WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) assaulted on Monday evening a number of Palestinian citizens as they were collecting olives in the villages of Tal and Madama, north of Nablus in the West Bank.
According to local sources, Israeli soldiers stormed Tal and Madama villages, beat four farmers and forced them to leave their olive groves.
As the Palestinian olive season started last October, Israeli forces and settlers escalated their attacks and violations against West Bank farmers and their lands.
In a related context, senior Hamas official Abdul-Rahman Shadeed has called on those having a weapon in the West Bank to support the Palestinian resistance and protect their people against settler attacks.
“The crimes and violations committed by settlers in the West Bank against mosques, homes and olive farmers are a practical translation of the plans made by the occupation government and its ministers such as Ben Gvir and Smotrich,” Shadeed said in a statement on Monday.
He said that the settler attacks against mosques, homes and property belonging to Palestinian citizens in the West Bank entail popular and official action to curb such crimes and foil Israeli intents to displace the local residents, especially from villages and towns near illegal settlements.
“Resisting the occupation is a legitimate right that the Palestinian people must exercise to protect their cause, holy sites, capabilities and land,” he underlined.
