Attacks on the Olive Harvest Season in West Bank Despite Ceasefire: OIC

Two years of destructiom, killing, displacement and starvation.

Jeddah, 15-10-2025- The Israeli occupation forces have killed 78 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since the announcement of the ceasefire agreement, during the period October 7-13, 2025, and injured another 354 during the same period, while continuing to bomb various areas of Gaza.

The OIC Media Observatory on Israeli Crimes against Palestinians documented the recovery of 315 bodies over the past seven days, during which 396 people were martyred and 422 injured across various Palestinian areas. This brings the total number of Palestinians martyred during the period from October 7, 2023, to October 11, 2025, up to 68,733, with 179,067 injured.

On Thursday and Friday of the previous week, the occupation forces bombarded southern Gaza and Khan Younis, with continued aerial and artillery bombing of different areas in the Strip.

Meanwhile, the United Nations stated that the occupation forces have destroyed 80% of the buildings in the Gaza Strip over the past two years, with 42,000 Palestinians having suffered serious, life-altering injuries.

In the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, Al-Aqsa Mosque has faced daily incursions, including two raids by the extremist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, along with Knesset members Amit Halevi and Tzvi Sukkot, who were accompanied by groups of extremist settlers.

The occupation forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Al-Khalil to Palestinians, preventing them from praying there for two days under the pretext of allowing settlers to perform "Talmudic" rituals and celebrate Jewish religious holidays. Meanwhile, settlers stormed a mosque in Khirbet Tana, near Nablus.

The West Bank suffered 301 military raids by the occupation forces, during which 134 Palestinians were arrested, including 6 children. The occupation forces also injured 13 children, and a settler ran over two children and two adults with her vehicle, causing them injuries.  

The occupation forces confiscated a tractor in Al-Khalil, 21,200 shekels, and gold jewelry from Palestinians in various West Bank areas, and 13 heads of cattle in the village of Sanur in Jenin. They also demolished a house in Al-Quds, occupied another, and forced shop-owners in Al-Khalil to close their stores to make way for settlers’ religious celebrations.

Settlers committed 128 attacks, including raids on Al-Sumud School and another school in the Ibziq area of Tubas, theft of a water tank from a Bedouin community in the village of Mikhmas (Al-Quds), and theft of property from a Palestinian family in Kafr Malik village.

Settlers also stole 4 sheep near Ibziq, set fire to 4 vehicles in Nablus, stole two beehives, and sabotaged a water pump in the northern Jordan Valley (Tubas). They grazed their livestock in the villages of Al-Mughayyir and Deir Jarir (Ramallah) and Beit Furik (Nablus), cut branches of trees in Kafr Malik and Khirbet Abu Falah (Ramallah), cut palm trees in the Al-Farisiyah area (Tubas), and carried out bulldozing and digging operations in agricultural lands in Al-Mughayyir.

The olive harvest season was not spared from the attacks of the occupation forces. Twenty-four villages were subjected to 32 attacks during which settlers prevented farmers from harvesting their olives.  Despite a sharp drop in olive yields this year, settlers stole olive crops, broke tree branches, burned and uprooted trees, assaulted farmers, and prevented them from harvesting. Settlers carried out seven raids on villages in Nablus, Tulkarm, and Ramallah, during which they stole olive crops. They also set fire to olive trees in the villages of Surif and Al-Zuwaidin, and cut down or uprooted trees in four villages across Al-Khalil, Nablus, and Ramallah. The total number of attacks on the olive harvest season reached 45, affecting dozens of villages.

During the same period (October 7–13, 2025), there were four settlement-related activities, including settlers erecting a tent in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Al-Quds, bulldozing land in Deir Ammar village, and blocking dirt roads. Settlers also entered Al-Mazra'a al-Gharbiya, set up a tent, raised Israeli flags, and began building a "synagogue" in an outpost in the town of Tuqu’ (Bethlehem).

In total, 1,681 Israeli crimes were committed by Israeli forces and settlers in the past seven days across Palestinian areas. From October 7, 2023, to October 13, 2025,  the total number of documented Israeli crimes reached 340,710. – OIC News