Ramallah, October 21 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, mourners gathered for the funeral of Hanan Salameh, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers as she harvested olives on her land in the village of Faqqua near Jenin. 

At least 757 West Bank Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7th of last year. 

Hanan Salameh’s son described his mother’s killing.  “We were picking olives, and Israeli authorities had previously given us a permit to harvest the olives on the condition that we stay away from the fence 100 meters.  We were farther than around 100 meters.  And when they started shooting, we started packing our stuff and leaving. She was martyred. She was shot by the tractor.  We were by the end of the area, far from the fence, and they shot her in cold blood.  This is what happened.”

Earlier, the United Nations said it’s recorded at least 32 attacks by Israeli settlers targeting Palestinians harvesting olives since the start of October. 

Thirty-nine Palestinians have been injured, and some 600 Palestinian olive trees and saplings were “vandalized, sawed off, or stolen.”

[ SOURCE:  DEMOCRACY NOW ]