Although the situation in Occupied Palestine has changed over the past decades, the olive season still maintains its own elegance and beauty with all members of the family taking part in the harvest. The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture held a festival to announce the beginning of olive harvest season. Every October, Gazans come together to celebrate the ancient tradition of olive harvest where families, farmers and children experience picking olives. This festival is considered as a revival for the symbolic, national and economic importance of the holy tree. Hundreds of ...