Abd al-Halim Mansour
Olive farmer with 500 trees, racing to pick them
₪64,000for the season’s oil, if he can pick it
The Times of Israel, 8 Oct
Deir Istiya
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500 trees, 80 jerrycans, NIS 64,000: what one grove is worth if it can be picked
Mansour estimates his oil could bring about NIS 64,000 if he finishes the harvest before trouble starts. The Civil Administration's 2026 map lists 737 plots where coordination is required or Israelis are barred, over 70 more than last year, and says more than 100,000 families rely on olives.
Soldiers turn farmers away from their own groves and take their ID cards
In the harvest's first days, Israeli forces turned owners away from their land in Deir Istiya, Farkha, Haris, az-Zawiya and Silwan, confiscating ID cards and sometimes tools, according to WAFA. In Beita the army halted a harvest after settlers arrived, the fourth such shutdown that weekend per Haaretz. Settlers took olives, ladders and tarps in Sinjil, where resident Ayed Jafry says thefts are near-daily.
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