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Nov 2020
12m 23s

Harvesting olives under tear gas

Al Jazeera
About this episode

There are millions of olive trees in the Occupied West Bank, and they're a main source of the territory's agricultural income. But the olive harvest is often a source of conflict between Palestinians and Israeli settlers, and this season, that conflict was worse than usual.

In this episode:

Ibrahim Husseini (@husseiniibrahim), freelance journalist in Jerusalem; Sayel Kanan, Palestinian from Burqa.

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