15 injured in Israeli settler attacks, including a Reuters photographer

15 people were injured on Saturday in baton attacks by settlers in the villages of Burin and Beita, near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Among them, a Reuters journalist identified as Raneen Sawafta was beaten in Beita while covering the olive harvest, according to a video circulating on social media, in which she can be heard screaming in pain after the attack. She was immediately taken to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus.

The attacks in these two villages targeted residents harvesting olives, according to Palestinian sources cited by The Times of Israel.

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Israeli settlers carried out at least 264 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during October, the highest monthly total since the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) began recording such incidents in 2006.

In a statement, OCHA noted that these attacks, which resulted in multiple deaths and material damage, represent an average of “eight incidents per day.”

“Since 2006, OCHA has documented over 9,600 attacks of this type. About 1,500 of them occurred this year, nearly 15 percent of the total,” the agency added. It also reported that 42 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the start of the year, “meaning that one in five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2025 was a child.”

In Gaza, the situation remains equally dire despite the cease-fire established in early October. The Gaza Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that the official death toll from the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian enclave since Oct. 7, 2023, now stands at 69,169, following the identification of new victims and the discovery of additional bodies under the rubble.

Quinze blessés dans des attaques de colons israéliens, dont une photographe de Reuters