At least 11 people were injured in an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to Palestinian health officials.

Among the wounded were journalists, medics, international activists and farmers.

Settler violence has reached new highs during this year's olive harvest.

Saturday's violence came days after the United Nations humanitarian office said that there had been more attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank in October than in any other month since it began keeping track in 2006.

There were over 260 attacks, or an average of eight incidents per day, the office reported.

Activists and medics joined this year’s olive harvest to help Palestinian farmers safely reach and return from their fields.

But they repeatedly came under attack over the past few weeks.

Palestinian journalist Muhamed Al Atrash was caught up in the incident.

"I turned to my right and saw a group of tall people, masked settlers armed with sharp tools," he recalled. "The settlers were attacking one of the paramedics whose face was covered in blood."

Palestinian paramedics on Saturday reported a second settler attack in a nearby village, Burin, with four international activists and one 57-year-old man sustaining injuries.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on either incident.

Rights groups say that arrests for settler violence are rare, and prosecutions even rarer.

Israel’s left-leaning Haaretz newspaper reported in 2022 that based on statistics from the Israeli police, charges were pressed in only 3.8% of cases of settler violence, with most cases being opened and closed without any action taken.

Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war.

The Palestinians seek those territories for a future independent state.

Settler advocates hold key Israeli cabinet positions that grant them and the settlers an important say over the West Bank.

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