Attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season have surged across the occupied West Bank, with monitors recording the fiercest onslaught for this period in years. The figures below come from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Media Observatory and Palestinian documentation, which count only incidents verified by Palestinian sources or eyewitnesses.

182 attacks in one week

Between 13 and 19 October 2026, the OIC observatory documented 182 settler attacks targeting 109 villages during the harvest, part of 240 settler assaults in total, the highest figure for this period compared with 2023, 2024 and 2025. The attacks injured more than 52 Palestinians and foreign solidarity activists. They included 67 incidents of theft of olive harvests and harvesting equipment, 101 assaults on farmers including preventing them from harvesting, and 14 operations uprooting or clearing olive trees, destroying more than 320 trees in Nablus and Bethlehem plus an unrecorded number in Ramallah. Olive groves were also set on fire in Billu and Khirbet Abu Falah in the Ramallah district.

Farmers, diplomats and presses targeted

Reports describe masked settlers armed with clubs attacking European diplomatic delegations and Catholic Church representatives touring Taybeh in the Ramallah governorate, and damaging a vehicle belonging to the Belgian consulate. In Zababdeh, Jenin, settlers broke into an olive press to process olives taken from Palestinian farmers. Around Nablus, a vehicle was set on fire on Mount Rujeib, two farmers were injured in Beita, farmers were pepper-sprayed in Aqraba, and a farmer's phone was stolen near Ramon. The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said it documented 17 further attacks on farmers and their land on one Thursday alone, including arrests, threats at gunpoint and live fire.

Sources: OIC Media Observatory, ABNA, Tasnim News