Al-Aqsa Mosque faces daily Israeli raids and attacks on the olive harvest season in the West Bank
Extremist settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds.
Photo from WAFA NEWs Agency
October 14, 2025
The occupation forces murdered 78 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire agreement was announced between October 7 and 13, 2025, and injured 354 others during the same period, while continuing to bomb various areas of the Gaza Strip. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes against Palestinians documented the recovery of 315 bodies over the past seven days, which recorded a total of 396 murdered and 422 injured across various Palestinian areas. The total number of Palestinians murdered since October 7, 2023, until October 11, 2025, has reached 68,733, and 179,067 injured.
Over the past Thursday and Friday, the occupation forces bombed the southern Gaza Strip along with Khan Yunis and continued their aerial and artillery bombardment of various areas in Gaza.
On the other hand, the United Nations stated that the occupation forces destroyed 80% of the urban areas in the Gaza Strip over the course of two years, while 42,000 Palestinians sustained severe injuries that permanently altered their lives.
In the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds, Al-Aqsa Mosque faced daily raids, including two by extremist Israeli Defense Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, along with Knesset members Amit Halevy and Zvi Sukkot, who were accompanied by groups of extremist settlers. Israeli forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Hebron to Palestinians and prevented them from praying there for two days, under the pretext of enabling settlers to perform Talmudic rituals and celebrate Jewish holidays. Meanwhile, settlers stormed a mosque in Khirbet Tana in Nablus.
The West Bank witnessed 301 raids by the occupation forces, during which they arrested 134 Palestinians, including 6 children. The occupation forces injured 13 children, while a settler ran over two other children and two adults with her vehicle, causing them injuries. The occupation forces confiscated an agricultural tractor in Hebron, 21,200 shekels and gold jewelry from Palestinians in various areas of the West Bank, and 13 heads of cattle in the village of Sanur in Jenin.
Israeli occupation forces demolished a home in Al-Quds, occupied another, and forced shopkeepers to close their stores in Hebron to ensure settlers could celebrate their religious holidays.
Settlers carried out 128 attacks, including storming Al-Sumoud School and another school in the Ibziq area of Tubas, stealing a water tank from a Bedouin community in the village of Mikhmas in Al-Quds, and stealing the property of a Palestinian family in the village of Kafr Malik. Settlers also stole four heads of sheep near the Ibziq area, burned four vehicles in Nablus, stole two beehives, and damaged a water pump in the northern Jordan Valley of Tubas.
Settlers grazed their livestock in the villages of Al-Mughayyir and Deir Jarir in Ramallah, and in the village of Beit Furik in Nablus. They cut down tree branches in the villages of Kafr Malik and Khirbet Abu Falah in Ramallah and cut down palm trees in the Al-Farisiya area in Tubas. They also carried out bulldozing and excavation operations in agricultural land in Al-Mughayyir.
The olive harvest season was not spared from attacks by settlers and occupation forces, as 24 villages were subjected to 32 attacks during which settlers prevented farmers from harvesting their olive crops. Farmers in West Bank villages are facing a sharp decline in their olive harvest this year, but this did not deter the settlers, who proceeded to steal the crops in those villages, break tree branches, burn them, and uproot them. They also assaulted farmers, preventing them from harvesting their crops. Settlers carried out seven raids on villages in Nablus, Tulkarm, and Ramallah, during which they stole olive crops.
Settlers set fire to olive trees in the villages of Surif and Lzweidein, and cut down and uprooted trees in four villages in Hebron, Nablus, and Ramallah, bringing the number of attacks on the olive harvest season to 45, covering dozens of villages.
Meanwhile, the number of settlement activities during the period between October 7 and 13, 2025, reached four, including settlers erecting a tent in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Al-Quds, bulldozing land in the village of Deir Ammar, and closing dirt roads. Meanwhile, settlers entered the town of Al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya, erecting a tent there, and raising the occupation flags. Settlers also began building a “synagogue” in a pastoral settlement outpost in the town of Tekoa in Bethlehem.
The total number of Israeli crimes committed over the past seven days reached 1,681 across various Palestinian territories, while the total number of Israeli crimes over the period from October 7, 2023, to October 13, 2025, reached 340,710.