World’s Oldest Olive Trees Found in Lebanon and Palestine
March 30, 2026
Lebanon is home to the Sisters Olive Trees of Noah in Bchealeh, believed to be over 5,000 years old. In Palestine, the Al-Badawi tree in Al-Walaja has stood for nearly five millennia outlasting every empire, crusade, and occupation that ever tried to claim the land.
But today, these ancient sentinels are being targeted. Reports confirm that over 60,000 olive trees in Southern Lebanon have been wiped out by white phosphorus and scorched-earth tactics. In the West Bank, state-backed settler violence is preventing the harvest and uprooting thousands of trees to make way for illegal expansion.
They want to turn these ancient groves into sterile buffer zones because the existence of a 5,000-year-old tree proves who the land truly belongs to.
Imagine the history these trees have seen! Empires have risen and fallen, but the roots of the Levant remain.
Source: @queenofpalestine
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