Some 80 settlers, some of them carrying gas canisters, descended from a hill above a terraced olive grove where villagers from Abu Falah had gathered to pick ripe fruit, a cherished annual tradition in Palestinian life.

Dozens of militant Israeli settlers burned olive trees and threw rocks at ​Palestinians in an attack on Friday on a West Bank village's annual harvest that injured at least two people.

Some 80 settlers, some of them carrying gas canisters, descended from a hill above a terraced olive grove where villagers from Abu Falah had gathered to pick ripe fruit, a cherished annual tradition in Palestinian life.

Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinians while picking olives in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, seriously injuring several people, including a photographer.

Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinians in towns across the occupied West Bank during the olive harvest.