An NZZ reporter joins them in the olive groves ... are still empty – is considered one of Lebanon's national symbols, alongside the cedar tree. The olive trees are too. Everyone in this divided ...

On a mountain slope in south Lebanon, agricultural worker Assaad ... but also noting that the olive "is the tree of peace". Kfeir is 9km from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, in the mixed ...

The Southerners’ olive tree, the one that was planted in the front yard, now overturned, uprooted, burned, and burned and burned, they cradle it. They kiss it, like a mother her dead child. They hold ...