Three Palestinians were today injured after Israeli settlers assaulted olive harvesters in the groves of Huwara town, south of Nablus, according to a local source.

a number of settlers attacked Palestinian farmers as they were picking their olive trees, inflicting injuries and bruises on three of them. this was the third settler attack against Palestinian olive harvesters in the last 24 hours in Nablus.

The settlers came from Yitzhar, a colonial settlement notorious for its hardcore religious community. With more than 12 million olive trees planted across 45% of the West Bank’s agricultural land, the olive harvest constitutes one of the biggest sources of economic sustainability for thousands of Palestinian families.