❗️Israeli settlers attack Palestinian olive harvesters, injuring EPA photojournalist and foreign activist Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and foreign solidarity activists harvesting olives earlier today between the towns of Qusra and Jalud, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, injuring European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) photojournalist Alaa Badarneh. According to statements by Qusra Mayor Abdul Azim Wadi, a mob of armed settlers raided farmland in "Area B" where local villagers and international volunteers were gathering olive crops. Settlers physically assaulted the group and hurled heavy stones at close range, striking Badarneh and causing severe body contusions. An international solidarity activist was also injured in the stone-pelting assault. The attack on Badarneh is part of a broader surge in state-backed settler violence explicitly targeting agricultural livelihoods and media personnel documenting land confiscation across the West Bank. On 16 October, approximately 80 masked settlers armed with clubs charged Palestinian olive pickers in Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah. During that raid, 63-year-old Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was beaten for over 10 minutes, suffering broken ribs and vertebrae, while settlers stole her equipment and passport. Israeli occupation forces routinely provide armed escort to settler mobs during the annual olive harvest, using tear gas and live ammunition against Palestinian land owners who attempt to defend their crops and property.