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<title>\u201cWe Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza\u2019s 1.1 Million
Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed\u201d</title>
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olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried
up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving
Palestinian farmers with little to harvest.</div>
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the village of Turmus\u2019ayyer, near Ramallah in
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Gaza, Palestinian farmers are missing their
third consecutive olive harvest as Israel\u2019s war
on the enclave has all but decimated Gaza\u2019s
olive groves. Gaza-based journalist Mohamed
Suleiman spoke to olive farmers and agricultural
experts to report on the state of olives and the
olive oil industry in Gaza two years into the
war and as a fragile \u201cceasefire\u201d has taken hold.</em></p>
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by Mohamed Suleiman</em></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">AL-MAWASI
KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP\u2014The last time Hajj
Suleiman Abdel-Nabi witnessed a normal olive
harvest was three years ago.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Days
before the \u201cceasefire\u201d went into effect on October
10, the 75-year-old farmer took a saw to what
remains of his three-dunam (about three quarters
of an acre) olive farm in southern Gaza\u2019s
Al-Mawasi area. Alongside the massive destruction
of homes and civilian infrastructure wrought by
Israel\u2019s two-year war on Gaza, the toll on
agriculture and farmland in the enclave has been
equally devastating. With Gaza\u2019s water resources
severely depleted, half of Abdel-Nabi\u2019s olive
trees have dried up and died.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cWater
became more precious than gold,\u201d he says. \u201cHow can
I ask for water for trees when people are dying of
thirst?\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Israel\u2019s
war on Gaza that began in October 2023\u2014at the
height of the olive harvest\u2014all but stopped in the
same season with last week\u2019s \u201cceasefire.\u201d Over the
past two years, nearly 68,000 Palestinians have
been confirmed killed, in what is widely
acknowledged to be a vast undercount, and entire
cities and towns have been reduced to rubble.
Israel\u2019s siege and starvation campaign triggered a
famine across much of the enclave. Despite the
genocidal assault that devastated their crops and
sent costs skyrocketing, Palestinian farmers in
Gaza were still preparing for the olive harvest,
even though there are barely any olives left to
pick.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThe
olive trees have become firewood now,\u201d he said
bitterly. \u201cI feel pain with every cut\u2014not just for
the loss, but because these trees are life itself.
For Palestinians, they are a symbol of
steadfastness. When they die, it feels like
another disaster.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Abdel-Nabi\u2019s
son, also named Suleiman, helped his father cut
the dead tree trunks, hoping to save the few trees
that still showed faint signs of life. A
neighboring farmer recently installed a
solar-powered well\u2014one of the only ways to draw
groundwater after Gaza\u2019s power grid was targeted
in the first days of the war\u2014and Abdel-Nabi hoped
to borrow some water to revive whatever trees he
could.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>An
August </span><a
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based on satellite data from the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
and the United Nations Satellite Centre, found
that 98.5 percent of cropland in the Gaza Strip
is either damaged, inaccessible, or both. \u201cThis
means that only 1.5 percent of cropland in
Gaza\u2014232 hectares\u2014is currently available for
cultivation, down from 4.6 percent (688
hectares) as of April 2025, in a territory with
over 2 million people,\u201d the report said.</span></p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cMost
of the trees are gone,\u201d Mohammed Abu Odeh, an
agricultural expert in the horticulture sector,
told Drop Site. \u201cBut some farmers are risking
their lives to pick what remains.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThe
olive harvest is central to life in Gaza,\u201d he
added. \u201cMore than 10,000 families depend on it,
and olive oil is part of every meal. But with
production collapsing and aid restricted, even a
few liters of oil have become treasures.\u201d Today, a
single liter of olive oil sells for about 100
shekels (about $30)\u2014nearly double last year\u2019s
price. \u201cIt\u2019s almost impossible to find,\u201d Abu Odeh
said.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Abdel-Nabi,
a father of 12 children and grandfather of 35,
used to harvest more than 35 gallons of olive oil
each year\u2014about half from Al-Mawasi and half from
two dunams (about half an acre) of century-old
trees in Khan Younis. The trees in Al-Mawasi have
not been irrigated or fertilized since the
beginning war, leaving all the trees dry and dead,
save for a handful he is trying to revive. In Khan
Younis, the Israeli military bulldozed his entire
orchard.</p>
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Suleiman Abdel-Nabi\u2019s olive farm in Al-Mawasi,
Khan Younis, has gone dry from a lack of water
as a result of the war. October 9, 2025.
