Settlers storm Al-Aqsa and continue their attacks in the West Bank news

Dozens of settlers stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday, while attacks by the Israeli occupation army and settlers continued in various areas in the occupied West Bank.

Sources in the Islamic Endowments Department reported that 73 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning under the protection of the Israeli occupation police.

During their storming, the settlers performed Talmudic rituals and prayers, while the occupation police continued to prevent worshipers from entering the mosque during the storming period.

In a related context, the Palestinian Red Crescent crews reported that two young Palestinians were injured by bullets from the occupation forces near the separation wall in the town of Al-Ram, north of the city. One of them (37 years old) was injured in the thigh after midnight last night, and the other (22 years old) was injured this morning in the foot.

Forces and members of the occupation municipality also raided the neighborhoods of the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and carried out searches.

At dawn today, settlers attacked the Khallet al-Sidra community, east of the town of Mikhmas, and destroyed agricultural equipment and water networks belonging to Palestinians in the area.

The occupation army bulldozes about 45 dunums of people’s land in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron. pic.twitter.com/lgPNgpyXll

– Quds News Network (@qudsn) October 20, 2025

Dozens of dunams were bulldozed

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli occupation bulldozers bulldozed about 45 dunums of residents’ land in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

The occupation forces also continued to bulldoze other lands in the Beit Al-Baraka area north of the city, and settlers continued their attacks on farmers in the city’s Wilderness of Shuyoukh.

In Tulkarm, local sources reported that settlers stole olives from Palestinian lands at the entrance to the Ramin Plain, east of the city.

Settlers attacked the village of Al-Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah, closed its entrances and prevented residents from entering and exiting.

Yesterday, Sunday, dozens of masked settlers attacked Palestinian lands in the town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, and beat up a number of farmers and activists – including an elderly woman – and burned a number of vehicles.

A video clip showed an Israeli settler violently assaulting an elderly Palestinian woman while she was picking olives east of the city of Ramallah, causing her to lose consciousness.

A settler assaulted a Palestinian woman who was picking olives on her land in the village of Al-Mughayir, north of Ramallah.#Al Jazeera #video pic.twitter.com/ACZc9wKs0u

– Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) October 19, 2025

Settlers’ attacks in the West Bank increased significantly with the advent of the olive harvest season, which falls at the beginning of the second third of this October.

According to data from the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers carried out 7,154 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank in the two years of the genocide, causing the death of 33 citizens and the displacement of 33 Palestinian Bedouin communities. They also established 114 settlement outposts.

In this context, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced that the occupation forces arrested at least 22 Palestinians during raids in various areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem at dawn on Monday.

Since the start of the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the occupation’s attacks have escalated in the occupied West Bank, leaving at least 1,056 Palestinian martyrs and about 10,000 injured, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,000, including 1,600 children.