{"id":646749,"date":"2026-10-15T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646749\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:00:16","slug":"jerusalem-mufti-issues-fatwa-boycotting-goods-from-settlements-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646749\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem mufti issues fatwa boycotting goods from settlements in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fatwa (a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law) against buying olive products from settlers was issued by the grand mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories<\/a> and head of the Supreme Fatwa Council, Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, in response to the rise of settler attacks<\/a> on the olive industry.<\/p>\n

The legal ruling was given on Tuesday in response to escalating settler violence, specifically against olive trees this harvest season, Hussein\u2019s office published.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe basic principle is the prohibition of buying something stolen, because its seller does not own it, nor does he have the right to dispose of it; Buying it encourages theft, cooperates in sin and aggression, and endorses wrongdoing,\u201d Hussein said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sin is magnified if buying stolen goods encourages the enemies to seize the lands of the Palestinians, plunder their resources, and displace their people from them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on this ruling, the Grand Mufti insisted it was forbidden to purchase olive products \u201cstolen from Palestinian trees and sold by settlers<\/a>, due to the great evils involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PalestiniansPalestinians inspect their destroyed home and the olive trees surrounding it following an attack by Jewish settlers in the village of Burin, north of the city of Nablus in the West Bank. September16, 2026. (credit: NASSER ISHTAYEH\/FLASH90)Olives are the backbone of Palestinian agriculture<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong these evils is that it empowers the usurping occupier of our land, which necessitates concerted official and popular efforts to reject the sale and purchase of usurped and stolen goods,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His ruling came weeks after Israeli military<\/a> bulldozers allegedly bulldozed olive groves near Ramallah.<\/p>\n

Though the IDF has not issued a statement on the alleged destruction of the groves, the military has previously cited the need to clear land of olive trees to prevent security threats or ambushes on troops.<\/p>\n

The olive harvest usually begins in the first week of October. Olives are the backbone of Palestinian agriculture, a sector that accounts for around 8% of GDP and more than 60,000 jobs, according to the Palestinian Authority\u2019s Agriculture Ministry.<\/p>\n

It has also reported that more than 45,000 trees, including more than 26,000 olive trees, were cut down or damaged across the West Bank during the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n

The National has also reported that Palestinian farmers have been killed in recent weeks by extremist settlers, including an individual named by the Palestinian Health Ministry as 44-year-old Ali Hassan Yusor al-Bazzari.<\/p>\n

Notably, the official account for the Palestinian Authority deleted an AI-generated video showing multiple Israeli bulldozers destroying an olive grove, and the images have been shared widely across pro-Palestinian social media accounts.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fatwa (a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law) against buying olive products from settlers was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4386,85,46,290898,43,48,77721,77],"class_list":["post-646749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-agriculture","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mufti-of-jerusalem","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-settler-violence","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}