Israeli settlers and security forces assault Palestinians attempting to harvest olives in the Sa'ir area, east of Hebron. 17 November 2025. Photos: Mosab Shawer/Activestills.
For the Palestinian people, the truth needs no embellishment: one only needs to look at the land to understand history. And today, once again, that land is being attacked, surrounded, and seized by Zionist settlers acting with complete impunity. The arson attacks on Palestinian crops, the theft of harvests, the destruction of centuries-old olive groves, and the violent appropriation of land are not isolated incidents: they are part of a structural policy, conceived and executed to uproot the Palestinian people from their own homeland.
These attacks are not the work of “loose extremists,” nor are they expressions of local tensions. They are manifestations of a colonial project that, from its inception, has been based on expulsion, military occupation, and ethnic superiority. The Zionist movement has demonstrated, decade after decade, that its concept of “peace” is not coexistence, justice, or equality, but rather territorial expansion and absolute control over Palestine.
Israeli settlers and soldiers sought to prevent Palestinian farm workers from harvesting olives in Silwad, east of Ramallah. Settlers blocked the workers’ vehicles and pursued them toward Yabrud, but with support from Zaytun 2025 activists, the farmers ultimately reached their land after a year of denied access.
17 October 2025.
Photos: Avishay Mohar, Oren Ziv / Activestills.
Recent images of settlers invading Palestinian villages, armed and often escorted by occupation soldiers, confirm what the Palestinian people have tirelessly repeated: while Palestinians sow, settlers burn; while farmers harvest, settlers steal; while families work their land, Zionism displaces, demolishes, and confiscates. No peace process can be built on daily theft and systematic violence.
The international community can no longer look the other way. Human rights organizations—including Israeli ones—have meticulously documented the increase in settler attacks, which function as a civilian, armed, and fanatical extension of the occupying apparatus. The direct complicity of the army, which rarely arrests the aggressors and frequently detains the victims, exposes the nature of a system designed not to protect lives, but to protect a project of colonial domination.
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in Idhna, west of Hebron, as Israeli forces expelled Palestinians from their land, seized equipment, and detained a photojournalist.
12 October 2025.
Photos: Mosab Shawer/Activestills.
For Zionism, Palestinian land is plunder; for the Palestinian people, it is existence, identity, and home. Therefore, peasant resistance—the farmer who replants his burned olive tree, the woman who harvests under threat, the family that clings to its plot of land surrounded by settlements—is one of the purest and most profound forms of national resistance.
From the Palestinian Union of Latin America (UPAL), we state clearly:
No “peace” narrative is credible while the usurpation of land, the terror of the settlers, and the unpunished theft of Palestinian produce continue.
If Israel and Zionism truly wanted peace, they would begin by immediately halting this criminal machinery that is destroying the livelihood and dignity of an entire people.
The land speaks, and its message is unequivocal:
Those who steal bread and burn olive trees do not seek peace; they seek expulsion, subjugation, and conquest.
The Palestinian people, on the other hand, seek justice, freedom, and a future in their own land, without settlers, without occupation.
Palestinian Union of Latin America – UPAL
November 18, 2025
