Settlers force olive pickers off land near Bethlehem as harvest incidents spread

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive pickers in Marah Rabah village south of Bethlehem on Saturday, forcing them off farmland under threat of arms.

• Settlers attacked olive pickers at Marah Rabah's eastern entrance and forced them to leave under threat of arms, Wafa reported.
• Four Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire in Maghazi camp in central Gaza.
• Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian while he picked olives in Ras Karkar west of Ramallah.
• Israeli forces seized olive-picking tools east of Ramallah and erected checkpoints at village entrances.