Defiant Lebanese farmers harvest olives in the shadow of war

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19 November, 2024


On a mountain slope in south Lebanon, agricultural workers are busy picking olives, undeterred by the roar of Israeli warplanes overhead.

Kfeir is 9km (6 miles) from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, in the mixed Christian and Druze district of Hasbaya, which has largely been spared the violence that has wracked nearby areas.

But even Hasbaya's relative tranquillity was shattered last month when three journalists were killed in an Israeli strike on a complex where they were sleeping