Experts from key state and civil society organizations are joining forces to protect what could be the last wild olive trees in Israel. The plants — many looking more like bushes, with tiny fruits ...

These trees have endured drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning—much like the people of Gaza. But they fought to survive. Each year, my family looks forward to the olive ...

Last spring, a Palestinian farmer was planting a new olive tree when his shovel hit a hard object. He called his son, and for three months, the pair slowly excavated an ornate Byzantine-era mosaic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Israeli military has destroyed about 3,000 olive trees in a village near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the head of the ...

Amid the ruins of Palestinian villages destroyed by Israeli forces, life sprouts from the branches of newly-planted trees. While the Israeli government might suggest that this is nature reclaiming old ...

As guardian of the occupied West Bank's oldest olive tree, Salah Abu Ali prunes its branches and gathers its fruit even as violence plagues the Palestinian territory during this year's harvest. "This ...

Over the past week, Israeli forces have bulldozed and uprooted 3,000 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah. The village of al-Mughayyir has been ...

BEITUNIA, West Bank — This time of year, Palestinian olive farmers are usually hard at work in their groves. But during this harvest season, 35-year-old West Bank farmer Thaer el Taher can only look ...