Israel’s genocide in Gaza has decimated the trees, the birds, and once green landscapes, according to farmers. Still, they are successfully cultivating several crops in parcels of land there, even crops reliant on pollination.
Amid ecological devastation, the land – like its people – is proving to be resilient.
However, farmers’ ability to revive more land is being impeded by Israel, including through its prohibition on seeds entering the Gaza Strip and its military occupation of over half of the Strip’s land mass, warns the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN), a Jordanian nonprofit supporting farmers there.
APN says it is imperative that global solidarity efforts include pushing for the entry of seeds and other measures that enable “the revival of local agricultural capacities” because “this is how Palestinians can remain steadfast on their land.”
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Image via Arab Group for the Protection of Nature
