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The battle of the olive groves

Across the occupied West Bank hundreds of thousands of Palestinian farmers are gathering in the last of the olive harvest.

Middle East correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes describes how in the recent years the harvest has become a battle ground between Jewish settlers and Palestinians.


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