Violence during the West Bank olive harvest is used to force Palestinians off their land

The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, rooted in competing territorial claims, national identity, and historical grievances dating back to the late 19th century. It encompasses disputes over land, sovereignty, and the status of Jerusalem, and has been marked by multiple wars, peace negotiations, and periods of sustained violence involving Israeli forces, Palestinian factions, and neighboring states.

A landlocked territory between Jordan and Israel, home to around three million Palestinians and governed in part by the Palestinian Authority. Occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War, it remains a central flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, shaped by ongoing settlement expansion, military operations, and competing claims to statehood.

Attacks during the Palestinian olive harvest included shootings, obstruction of access to groves and damage to trees. A Palestinian man was killed at Burqa; Israel's military acknowledged that soldiers and settlers opened fire, but the source of the fatal shot remained unclear.