Olive Trees Israel Palestine
Palestinians from two west bank towns reported that dozens of olive trees in their groves were cut down wednesday overnight.
Olive trees israel palestine. In february 2015 irish born filmmaker and photographer bryony dunne traveled across the west bank and encountered evidentiary support for such activity in tree stumps and civilian stories. Palestinian farmer mahmud abu shinar surveys two rows of severed olive trees something he says has become a sadly familiar sight. In some cases it may even be jewish settlers who vandalise or cut down the olive trees kershner 2005 and even when the israeli army have allowed the palestinians to harvest their olive crops. In such instances the israeli army will generally not intervene pigni 2010.
He didn t see who took a chainsaw to them at night but he blames. Olive trees are a major agricultural crop in the palestinian territories where they are mostly grown for olive oil production. Olive oil is the second major export item in palestine. They rely economically on the olive harvest.
They are unmistakably jewish. It has been estimated that olive production accounted for 57 of cultivated land in the palestinian territories with 7 8 million fruit bearing olive trees in 2011. Since 1967 israeli authorities uprooted 800 000 palestinian olive trees. Settlers filmed destroying 100 palestinian olive trees as idf appears to look on army says it dispersed israelis who have been involved in eight such attacks since drive by killing of rabbi by.
Their white skullcaps sidecurls and tzitzit ritual fringes make that clear. Olive trees account for 70 of fruit production in palestine and contribute around 14 to the palestinian economy. In the area of the southern hebron hills near the village of susya some 160 trees were cut down. 93 of the olive harvest is used for olive oil production while the rest is used for olive soap table olives and pickles.
The olive trees in the west bank palestinian village of burin in the northern west bank do not belong to these young men and no one gave them permission to harvest olives in this grove west of the hawara checkpoint. Since 1967 an estimated 800 000 palestinian olive trees have been destroyed by israeli authorities and settlers. For the last forty years over a million of olive trees and hundreds of thousands of fruit trees have been destroyed in palestinian lands.