Strawberry farmers waited eagerly to pick their proud November harvests in northern Gaza. Then they saw their farms turn to ashes.
With the sun burning the back of their necks, Palestinian farmers start working the strawberry fields in the city of Beit Lahia, close to the Israeli border in northern Gaza, in early September.
“All of our efforts, sweat, and labour vanished within minutes”, says 24-year-old Palestinian farmer Yousef Abu Rabee, a resident of Beit Lahia, describing the devastation wrought upon the farms. Besides the food shortage created by Israel’s refusal to let aid trucks reach desperate Palestinians, airstrikes and shillings have destroyed local farmlands that once fed a large number of the people.of satellite imagery released in January, the United Nations Satellite Centre made a grim assessment of the ongoing Israeli strikes’ devastating impact on the North, which Palestinian farmers describe as “Gaza’s food basket”.
Strawberry cultivation has transformed the region into a tourist attraction, drawing visitors from across Gaza, he says.Ali Al Keelani, president of the Gaza Agricultural Cooperative Society in Beit Lahia, says it was natural for farmers to adopt strawberry farming. It is"a bond akin to that of a son with his father — a relationship steeped in love, belonging, and sacrifice, integral to their lives," he tellsRecalling his earliest involvement in farming, Abu Rabee, the young farmer, recounts accompanying his father to the fields during school breaks when he began learning about the farming business.
This season, strawberry farmers cultivated a significantly large area of 4,500 dunums, incurring substantial costs. .A Palestinian woman picks fresh strawberries from her family farm, in the early morning in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Agricultural products constituted over 50 percent of the territory’s exports, with the added value of agricultural activities estimated at $343M.Nizar Al Wahidi, General Director of Guidance and Development of the Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza, highlights Northern Gaza's vital role as the agricultural heartland of the entire region.
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