‘They uprooted it all’: Israel bulldozes Palestinian-owned olive groves
Israeli bulldozers uprooted olive groves near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank weeks before the annual harvest.
![Palestinian man Abd Alfattah Tamimi gestures after Israeli military machinery uprooted his olive trees near the Palestinian village of Deir Nizam near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, September 23, 2026 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-09-23T082909Z_1627711264_RC2VONA8IMW1_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-WEST-BANK-OLIVE-TREES-1790215211.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Israeli bulldozers uprooted olive groves near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank weeks before the annual harvest.
![Palestinian man Abd Alfattah Tamimi gestures after Israeli military machinery uprooted his olive trees near the Palestinian village of Deir Nizam near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, September 23, 2026 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-09-23T082909Z_1627711264_RC2VONA8IMW1_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-WEST-BANK-OLIVE-TREES-1790215211.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

![Cows on the milk production turnstile at Casey Pruim's Prime Acres Ltd. dairy farm in Abbotsford, British Columbia - each cow is milked three times a day to produce 30 litres of milk [Ali Mustafa/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/DSLR_PRUIM80-1789051513.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)


![Palestinian farmer Theeba al-Sabaa guards her remaining grapevines from daily settler attacks and agricultural sabotage in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar.[Screengrab/Aljazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-06-at-1.10.04-PM-1788689661.png?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)



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