The olive tree is an essential aspect of Palestinian culture, heritage and identity, and has been mentioned in the Bible, the Qur’an, and the Torah. Many families depend on the olive trees for ...

[7] Atyaf Alwazir, “Uprooting Olive trees in Palestine,” Inventory of Conflict and Environment (ICE), Case Number: 110, American University, November 2002. CounterPunch+ Burning All Illusions ...

Olive trees, a major component of the Palestinian agrarian economy in the West Bank, have figured prominently in Israel’s perennial conflict with the Palestinians.

Rabbi Ascherman came here a week ago to document Palestinian allegations that their olive trees had been cut down. He was attacked and beaten by a group of Jewish settlers. "I got hit by a stone.

Jewish settlers uproot 8,400 olive trees in 2020, affecting source of living of thousands of Palestinian farmers - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Thus, the olive tree also serves as a potent symbol of Palestinian steadfastness, and the links between generations—as Honi HaMa’agal teaches us regarding his own tree planting in the Talmud ...

A Palestinian farmer reacts to the vandalism of olive trees in the village of Salim, near the West Bank city of Nablus, as Israeli soldiers look on.

Nearly half of the available agricultural land in the West Bank is planted with olive trees, more than 12 million of them. Olives and olive oil represent a quarter of the area’s agricultural income.

The olive tree is so intrinsic to Palestine that it featured in the work of famed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, shown here on a protester’s sign during a march calling for aceasefire in Gaza ...

Israeli police are “miserably failing” to protect Palestinian olive groves in the West Bank from vandalism, producing just a handful of indictments in over 200 documented cases of tree ...

Main image: Bashar Eid, a Palestinian olive farmer and resident of the West Bank village of Burin. Olive groves belonging to Eid went up in flames on September 11.