Local official Ghassan Daghlas said that settlers escorted by soldiers hurled rocks at homes in the eastern area of Burin and assaulted local residents.

Daghlas said that three young men were injured as they and others tried to fend off the settlers and defend themselves, adding that the zionist soldiers fired a volley of tear gas and stun grenades at the young men to protect the settlers and secure their withdrawal from the area.

The wounded young men were identified as Adel Eid, Khaled Basheer, and Ahmed Basheer.

In a separate incident, the zionist occupation forces on the same day assaulted Palestinian olive farmers in Qaryut village, south of Nablus.

Local activist Bashar al-Qaryuti said that zionist soldiers expelled farmers from their own olive grove in Area B of the West Bank (under the Palestinian Authority’s administrative control) and prevented them from gathering the crop.

Qaryuti added that the soldiers detained the farmers for a while, seized their equipment, wreaked havoc on their olive harvest, and forcibly drove them out of the grove.

The dispossession and violence that mark israel’s policy in the West Bank peak during the olive harvest when Palestinians need to access their land to pick olives off their trees. (ILKHA)