JENNY KASSMAN details how Israeli military raids, settler violence and harvest obstruction are devastating Palestinian communities during the 2024 olive harvest as the world turns a blind eye

For a decade, JENNY KASSMAN has returned to the occupied West Bank to bear witness to the increasingly brutal treatment of native villagers by Israeli settlers and soldiers — without international pressure, the outlook remains bleak

Whenever Israel’s crimes make the headlines, they are swiftly effaced from the public narrative as military and commercial interests take precedence over justice for Palestinians, argues JENNY KASSMAN

Farmers in the West Bank are cut off from their olive groves by laws to defend and extend illegal Israeli settlements – when they do go to harvest, they are attacked, sometimes by the army too. JENNY KASSMAN reports on the deteriorating situation