Attacks on Palestinians have intensified during the harvesting season as Israel pushes measures to annex the occupied territory.This olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank has witnessed the highest level of damage and number of illegal Israeli settler attacks since 2020, a United Nations agency has found.The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday said 126 attacks were recorded in 70 towns and villages, and more than 4,000 olive trees and saplings were vandalised.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIsraeli settlers set fire to two Palestinian vehicles in the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, Al Jazeera correspondents said on Friday.In the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, Israeli soldiers took possession of Palestinian farmers’ olives after expelling residents. While olive groves are located under Area B of the West Bank, which, under the terms of the Oslo Accords, does not require Palestinians to coordinate with the Israeli army, the area was declared a closed military zone.A closed military zone order is a measure that enables the army to bar entry into a certain area and is valid for a limited time. Israel has confiscated Palestinian land from its owners by declaring it either “state land” or a “military zone”.For decades, the Israeli military has uprooted olive trees – an important Palestinian cultural symbol – across the occupied West Bank as part of successive Israeli government efforts to seize Palestinian land and forcibly displace residents.The latest …
