By Muhammad Akmal Khan

Uprooting identity, uprooting peace: Israel’s war on the olive tree

ISLAMABAD - At dawn upon a West Bank hill, a Palestinian farmer stands still, watching in silence as Israeli bulldozers creep into his ancestral grove. The machines growl, their steel jaws sinking deep into the earth, tearing at the roots of olive trees his grandfather once planted with care. Each snap of a branch, each fall of a trunk, feels like a page torn from his family’s history.