From: NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.israel,talk.politics.guns,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,uk.current-events.terrorism
Subject: Why are Israeli settlers destroying the Palestinian olive harvest?
Organization: The International Network of Orthodox Mental Health Professionals
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:43:57 -0500
The olive harvest has begun in the occupied West Bank but with it
have come frequent, persistent attacks by Israeli settlers on
Palestinians and their trees. During the first half of 2025, the UN
Rights Office recorded 757 assaults by settlers that resulted in
injury or damage to property. Palestinians have been targeted, olive
groves destroyed, and crops ruined, drawing criticism from UN human
rights chiefs and condemnation globally
On at least 38 occasions,
eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli military aided the attackers,
according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha). In other instances, the Israeli military
has uprooted Palestinian olive trees. In August 2025, the Israeli
military destroyed 10,000 olive trees during a three-day siege of the
West Bank Palestinian village of Al Mughayyir
https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/olive-harvest-israeli-settlers-palestine-west-bank