Video taking off 11x its usual first day

Fires and tear gas interrupt Abu Falah's olive harvest

An activist in the Associated Press footage says settlers came down from an outpost to send a message that villagers should stay off their land.

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Associated Press Story of October 19, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 193,648 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (16,948).

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during olive harvest

Smoke drifts across the olive groves of Abu Falah, a village in the occupied West Bank, as a man works to put out fires burning along the ground near a water truck. In the next shots, harvesters keep picking olives while soldiers in military gear move along a road beside the trees.

The Associated Press Short, filmed by AP photographer Leo Correa, covers Friday's attack on the village during the harvest. Jonathan Pollak, identified on screen as an activist, describes what happened. "As people were harvesting their land, their olive groves, the settlers came down from the outpost in their dozens," he says. He says they threw stones, burned trees and fired toward people. "They didn't hit anyone, but they shot towards people."

Pollak says the army then arrived and "started attacking the people." AP's description says the Israeli military was seen raiding the village and throwing tear gas. The footage shows people running down a dirt path and through village streets, and medics carrying an injured man on a stretcher toward an ambulance, with soldiers and journalists around them. Pollak says the purpose was to send a message that people cannot go to their land.

AP places Abu Falah within a wider pattern. Local officials and the Palestine Red Crescent Society reported attacks in at least eight villages in the northern West Bank, where most of the olive groves are found and where tens of thousands of Palestinian families depend on them for income.

The Short reached about 167,000 views in its first seventeen hours, roughly eleven times what a new AP Short usually draws in a full day. A clip of Prime Minister Mark Carney confirming four deaths in a fire at an Alberta military base also started well above the usual pace on the same day.

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