After Three Years of Genocide, Gaza’s Olive Harvest Is Going Extinct
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After three years of genocide, Gaza’s olive harvest is going extinct
The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival of a centuries-old Palestinian cultural tradition.
The Zionist genocide war on the Gaza Strip brought out 90% of the olive-planted areas of the productive sector and reduced oil production to about 700 tons, compared with 5,000 tons before the war, in a collapse from trees and fields to modern times, jobs and the supply of families.
The olive season continues to decline sharply in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli war of extermination and the associated drying and destruction of most of the trees, as well as the lack of fertilizers, water and the high cost of production.
For the third consecutive year, the people of the Gaza Strip are deprived of the olive harvest season, after the Israeli war destroyed one of the most important agricultural and productive sectors in the sector. For three years, thousands of farmers have been unable to reach what remains of their land because of the occupation's control of about 70% of the area of the Strip through what is known as the yellow line, along with ... this third-year…
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