Israeli rabbi endorses seizure of Palestinian olives in West Bank; 171 communities hit

A Palestinian research center reports that Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked 171 Palestinian communities during the olive harvest, with crops stolen in 119 cases. A rabbi's statement framing the taking of olives as 'permissible, virtuous' adds religious justification to ongoing land-resource disputes. The incident underscores the intensifying settler violence and resource conflict in the occupied West Bank, though the report's sourcing is one-sided and unverified.