A month into this year’s olive harvest season, Israeli settlers and soldiers have already damaged or uprooted 4,500 olive trees in the occupied West Bank. Since January, they have destroyed 100,000 olive trees. In Gaza, since October 2023, 97 percent of Gaza’s two million olive oil trees have been wiped out. Between 1967, when Israel occupied Gaza and the West Bank, and the 2010s, it had destroyed more than 800,000. I think of the devastating sight of uprooted trees in my grandfather’s olive grove every time I hear news of Israel sending yet another delegation to a climate, biodiversity, or desertification conference to boast of its “unique expertise” in “making the desert bloom” – a myth it has long propagated.
Chung toi hien cong khai y chinh. Tao tai khoan mien phi de doc toan bo bai viet, luu, thao luan va ket noi voi boi canh thi truong va OSINT.