26 October 2024, Bekaa, Lebanon. Driving through the early morning mist towards the Syrian border to reach the olive grove near Deir Al Ghazal.

25 October 2024, Deir El Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Abou Iyad, father of a family of four, all employed as pickers, walking between olive trees still to be picked.

26 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Olives.

25 October 2024, Deir El Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. The pickers begin the harvest with tree one of 63.

25 October 2024, Deir El Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. The olives are caught in tarpaulins spread under the trees, then gathered up to have the leaves and twigs removed by hand.

25 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. The plan had been to use batteries to power three electric olive harvesters rented for the occasion, to help the harvest go as fast as possible. The electric harvesters had other ideas and refused to switch on. Eventually Gill brought his van down and ran the engine all day so they could hook up to its battery.

25 October 2024, Deir El Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Aziz picking olives with an electric harvester.

10 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Emm Iyad sifts leaves and small twigs from the olives, a process she'll repeat 63 times in two days.

25 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Aziz wields an electric picker while, his mother, Emm Iyad moves a tarpaulin to the next tree.

25 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Zahra hand picks olives. She's not picked these trees before. She's from a village further down the Bekaa valley, but had to leave almost two weeks ago, when Israel bombed her home, killing her sister.

25 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Sifting olives.

25 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Abou Iyad and Zahra sift olives.

25 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Abou Iyad and Zahra pack olives into crates

25 October, Deir El Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Emm Iyad, wife of Abou Iyad and mother of Aziz and Faycal hand picking olives.

25 October 2024, Deir El Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Hammoudi joined the harvest out of curiosity. He arrived with five other children, all of them displaced by Israeli bombardment in the previous few weeks. They used to live in Sour, Saida, Baalbek and villages in South Lebanon.

25 October, Deir El Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. A group effort to sift the leaves from the olives of the final tree picked on day one.

26 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. The Debs family land at the beginning of day two, planted with olives, cherries and almonds, backed by the lower slopes of the Anti-Lebanon Range marking the Syrian border.

26 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Faycal using an electronic picker.

26 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Faycal reaches an electronic picker in to get olives from the undersides of the branches.

26 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. All hands on deck to finish the final tree of 63.

26 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Gill loads sacks of olives into his van.

26 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Gill and Faycal load sacks of olives into a van.

26 October 2024, Deir el Ghazal, Bekaa, Lebanon. Gill, Abou Iyad and Faycal pack crates of olives into a truck for transport to the olive press.

26 October 2024, Bekaa, Lebanon. Following the olive lorry though Chtoura on the way south to get the olives pressed while they're still fresh enough for the best oil.

26 October 2024, Shaker Olive Press, Aitanite, Lebanon. Staff unload freshly picked olives while olive farmers wait for their olives to be pressed at the Shaker Olive Press to the sound of Israeli strikes on a neighbouring village. The press was open 24/7 as farmers from south Lebanon and the Bekaa rushed to get this war time harvest in as fast as possible.

26 October 2024, Shaker Olive Press, Aitanite, Lebanon. Olive farmers wait as staff empty olives into a hopper to start their journey through the press.

26 October 2024, Shaker Olive Press, Aitanite, Lebanon. A worker stacks hemp mats covered with stone-ground olives prior to compressing to extract the oil.

26 October 2024, Shaker Olive Press, Aitanite, Lebanon. Green gold: fresh olive oil from Lebanon's war-torn 2024 pressing.

26 October 2024, Shaker Olive Press, Aitanite, Lebanon. Jad and his father wait for his freshly pressed olive oil to be poured into 20 litre canisters at the Shaker Olive Press to the sound of Israeli strikes on a neighbouring village.