Showing posts with label orchards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orchards. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2026

Israel uproots 400 olive trees in occupied West Bank as harvest season approaches... The trees are hundreds of years old- uprooting them not only destroys the trees, but also affects the livelihoods of Palestinian families that depend on them.

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 September 24, 2026 Israeli forces uproot 400 olive trees belonging to Palestinians and destroy 31 dunams of land with heavy machinery in t...
Monday, November 3, 2025

‘Olives are everything for us’: West Bank farmers prevented from harvesting by settler violence... About 70% of town’s olives are inaccessible without risking a potentially fatal clash with Israeli settlers

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Mahmud Hassan, the mayor of As-Sawiya, pointing to inaccessible olive groves. Photograph: Jason Burke/The Guardian Jason Burke and Sufian...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

"Across Palestine, the olive trees are disappearing, burned, cut, and uprooted by Israeli settlers, often under military protection. In Gaza, tens of thousands of dunums of farmland have been leveled, destroying nearly a million olive trees, some that had stood for centuries. Families are attacked or blocked from reaching their groves, their livelihoods erased before their eyes. Yet every year, people still go to harvest, even among the ashes and stumps, to remember that the land is theirs. When the trees are gone, they still reach, as an act of resistance." Sliman Mansour of Palestine

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sliman.mansour Harvest (حصاد), oil on canvas, 1997 "Across Palestine, the olive trees are disappearing, burned, cut, and uprooted by ...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

"The movement restrictions imposed by these checkpoints and gates severely disrupt the access of nearly 90,000 people to their lands, healthcare, education, and livelihoods." Between olive groves and gates: A Palestinian’s struggle for land and livelihood September 27, 2025 by Fareed Taamallah

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Group of Palestinian children in Bureyc Camp raise the Palestinian flag over the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes following...
Monday, August 25, 2025

"The olive tree is more than a tree in Palestine, it is a heartbeat, a witness, a rooted elder holding centuries in its branches. When Israeli forces and settlers tear these groves from the earth, it is not only roots that are severed, but memory, heritage, and the quiet dreams of generations. Yet even uprooted, the olive carries a stubborn truth: that belonging cannot be erased, and that the land remembers those who loved it." Sliman Mansour of Palestine

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Olive grove (حقل زيتون), oil on canvas, 2012 by Sliman Mansour of Palestine sliman.mansour The olive tree is more than a tree in Palestine,...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

A Palestinian farmer in Gaza discovered this mosaic under his orchard in 2022. Who knows what became of the farmer, his family, his home, and the mosaic: As of 27 May 2025, UNESCO has verified damage to 110 sites since 7 October 2023 – 13 religious sites, 77 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, 3 depositories of movable cultural property, 9 monuments, 1 museum and 7 archeological sites.

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Photos from 2022 : Byzantine mosaics discovered under Gaza farm The mosaics, latest in a series of Byzantine archaeological finds in Gaza, a...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says. Israel has continued to target farmland in once-abundant Gaza Strip ... Gaza was a thriving agricultural hub, where farmers and ordinary Palestinians cultivated a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains for local consumption.

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An aerial photograph, taken on 28 July 2025, shows damaged buildings in Gaza. Photograph: Jehad Shelbak/Reuters Nina Lakhani Wed 6 Aug 2025...