Child, four women among Palestinians injured in West Bank pogroms

What the report says

Several Palestinians were injured and some detained in a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to Al Jazeera’s reporting based on Palestinian sources and witness accounts. The incidents took place in multiple villages and towns, including Ma’in in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron, Deir Ammar and Kafr Malek near Ramallah, Tuqu near Bethlehem, and areas around Nablus and Salfit.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said four women and a child were among six people hurt when Israeli settlers attacked residents in Ma’in. Al Jazeera also reported that Israeli forces fired on farmers in Deir Ammar as they were harvesting olives, while settlers shot and injured two Palestinians in the same area. In Kafr Malek, a mayor told Al Jazeera that settlers raided a farm at dawn and killed about 20 sheep, and that tear gas used by Israeli forces sparked a house fire. Other reported incidents included damage to vehicles, destruction of olive trees, and the blocking of harvesters from reaching farmland.

The article said the violence is occurring during the olive harvest, an important season for Palestinian farmers, and framed it as part of a wider pattern of attacks since the start of the month. It also linked the unrest to a recent religious ruling by Rabbi Dov Lior, described by Al Jazeera as a prominent figure associated with far-right Israeli politics, who said harvesting olives in Palestinian areas is permitted. That context, according to the report, has raised concern about growing settler activity and the lack of effective intervention to stop it.