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Several Palestinians sustained injuries and bruises on Tuesday following an assault by terrorist settlers disguised in Israeli occupation army uniforms against a family in the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus.
The Palestinian News Agency reported that the settlers, disguised in occupation army uniforms, knocked on the door of a Palestinian home in Qaryut village before severely beating the homeowner and his family members, resulting in injuries and bruises.
The injured were transported to the hospital to receive treatment.
Various areas of the West Bank are witnessing an escalation in settler attacks against Palestinians and their property, including physical assault and attacks on Palestinian homes and communities, amid a widening scope of violence coinciding with the olive harvest season.
Terrorist settlers attacked the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, where they attempted to prevent Palestinians from reaching their lands behind the apartheid wall to harvest olives.
Various areas of the West Bank are experiencing attacks coinciding with the start of the olive harvest season, during which farmers in several regions are subjected to settler violence, including theft of produce, cutting down and burning trees, and seizing crops to deprive farmers of access to their lands and their agricultural season.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers carried out 647 attacks last month, concentrated in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate with 506 attacks, followed by Nablus governorate with 342 attacks, then Hebron with 272 attacks, Jenin with 202 attacks, Bethlehem with 187 attacks, Tulkarm with 152 attacks, and Jerusalem with 149 attacks.
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