprooting of 1,401 trees, blocking Palestinian farmers from accessing their lands and theft of olive crops.
Settlers have also stolen harvesting equipment and vehicles of Palestinians.
It is expected that around 80,000 dunams of land with olive trees will be unreachable for farmers, threatening around 15 percent of this year’s crop, according to a report by The New Arab‘s Arabic-language sister site, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed earlier this week.
