Footage published by Arabic media outlets on Friday appeared to show Israeli settlers tearing down olive trees in the South Hebron Hills, as the Palestinian Authority’s news agency reported further settler attacks on Palestinian olive pickers across the West Bank amid the harvest season there.
Citing local activist Osama Makhamra, WAFA said fifteen ancient olive trees were chopped down by settlers, who targeted the village of Susya, which is part of the Masafer Yatta enclave south of Hebron.
The report also said Israeli troops entered several homes in the village and confiscated footage from security cameras.
The IDF did not immediately comment on the report. Settlers also reportedly chopped down olive trees in the same village on Thursday night and stormed into several homes in the village on Wednesday, injuring a 75-year-old Palestinian man.
The military also did not comment on separate WAFA reports Friday that troops gave cover to settlers assaulting Palestinian olive pickers in Sinjil, north of Ramallah, and opened fire on Palestinians protesting near Tulkarem and commuting via the Atara checkpoint north of Ramallah.
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Meanwhile, on Friday, according to WAFA, settlers also destroyed sheep feed in Khirbet al-Tawil and set fire to Palestinian farmland, damaging several olive trees, in Arraba, south of Jenin.
Israeli settler terrorists vandalized dozens of Palestinian olive trees near the village of Susya in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Not humans, animals, or even trees are spared from their terrorism. pic.twitter.com/64ObMNtqc9
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) November 7, 2025
There have been no reports of people arrested as a result of the attacks on Friday. Settler violence is rarely prosecuted.
The Palestinian olive picking season, which began in early October, has seen a string of attacks by settlers and soldiers on olive pickers, who sometimes include Israeli, Jewish and other volunteers from abroad.
The attacks come amid soaring levels of settler violence since the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza.
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