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Is 2026 Olive Harvest the Last in West Bank
A report from the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies concluded that the 2026 olive harvest season in the West Bank is among the most difficult. It is no longer limited to assaults by settlers and soldiers but has become part of a broader struggle over land and sovereignty. The report indicates that hundreds of attacks occurred in 171 Palestinian communities, with harvesting prevented in 68 cases and crops stolen in 119 cases. Religious tension widely justified settler assaults through religious edicts, such as the rabbi Dov Lior’s fatwa. Additionally, colonial agricultural competition aims to control over one million dunams of land, compared to 845,000 dunams cultivated with Palestinian olives. Restrictions on access to lands, especially “state lands,” along with strict military procedures, have reduced farmers’ ability to harvest their crop, which is estimated at 99,000 tons of olives valued at around 735 million shekels. These measures raise concerns about undermining Palestinian agriculture and replacing it with colonial control, amid religious rhetoric that justifies expansion and settler attacks, and increasing harassment of farmers and their supporters. The report highlights that these policies threaten the future of the olive harvest season as part of a process aimed at reducing the Palestinian presence on the land and deepening colonial domination, thereby disrupting farmers’ rights and threatening their connection to their land.
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