Child, four women among Palestinians injured in West Bank pogroms

Attacks across occupied West Bank follow a religious edict by a prominent far-right rabbi permitting the seizure of Palestinian olives.

Firefighters douse a burning car with water after Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinians harvesting olives near Turmus Aya in the occupied West Bank on October 16, 2026 [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

Several Palestinians have been injured by Israeli settlers, and farmers have been arrested by Israeli forces during Israeli pogroms across the occupied West Bank.

Four women and a child were among six people injured on Saturday when Israeli settlers attacked residents in Ma’in village in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

In the town of Deir Ammar, west of Ramallah, Israeli forces opened fire on farmers picking olives, forcing them to leave their land, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

In the same area, Israeli settlers shot and injured two Palestinians. In the village of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, Israeli forces fired on a Palestinian civilian vehicle.

In the village of Kafr Malek, northeast of Ramallah, settlers raided a farm at dawn and killed about 20 sheep, Mayor Najeh Rustum told Al Jazeera.

He added that Israeli forces had raided the village the previous night as well, firing tear gas canisters that ignited a fire in a house and caused material damage.

Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said settlers destroyed olive trees across the Beit Furik plain, east of Nablus, in the northern West Bank while Israeli forces arrested landowners and olive pickers.

In the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah, she said, settlers under army protection fired live ammunition at farmers in the al-Hariq area to prevent them from completing the harvest and forced them off their land. Settlers also smashed the vehicle of international activist Jonathan Budlak in the village and threw stones at a farmer’s vehicle.

A settler throws a stone towards Palestinians in Abu Falah near Ramallah on October 16, 2026, during attacks carried out as Palestinians try to harvest olives [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

In the village of Burqa near Ramallah, Israeli forces and settlers prevented farmers from picking olives, Odeh said, adding that settlers attacked farmers in the Wadi al-Sha’er area, southeast of Salfit.

“What we see, whether it’s in Beit Furik, Kafr Malek, Deir Jarir or elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, is part of a campaign,” Odeh said.

She said settlers have become increasingly emboldened, publicly advertising attack campaigns on social media platforms.

“There have been 300 documented attacks since the beginning of October, and that has had a devastating impact on a very important season for Palestinian farmers,” she said, adding that danger comes from soldiers and settlers alike as military forces routinely intervene to protect settlers and attack Palestinians defending their land.

Prominent rabbi justifies attacks

The attacks follow a religious edict issued by Rabbi Dov Lior, a prominent rabbi for National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power party and a leading authority among the Hilltop Youth , which is a religious Zionist group devoted to seizing Palestinian land in the West Bank.

In the edict, Lior stated that harvesting olives in the Holy Land is entirely permitted and carries an added virtue, given security dangers.

He wrote that Jews are permitted to harvest olives even in areas far from Jewish communities to publicly display ownership of the land and fulfil God’s commandment of conquering it. He claimed the land belongs to the Jewish people and Palestinians did not buy or rent it.

Odeh said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu downplays pogroms and no concrete action is taken to stop them.

“It is a matter of debate among politicians, but no one is stopping these settlers, whose names, locations and homes are known,” she said, adding that politicians permit the violence to continue because “it is politically expedient” and secures votes before elections on October 27.

在被占领的西岸地区，袭击事件频发，起因是一位著名的极右翼拉比颁布了一项宗教法令，允许没收巴勒斯坦橄榄。

2026年10月16日，在被占领的约旦河西岸图尔穆斯阿亚附近，以色列定居者袭击了一群正在采摘橄榄的巴勒斯坦人，消防员用水扑灭了一辆燃烧的汽车。[Ammar Awad/路透社]

在以色列占领的约旦河西岸地区，以色列军队对巴勒斯坦人进行种族清洗，造成多名巴勒斯坦人受伤，一些农民被以色列定居者逮捕。

据巴勒斯坦红新月会（PRCS）称，周六，以色列定居者袭击了希伯伦以南马萨费尔亚塔地区迈因村的居民，造成六人受伤，其中包括四名妇女和一名儿童。

据巴勒斯坦通讯社瓦法社报道，在拉马拉以西的代尔阿马尔镇，以色列军队向正在采摘橄榄的农民开火，迫使他们离开自己的土地。

在同一地区，以色列定居者开枪打伤了两名巴勒斯坦人。在伯利恒东南部的图库村，以色列军队向一辆巴勒斯坦平民车辆开火。

据半岛电视台报道，拉马拉东北部的卡夫尔·马利克村，黎明时分，定居者袭击了一个农场，杀死了大约 20 只羊。村长纳杰·鲁斯图姆告诉半岛电视台。

他还补充说，以色列军队前一天晚上也袭击了该村庄，发射了催泪瓦斯罐，导致一所房屋起火，造成财产损失。

半岛电视台记者努尔·奥德从拉马拉报道称，定居者在约旦河西岸北部纳布卢斯以东的贝特富里克平原上摧毁了橄榄树，而以色列军队逮捕了土地所有者和橄榄采摘者。

她说，在拉马拉以东的代尔贾里尔村，一些受军队保护的定居者在哈里克地区向农民开枪，阻止他们完成收割，并将他们赶出土地。这些定居者还在村里砸毁了国际活动家乔纳森·布德拉克的车辆，并向一名农民的车辆投掷石块。

2026年10月16日，在拉马拉附近的阿布法拉赫，一名定居者向巴勒斯坦人投掷石块，当时巴勒斯坦人正在采摘橄榄。[Ammar Awad/路透社]

奥德说，在拉马拉附近的布尔卡村，以色列军队和定居者阻止农民采摘橄榄；他还补充说，定居者袭击了萨尔菲特东南部的瓦迪沙尔地区的农民。

奥德说：“无论是在贝特富里克、卡夫尔马利克、代尔贾里尔还是在被占领的西岸其他地方，我们所看到的都是一场运动的一部分。”

她说，定居者变得越来越大胆，在社交媒体平台上公开宣传攻击活动。

“自 10 月初以来，已有 300 起有记录的袭击事件发生，这对巴勒斯坦农民非常重要的耕作季节造成了毁灭性的影响，”她说道，并补充说，危险既来自士兵也来自定居者，因为军队经常干预以保护定居者，并攻击保卫自己土地的巴勒斯坦人。

知名拉比为袭击事件辩护

此次袭击源于拉比多夫·利奥尔发布的一项宗教法令。利奥尔是国家安全部长伊塔马尔·本·格维尔领导的犹太力量党的一位著名拉比，也是山顶青年组织（一个致力于夺取西岸巴勒斯坦土地的宗教犹太复国主义团体）的一位重要人物。

在法令中，利奥尔表示，在圣地采摘橄榄是完全允许的，而且考虑到安全隐患，采摘橄榄还有额外的益处。

他写道，犹太人被允许在远离犹太社区的地区采摘橄榄，以此公开展示他们对土地的所有权，并履行上帝征服土地的诫命。他声称这片土地属于犹太人，巴勒斯坦人既没有购买也没有租赁它。

奥德表示，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡淡化了种族屠杀事件，并且没有采取任何具体行动来制止这些事件。

“这是政客们争论不休的问题，但没有人阻止这些定居者，他们的姓名、地点和住所都是众所周知的，”她说道，并补充说，政客们允许暴力继续下去，因为“这在政治上是权宜之计”，可以在10月27日的选举前确保选票。