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Friday, October 16, 2026
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Friday, October 16, 2026
Settler leaders say ‘terrorists and anarchists’ attacked Israelis in ‘planned provocation’
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Israeli soldiers move toward an injured Palestinian man following an alleged settler attack on Palestinians harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, October 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
After Palestinian reports say Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinians during an olive harvest in several parts of the West Bank, a settler council says “hundreds of terrorists and anarchists” hurled stones and shot fireworks directly toward Israelis.
After several were hurt, including a US photojournalist for The Washington Post, the Binyamin Regional Council alleges that the incident was a “planned provocation” in which journalists were behind the Israelis and filmed their reaction.
The clashes have now been dispersed by Border Police forces.
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