The struggle to preserve the Palestinian olive and date harvest

The U.N. says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that ...
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Olive farmers face danger, neglect after Israel’s war in southern Lebanon

Hussein owns several dunams of olive trees right on Lebanon’s border with Israel. Some of his olive trees, centuries old and ...
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7 Fruit Trees That Are Perfect For Growing Indoors

Fruit trees typically need a lot of sunlight to thrive indoors, around six to eight hours each day. Placing them in a south- ...
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Photos show monks and nuns harvesting olives on the Holy Land’s Mount of Olives

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jesus prayed among the olive trees in the garden of Gethsemane on his last night before the crucifixion, according to the Gospel. Two millennia later, the mostly Catholic monks and ...

A Bloody Month in the West Bank Olive Harvest Leads to the Death of a Boy

Palestinians see the violence, and its tolerance by right-wing Israeli officialdom, as part of a broader campaign to harass ...