In the weeks before the October olive harvest, Israeli army bulldozers moved through the groves of Deir Nidham village near Ramallah, uprooting trees that Palestinian families had cultivated across generations. The timing, farmers say, was deliberate — designed to strike at the moment of greatest consequence, when the fruit was nearly ready and the year's labor was about to yield. What was destroyed was not only a crop but a livelihood, a rhythm of life, and a form of belonging to the land that olive cultivation has long embodied for Palestinian communities. The act joins a pattern that human
Israeli bulldozers destroy Palestinian olive groves ahead of harvest season
Palestinian farmers lost their olive groves and annual harvest income, with August attacks affecting 19,375 olive trees across the West Bank.