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    There are days when you head out to report a story, and you think you know where it's going. And then it spins in an entirely different direction. This is the story of one such day.
    by Mary Louise Kelly Nov 13, 2023 6 minutes
    Israeli forces take Ayoub Abuhejleh while he was being interviewed by NPR in the West Bank.

    WEST BANK – There are days when you head out to report a story, and you think you know where it's going. And then it spins in an entirely different direction.

    This is the story of one such day last Tuesday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank – the other Palestinian territory.

    It's morning as our NPR team is traveling from Tel Aviv to the West Bank to see a small town called Deir Istiya, and to meet a 54-year-old farmer named Ayoub Abuhejleh. When we arrive at his home, he invites us inside and makes us Arabic coffee.

    Like many Palestinians in the West Bank, he tells us he hasn't been able to access his land and harvest his olives.

    "I planted around 370 olive trees [and] grapes, figs, almonds," he tells us.

    It's harvest season, and while his plants are groaning with fruit, he says he hasn't been able to harvest a single

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