Have you heard the phrase “extending an olive branch”? It means making a peace-offer to end hostilities. This is because the olive has long been a symbol of peace in many western cultures. In fact, if ...

"This is no ordinary tree. We're talking about history, about civilisation, about a symbol," the 52-year-old said proudly, smiling behind his thick beard in the village of Al-Walajah, south of ...

A forest of olive trees once covered the world’s oldest temple site, but they weren’t ancient. Planted by landowners in the 1990s to raise land value, the trees grew over buried pillars of Göbekli ...

Traditionally a moment of joy and sharing between generations, olive harvesting has collapsed due to the war between Hezbollah and Israel. The Israeli military, which launched fresh attacks in the ...

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PORT SHELDON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A West Olive convenience store was held up at gunpoint Wednesday morning, deputies say. It happened just before 11 a.m. at the West Olive One Stop on West Olive ...

UN official reports 13% rise in attacks at start of season Activists say violence has increased since 2023 Olives are symbolic crop, crucial to agricultural economy TURMUS AYYA, West Bank, Oct 24 ...

Scroll down to read a full list of the remaining closures A MAJOR UK retailer is set to permanently pull the shutters on another location today. Shoppers can still nab deals as the bargain chain’s ...

Army-backed Israeli settlers carried out a series of assaults on Palestinians and olive pickers across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, amid an escalating wave of settler violence. In the town of ...

Hamra, West Bank (CNN) — Umm Shukry inspects her olive trees one by one, just as she did every year for a decade. But this olive harvest season is different. Nearly all her trees are damaged; their ...

Palestinians harvest olives in the occupied West Bank village of Turmus Ayya — Hazem BADER The scene shocked many and highlighted the violence of this year's olive harvest in the Israeli-occupied West ...