Jerusalem Daily: Israeli settlers burn Palestinian olive groves

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Oct 16, 2026
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Israeli settlers burned Palestinian olive groves
as attacks on the harvest season continued.
Several Palestinian farmers, volunteers and journalists were injured.
Meanwhile, overnight Israeli attacks
on Gaza persist on residential areas.
This is Jerusalem Daily, where we bring you
the latest news from Palestine and Israel.
This morning, Palestinian farmers heading
to their olive groves to harvest their trees
were met with extreme Israeli settler
and army violence.
Settlers surrounded the olive groves from the top
of the hills of Abu Falah and Turmus Aya near Ramallah,
then began to descend and attack Palestinians,
burning their cars and their olive trees.
and the Israeli army doesn't come
to these scenes to stop
the settler attacks they come to protect
the settlers and violently push the Palestinians
and journalists off the scene these attacks come
in the middle of this year's olive harvest season
that many Palestinians rely on to sustain their
businesses throughout the year over in Gaza
a different type of Israeli violence persists
despite a so-called ceasefire.
An Israeli strike on the Sheikh Rabwah neighborhood north of Gaza
City injured a number of Palestinians,
and one man succumbed to his wounds shortly after. The
strike targeted a gathering of people,
and the Israeli army later claimed it had killed two
people it accused of working with armed groups in Gaza.
Stay with us on Al Jazeera for all these
latest developments.