(Photo by Mohamed Suleiman.)</figcaption></figure>
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<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">With
no harvest, Abdel-Nabi now has to buy olives and
olive oil instead of selling them. \u201cThis year, I
buy the same olives and oil I once sold,\u201d he says.
\u201cI used to sell a kilo of olives for two
dollars\u2014now I buy them for ten. A liter of olive
oil that once cost $10 now costs for $25.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">He
wipes away tears as he looks over the stumps. \u201cThe
olive season was our happiest time of year,\u201d he
said. \u201cWe would gather to pick, sing, and eat
together. Now that joy is gone\u2014like everything
else this war has taken.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
central Gaza, 21-year-old Ahmed al-Adini arrived
at a small olive press on Salah al-Din Road.
Al-Adini is recently married and his wife is
expecting their first child this month. His olive
harvest barely yielded 170 kilograms this season,
down from an average of a ton before the war.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">With
the help of his father and brothers, he carried
sacks of olives by donkey cart to the press. \u201cWe
could hardly water the trees,\u201d he said. \u201cThe land
was next to Israeli tank positions for months.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Still,
the family has insisted on harvesting its crops.
\u201cFor my father, it\u2019s not just oil\u2014it\u2019s identity,\u201d
Ahmed said. \u201cWe want to taste oil from our own
trees, not from somewhere we don\u2019t trust. The
olive tree tells us we are still alive.\u201d</p>
<h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;"><strong>A
Symbol of Steadfastness</strong></h3>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">For
Palestinians, the olive tree is more than just a
crop; it\u2019s a cultural anchor, passed down through
generations and woven into memory and resistance.
Trapped in a suffocating Israeli siege since 2007,
Palestinians in Gaza have long relied on local
agriculture as one of the few ways to survive.
Now, even that has been stripped away.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
another press, 43-year-old Mohammed Abu Jleidan
arrived by bicycle, pushing a small cart with his
two sons: 13-year-old Yusuf and 14-year-old
Mo\u2019tasem. They brought 270 kilograms of olives
from three dunams of land (about three quarters of
an acre) that once yielded two tons.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cGiven
everything\u2014no water, no fertilizer, no care\u2014this
small harvest is a blessing,\u201d Abu Jleidan told
Drop Site. \u201cMany farmers have lost everything.
Their trees dried or were bulldozed. I\u2019m lucky to
have even this.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
cost of pressing oil has multiplied. Before the
war, it cost less than half a shekel per kilo.
Today, it costs three shekels (about $0.9), driven
by soaring prices of diesel, spare parts, and
labor.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cFuel
costs $25 a liter now; it used to be less than
two,\u201d said Zidan Fawaz Zidan, 54, who owns one of
the few presses still running in central Gaza. \u201cWe
used to process 150 tons of olives a day. Now it\u2019s
barely five tons every two days.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">More
than 35 presses have been destroyed across Gaza
over the past two years. Only five remain
operational, all of them in the central region.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">According
to Fayyad Fayyad, the head of the Palestinian
Olive Council, Gaza\u2019s olive sector is \u201calmost
completely destroyed.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThere
is no olive season this year,\u201d Fayyad told Drop
Site. \u201cWe estimate that nearly one million of
Gaza\u2019s 1.1 million olive trees have been
destroyed.\u201d In 2022, Gaza produced about 50,000
tons of olives. This year, Fayyad said, the total
will be well under a thousand. \u201cThe destruction is
deliberate,\u201d he said. \u201cIsrael aims to eliminate
the agricultural sector, including olives. What
remains are scattered trees\u2014not groves, not
production.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Fayyad\u2019s
olive council is preparing a plan to rebuild the
olive sector if the ceasefire holds and the war
ends\u2014beginning with soil testing to detect
contamination from munitions and rebuilding
irrigation networks. The government of Tunisia has
pledged 180,000 olive saplings to Gaza once
conditions allow.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">But
replanting will take years. \u201cThe olive tree is
slow to grow,\u201d Fayyad says. \u201cIt takes patience\u2014and
peace\u2014for it to bear fruit again.\u201d</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Despite
the devastation, Gaza\u2019s farmers are returning to
their olive groves\u2014to water, to prune, to salvage
whatever life remains.</p>
<p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThe
olive tree is the story of Palestine,\u201d Abdel-Nabi
said. \u201cEven when it burns, it still stands in our
hearts.\u201d</p>
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