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(28 Oct 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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Turmus Ayya, West Bank - 28 October 2025
1. Wide of tear gas rising from olive groves
2. Wide of farmers, activists leaving groves as tear gas spreads
3. Wide of Israeli military vehicles
4. Various of farmers, activists running from gas
5. Israeli military vehicles
6. Wide of farmers, activists running into Turmus Ayya
7. Israeli soldiers blocking road with military vehicles
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Abu Rahmah, member of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission:
"Turmus Ayya is one of the towns that is subject to daily attacks on farmers. We came to stand with the farmers and reach the remote areas that are difficult to access. However, we were confronted by settler militias who called in military forces, and they flooded the area with tear gas and chased us into the town of Turmus Ayya. All of this is part of a systematic policy aimed at separating and isolating people from their lands and olive trees, allowing for their confiscation and the expansion of settlement outposts."
9. Wide of farmers and activists picking olives
10. Various of settlers driving to olive groves
11. Settlers walking in olive groves
12. Israeli soldier walking next to military vehicles
13. Wide of farmers and activists at grove with settler vehicles in the background
14. Mid of Rami Hamed, farmer from the town of Turmus Ayya
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rami Hamed, Farmer from Turmus Ayya:
"We have a lot of olive trees in this area, as well as in Al-Sahl area, in addition to the olive trees on the outskirts of the town, which we cannot reach. Every time we go to harvest the olives, the army comes and starts shooting and throwing grenades toward the people. The settlers also come with the army and attack the people. Things are very difficult, and there is absolutely no safety."
16. Hamed family picking olives
17. Close of mechanical olive harvester
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rami Hamed, Farmer from Turmus Ayya:
"Two years ago, we produced 260–270 gallons (of olive oil), but last year we couldn’t reach the land there, so we produced only 100 gallons. This year, I don’t expect our production to reach 40 gallons. Hopefully, we'll reach 40, but I don't expect it."
19. Various of farmers picking olives
20. Wide of farmers, activists in olive groves with settlers, military vehicles in the background
STORYLINE:
Foreign volunteers and peace activists arrived to the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya on Tuesday to help farmers harvest olives and to protect them from settler attacks.

"Every time we go to harvest the olives, the army comes and starts shooting and throwing grenades toward the people... there is absolutely no safety," said Rami Hamed, a 42-year-old farmer from the town of Turmus Ayya.

Turmus Ayya, whose population is predominantly Palestinian American, has long been a target of settler attacks but villagers say the violence worsened during the Israel-Hamas war.

"Two years ago, we produced 260–270 gallons (of olive oil), but last year we couldn’t reach the land there, so we produced only 100 gallons. This year, I don’t expect our production to reach 40 gallons," said Hamed.

The town is nestled in a valley, surrounded by hilltops crowned with Israeli settlements and outposts.

Protests against settler violence and the military's perceived failure to curb it have provoked regular clashes with settlers since April, when Israeli forces killed 14-year old Palestinian-American Amer Rabee.

More broadly, settler violence is surging across the West Bank.





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