An-Najah News - According to local sources, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting their olive crops and escalated their fierce attacks as Palestinian farmers began this year’s olive harvest n the town of Beit Furik near Nablus 

A group of settlers from the illegal colonial settlement of Itamar attacked the Palestinian farmers as they were harvesting their olive crops and prevented them from proceeding with the harvest according to Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank

The olive harvest is one of the most important seasons for thousands of Palestinian households whose income depends heavily on the success of this season.

An-Najah News - Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers advanced several dozens of meters to Gaza’s border to the east of al-Bureij refugee camp and proceeded to raze border line farmlands and erect earth mounds while opening fire.

Fourteen years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza.

Two million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years.

Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege.

all this has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.

Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters, or airspace.