Punjab, Oct. 16 -- The United States has signed a deal to supply Israel with 12 Apache gunships for about one billion dollars. The Rafah crossing stayed shut for a second week. And Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians across the occupied West Bank during the olive harvest.
The olive harvest detail
Settlers attacked Palestinians on Friday and set fire to cars and trees. This happens every October, and the timing is not incidental.
The olive harvest is the single largest agricultural event in the Palestinian economic calendar - a few weeks in which a large share of annual rural income is earned, by families working groves that in many cases have been held for generations. Trees take a decade to become productive. Burning them is not vand...