Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where the Gospel narrates Jesus spent the last night before being taken up the other side of ...

Having spent the night in an immigrant detention center in Ramle, Israel, Leila Stillman-Utterback, still handcuffed, began ...

Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian villagers, activists and journalists on Saturday who had gathered during an ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers descended on Palestinian olive harvesters and activists this week in the ...

Israel has ramped up deportations of foreigners involved in advocacy for Palestinians or demonstrations against the ...

As guardian of the occupied West Bank's oldest olive tree, Salah Abu Ali prunes its branches and gathers its fruit even as ...

Umm Shukry inspects her olive trees one by one, just as she did every year for a decade. But this olive harvest season is different. Nearly all her trees are damaged; their branches bare and brittle.

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