An-Najah News - According to a local source three Palestinians were today injured after Israeli settlers assaulted olive harvesters in the groves of Huwara town near Nablus.

Number of settlers attacked Palestinian farmers as they were picking their olive trees, inflicting injuries and bruises on three of them said Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank.

He added that this was the third settler attack against Palestinian olive harvesters in the last 24 hours in Nablus.

The settlers came from Yitzhar, a colonial settlement notorious for its hardcore religious community.

Olive trees planted across 45% of the West Bank’s agricultural land, with a total number 12 million trees.
The olive harvest constitutes one of the biggest sources of economic sustainability for thousands of Palestinian families.

According to UN OCHA, the olive oil industry supports the livelihoods of more than 100,000 families and accounts for a quarter of the gross agricultural income of the occupied territories.