olive harvest

Israeli forces uprooted at least 500 olive trees in Zububa village near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, part of a large-scale operation near the separation wall. The destruction threatens 120 additional dunams of olive groves, disrupting the annual harvest critical to local Palestinian communities.

Residents of a village in the Homs countryside in Syria are reviving olive harvesting, a tradition disrupted by 14 years of civil war, symbolizing a return to normalcy. The postwar harvest offers a 'long-lost taste of home' for locals.