Overview
- Viral footage from Turmus Ayya shows a masked settler clubbing 55-year-old Afaf Abu Alia as she harvested olives, with additional videos showing groups of masked men chasing vehicles and torching cars.
- Palestinian health officials said the woman was hospitalized with serious injuries and later stabilized, while Israeli police confirmed an investigation and the army said forces dispersed the incident.
- US journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who filmed the assault, disputes the Israeli account, saying no forces intervened during the attack and alleging soldiers had been on site earlier before leaving.
- Citing a sharp escalation, the UN human-rights office reported 757 settler attacks causing casualties or damage in the first half of 2025 and noted that 80,000 to 100,000 Palestinian families depend on the olive harvest.
- Israeli authorities announced the deportation of 32 foreign activists with long entry bans over alleged links to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, following reports of dozens of harvest-related assaults and tree destruction this month.