Settlers continue to target Palestinian farmland in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces, who arrived at the scene, expell the Palestinians from their land and declare the area a “military closed zone,” after an Israeli settler attempted to run over Palestinian farmers heading to their fields in the Ras al-Qadi area, north of Halhul town near Hebron in West Bank on November 13, 2025. [Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency]

Israeli settlers stole two cows belonging to a Palestinian man on Thursday evening in the Wadi Qana area, part of the land of Deir Istiya town, north-west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.

The owner said a group of settlers entered the area where the cows were kept, took them, and then fled towards nearby settlement outposts.

Anti-settlement activist Nazmi Al-Salman told the Palestinian News Agency, Wafa, that the theft was part of a systematic policy aimed at pressuring farmers and pushing them to leave their land.

He noted that such actions have increased in Wadi Qana in an effort to impose new conditions that support settlement expansion in the area.

Wadi Qana is one of the main agricultural zones in Salfit and continues to face repeated settler attacks targeting farmers and their property.

The occupied West Bank has seen an unprecedented rise in settlement activity and settler assaults since the start of the genocide war on Gaza on 7 October 2023, alongside direct army protection and clear government support.

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