![Palestinian farmers and activists supporting them are seen harvesting olives in Ramallah, West Bank on October 29, 2025. With the olive harvest season starting in October on their West Bank lands, farmers in the region are frequently subject to attacks by Israeli settlers. [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243465074.jpg)
Illegal Israeli settlers carried out coordinated attacks across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, uprooting hundreds of olive trees, assaulting Palestinian civilians and shepherds, and storming villages under the protection of the Israeli army, Palestinian sources said, Anadolu reports. In the northern Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate, illegal settlers uprooted around 300 olive trees in the town of Turmus Ayya. Local sources told Anadolu that the attack targeted agricultural land and the home of a Palestinian family in the town’s plain area, which has been repeatedly subjected to settler assaults. In northeastern Ramallah, groups of illegal settlers stormed the village of al-Mughayyir, where they attacked the southern part of the village and assaulted residents while they were grazing […]
