Settler and military violence against olive harvesters continues. Soon after beginning to harvest their groves early on Friday morning, villagers from the village of Jaloud were severely attacked by a group of settlers and soldiers.  The group of villagers and solidarity activists were harvesting in the village olive groves, while a group of masked settlers came down from Esh Kodesh outpost carrying sticks and stones and started attacking the harvesters. The settlers were followed by Border Police officers, who began shooting large amount of tear-gas canisters towards the villagers. Four people were injured during the events, including one 12 year old boy from Jaloud who required medical treatment and evacuated to an emergency room in Nablus. Approximately ten dunams of olive groves caught fire, but it is still unclear whether the fire was purposefully lit by the settlers or caused by the extensive use of projectiles by the army. Settlers also broke and stole some of the cameras carried by activists.

The village of Jaloud in situated southeast of Nablus, very close to the Qusra, where Essam Kamal Abed Badran Oudah, was killed by the army on the day of the UN bid for recognition of a Palestinian state.   Settler violence against the two villages was reported several times in the past month including an event where settlers set fire to a mosque in Qusra. These attacks have been condemned by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, who urged Israel to investigate torching of the mosque, calling it an attack on 'freedom of religion or belief'.

Still in the same area, farmers in Burin have been prevented from harvesting their lands by the Israeli army. On the lands which the army allowed the families to harvest on, settlers from the nearby settlements have descended the hills to throw stones and intimidate the farmers into leaving. In Beit Furik, despite having obtained harvest permits from the army, villagers have been repeatedly driven out of their lands by settlers.