In the Occupied Territories, funerals were held for two Palestinian civilians killed in separate attacks by Israeli troops in the West Bank. The victims were twenty and twenty-one years old. They were demonstrating in separate protests against the killing of an eighteen-year-old Palestinian the day before. Meanwhile, Palestinian farmers taking part in the annual olive harvest are suffering ongoing attacks from West Bank Jewish settlers. Palestinian farmer Hamdalla Afana said the Israeli military has ignored his pleas.

Hamdalla Afana: “We came to pick up our olives, as every year, and we have a permit. I saw the (Jewish) settlers while they were running toward us, so we ran. They started to throw stones, and directly I ran to the military base just fifty meters away from us. I told them that the settlers are throwing stones and breaking my car, but the soldiers kicked me away from the area.”