00:00Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are trying to grow their own food again while surrounded by ruins and widespread destruction
00:07to farmland.
00:08Ahmed Astral, who currently works as a farmer and previously owned his own land, said that much of the Gaza
00:13Strip, including the eastern parts, were used to grow crops.
00:16However, this is not happening.
00:20All the land was farmed. It was heaven on earth.
00:24As the saying goes, today, this heaven has turned into hell.
00:28Why? You farm today, the Jews advance a little more, and we have to move and leave our land.
00:34You leave it for two or three months, and then you go back to dead produce.
00:38It keeps on shrinking, and now it is all in Mawasi, and the Mawasi area is now jammed with displaced
00:44people.
00:45Should I farm the land or pitch tents for the people?
00:50But some say they lack the resources and space to plant crops.
00:54As much of the agricultural land is either under Israeli control or being used as displacement shelters.
01:02The prices are expensive for any citizen, for obvious reasons.
01:06Closing the border, scarcity of products, closing the eastern part, the Kanyunis area, controlling Rafa City, the siege by the
01:14Jews.
01:14The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 85% of agricultural land in the Gaza Strip has been severely
01:22damaged,
01:22with most greenhouses, wells, fields, and orchards destroyed.
01:27The food and the land is still in the Gaza Strip.
01:28The food and the land is still in the Gaza Strip.
01:29The food and the land is still in the Gaza Strip.
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