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 thousands of olive trees have been uprooted during wars imposed by Israeli forces against Gaza. Palestinians held the festival near the buffer zone to condemn the Israeli violations of the agricultural lands in Gaza.
Despite the continuous burning and cutting of trees, Palestinians insist on planting trees as a way to resist the Israeli occupation.
