Israeli Soldiers and settlers stand in an area where Palestinians are blocked from harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Sa’ir, near Hebron. AP
The UN humanitarian office has said that in October, it documented the highest monthly number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank since the office began keeping track in 2006.
There were over 260 attacks, or an average of eight incidents per day, the office reported.
Palestinian paramedics said that several journalists, volunteers and farmers were among those injured in the attack on the central town of Beita.
A video of the aftermath circulating in Palestinian media shows a man holding a camera, blood trickling down his face and chest.
It then showed the inside of a hospital, where a man in a journalist's vest marked “press” and others with bandages on their heads were lying on the beds.
With settler violence surging in the territory, volunteers and activists have flocked to this year's olive harvest to help Palestinian farmers safely reach and return from their fields.
A Palestinian journalist exits an ambulance upon arriving at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus after reportedly being injured by Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in the Palestinian village of Baita, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. AFP
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