Farmers in Gaza are now reaping the rewards of the olive harvest as the season begins.
A family affair, the harvest seems fathers and mothers working with their children and relatives to pick, gather and sort the olives they have grown.
The varieties range from Al-Sara, Ki 18 and Shamlali, from which olive oil is extracted.
Farmers care for the trees as they do their children’s education because of how sacred and important they are and how beneficial the oil that they produce is.
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Most of this product is sent to olive mills to extract high quality olive oil.
Olive oil prices in the Gaza Strip have reduced this year because of the reduction in consumers’ purchasing power as a result of the ongoing Israeli siege.
Palestinians create olive oil by compressing freshly harvested olives in Gaza on 23 October 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Palestinian worker sorts through freshly harvested olives in Gaza on 23 October 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Freshly harvested olives in Gaza on 23 October 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Palestinian worker sorts through freshly harvested olives in Gaza on 23 October 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Palestinian worker sorts through freshly harvested olives in Gaza on 23 October 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Palestinian worker picks ripe olives in Gaza [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Palestinian workers pick ripe olives in Gaza [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Palestinian worker sorts through freshly harvested olives in Gaza on 23 October 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Palestinians create olive oil by compressing freshly harvested olives in Gaza on 23 October 2017 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Palestinian worker picks ripe olives in Gaza [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]