An estimated one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed. Prior to the genocide Gaza produced 50,000 tons of olives annually.

 An estimated one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed. Prior to the genocide Gaza produced 50,000 tons of olives annually. Via Drop Site News. 

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Hajj Suleiman Abdel-Nabi’s olive farm in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, has gone dry from a lack of water as a result of the war. October 9, 2025. (Photo by Mohamed Suleiman.)

“We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed” Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest. Drop Site News Oct 20 On Sunday, the first day of the olive harvest in the village of Turmus’ayyer, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians farmers and residents in a brutal assault that left many people injured, including a Palestinian women who was knocked unconscious with a club. The incident was captured on video by journalist Jasper Nathaniel who said Israeli soldiers in the area led a group of Palestinian famers “directly into a brutal ambush by armed settlers.” Drop Site spoke to Nathaniel about what happened. You can listen to the interview here. In Gaza, Palestinian farmers are missing their third consecutive olive harvest as Israel’s war on the enclave has all but decimated Gaza’s olive groves. Gaza-based journalist Mohamed Suleiman spoke to olive farmers and agricultural experts to report on the state of olives and the olive oil industry in Gaza two years into the war and as a fragile “ceasefire” has taken hold.... READ MORE