Nearby, Palestinian farmers grow apples, citrus and other crops, using drip irrigation.
There are frequent reports of violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinian farmers during the annual olive harvest.
Aiding Palestinian farmers to market their produce to leading supermarkets.
Thirty Palestinian farmers were initially given access to their farmland through the gates of the settlement.
This analysis might not impress Palestinian and Jordanian farmers, whose land is worthless without adequate water.
Like many Palestinian farmers, Yousef sees the world through his olive trees.
The day after the ceasefire Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian farmer and wounded another 19.
Palestinian farmers have also been severely affected by export restrictions to Israel and an inability to get their produce to market.
The United Nations said Tuesday that losses to Palestinian farmers had amounted to $500,000 a day.
Issa, the son of a well-to-do Palestinian farmer, was born in 1947.