Armed settlers loyal to the Israeli regime stormed Palestinian farmland near the village of Turmus’ayya, northeast of Ramallah, witnesses told Al Jazeera.
According to the Wafa news agency, the settlers assaulted olive pickers and forced them to flee their fields.
Israeli occupation forces later erected checkpoints at both ends of the village, searching passing vehicles and restricting Palestinian movement.
The latest assault is part of a wider pattern of settler and army violence sweeping the occupied West Bank.
In Tubas, Israeli forces used bulldozers to destroy streets and carried out home raids.
Snipers were deployed as the military sealed off the city’s southern entrance, Wafa reported.
Even after the Gaza ceasefire was announced, Palestinians in the West Bank remain under siege.
One resident recalled his friend’s young daughter asking to join her grandparents for olive picking after hearing about the truce.
He told her it would be too dangerous.
“Why? Isn’t the war over?” she asked — a question that underlines the grim reality that the so-called ceasefire does not extend to the West Bank.
Palestinian families are still denied access to their land because of army roadblocks and constant threats of settler attacks.
Daily assaults on Palestinian farmers and their property continue unchecked.
Since October 7, 2023, there have been 7,154 recorded attacks by Israeli regime settlers on Palestinian people and property, some resulting in deaths.
Nearly 1,000 Palestinians — including 212 children — have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settler militias, while more than 10,000 have been displaced.
Occupation forces and settlers have uprooted or burned over 37,000 olive trees during this period.
For Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Gaza ceasefire brought no respite.
As one resident put it, “There is no ceasefire for us — only more checkpoints, raids, and destruction.”
Daily life remains suffocated under the occupation’s unrelenting violence, now deepened by the impunity granted to armed settlers.