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Jan 2026
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A bloody season: the olive harvest in th...

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Every October, Palestinian farmers harvest their olives. It should be a season of celebration. Instead, under Israeli occupation, it's become a frontline.

This episode follows journalists who embedded with the Zaytoun 2025 campaign for 10 days in the occupied West Bank. They witnessed Israeli settler attacks, tear gas, burned cars, Israeli military closures, and the killing of a 13-year-old boy named Ayssam Jihad Ma'ala, who died after inhaling tear gas at a harvest with his family.

But they also witnessed something else: Palestinian farmers who refuse to leave their land. Community organizers who show up every morning knowing what awaits them. A resistance built on steadfastness, not spectacle. Sumud.

By mid-November, there were over 160 settler attacks and 150 injured Palestinians. This is the story of what that looked like on the ground.

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