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.

Palestinian farmers Naser El Khatib and Thaer El Taher stand on land filled with their olive trees at the edge of Beitunia, across from an area controlled by Israel in the occupied West Bank, on ...

A Palestinian man shakes an olive tree during the harvest season at a grove outside Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on November 9, 2023. Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images.

Early Tuesday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers uprooted approximately 30 olive trees in the village of Yasuf, east of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank’s central part. Wael Abu Madi, head of ...

Palestine holds some of the world's oldest olive trees, some of them tracing back almost 5,000 years. It is customary for families to pass down olive trees to their children and grandchildren ...

A Palestinian woman gestures next to a damaged olive tree in the village of Qusra in the northern West Bank in October 2011. ... settlers have uprooted more than 800,000 Palestinian-owned olive trees.

TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian activists and residents planted a grove of 250 olive trees in a northern West Bank town on Monday in memory of the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter ...

The Palestinian Arabs can no longer depend on the Arab world to support their false claims against Israel and they cannot sweep the age of the olive tree in their backyard, the olive tree never ...

She then focused on what is often described as a symbol of Palestinian resilience: olive trees. "So much of the Palestinian identity is tied to the land," she adds.

Olive trees are of cultural, totemic and economic importance to the Palestinian community. About 100 000 families rely on the olive harvest, which takes place yearly between October and November ...