Gaza's agriculture authorities estimate barely 150,000 of 2 million olive trees still stand and expect about 700 tons of oil instead of the usual 5,000. Grower Haidar Abu Middain, 60, whose family orchard once filled up to 900 16-litre drums, expects two drums from 20 or 30 surviving trees; oil sells near $500 a drum, about triple the pre-war price.
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Civil servant in Gaza, paid in worn banknotes (name changed)
Gaza
₪1,500every 45–50 days; it was ₪2,000 every 30–35
Mondoweiss, 14 Oct
Olive-press owner; one production line rebuilt from the rubble
al-Zawayda
1 of 7press lines running again
Palestinian Information Center, 14 Oct
Harvest day labourer; the season used to give him two or three months
1 dayof harvest work this season
Reuters, 14 Oct
Olive grower with 20 or 30 trees left
2 drumsof oil expected; up to 900 before
Reuters, 14 Oct