On Tuesday morning, 21 October 2025, farmers from the village of Kafr Ra’i went to harvest olives on their land north of the village.
At around 11:30 A.M., a vehicle arrived, and four masked soldiers got out. The soldiers began loading sacks of olives collected by Hamdan Jawabreh, a 50-year-old farmer from the village, onto the vehicle.
Jawabreh tried to stop them, but they hit him with their rifles, injuring his head and back.
The soldiers then pushed his wife, Fatenah, who fell to the ground, loaded two sacks of olives onto their vehicle and drove toward other Palestinian harvesters.
Jawabreh was taken in an ambulance to Khalil a-Salman Hospital in Jenin. His head wound was stitched, and he was discharged.
At around noon, the soldiers arrived where another farmer, Hassan Jaludi, 37, was harvesting with his uncle and another hired hand. The soldiers stole five and a half sacks of olives, as well as the plastic sheets and two electric olive shakers, and loaded them onto their vehicle. When Jaludi tried to protest, one of the soldiers punched him in the face and threatened to confiscate the tractor he had arrived with.
Finally, the soldiers ordered the farmers to leave and then left as well.
B’Tselem field researcher Abdulkarim Sadi collected testimonies from several of the farmers:
Hamdan Jawabreh, 50, a father of six, related:
On Tuesday morning, 21 October 2025, I went with my wife, Fatenah Jawabreh, to our land north of Kafr Ra’i, in an area called a-Bahiri. This area lies in territory designated as Area A under the Oslo Accords .
We harvested olives until 11:30 A.M., and then a white pickup truck suddenly arrived, stopped, and four men wearing military uniforms and carrying M16 rifles got out. They were all masked and had tassels on their clothes, which is common among settlers.
Without saying a word, they started loading sacks of olives onto the bed of their pickup. I tried to keep them from stealing the olives, and then one of them hit me on the head with his rifle, wounding me and causing me to bleed. He also struck my back and body with the butt of the rifle. One of the soldiers also shoved my wife violently, and she fell on her back. The soldiers stole two sacks of olives. Then they fled quickly in their vehicle. They drove toward other groves, and later, I learned that they stole more produce.
After that, my relatives and other village residents arrived and helped evacuate me to the village. From there, I was taken by ambulance to Khalil a-Salman Hospital in Jenin, where they stitched the wound in my head.
Hassan Jaludi, 37, a father of two, said:
On Tuesday morning, 21 October 2025, I went out with my uncle and another worker to harvest olives on my uncle’s land in the Wadi Shlash area, near the northern houses of Kafr Ra’i. During the harvest, at around 12:00 P.M., a white pickup truck arrived, and four soldiers whom we know from the area got out. They were masked. They didn’t say anything and immediately started loading the sacks of olives we had harvested since the beginning of the day. They stole five and a half sacks, and when I tried to stop them from stealing the olives, one of them punched me in the left cheek, and I felt a sharp pain. The settlers threatened that if we tried to resist, they would confiscate the tractor we use to go to the land and transport the yield. They also stole two electric olive shakers, each worth about NIS 1,400 (~450 USD), and five plastic sheets used to collect the olives. After they stole everything, they kicked us off our land at gunpoint, and we had to go home with heavy hearts, after all the hard work of that day went to waste.