Palestinian Women During Olive Season

20 October 2007

A Palestinian woman pours olives into the wind to clean them of leaves at an olive grove in the West Bank village of Salem near Nablus City.

For Palestinians, who start harvesting olives this month across the West Bank, olives are not only an important agricultural product; the olive tree most symbolizes their attachment to the land in the occupied West Bank.

A Palestinian woman pours olives into the wind to clean them of leaves at an olive grove in the West Bank village of Salem near Nablus City.

Palestinian women harvest olives from their tree in an olive grove in the West Bank village of Salem near Nablus City.

Photo's by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images

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