Settlement expert Abdul Nasser Makky warned of systematic, coordinated attacks by Israeli forces and settlers across the West Bank during the olive harvest, restricting 80% of farmers from their land and destroying over 14,000 fruit trees.
Documenting roughly 2,100 attacks and 30 deaths this year, Makky emphasized that this state-backed escalation serves far-right election goals to advance annexation and implement the "E1" plan to fragment the West Bank and isolate Jerusalem.
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