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Al Jazeera
Politics
Linah Alsaafin, Ruwaida Amer

‘Our hearts burn’: Gaza’s olive farmers say Israel war destroys harvest

Palestinians pick olives during a ceremony marking the start of the olive harvesting season last year in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip [File: Said Khatib/AFP]

Gaza Strip – Samaher Abu Jameh is angry.

The mother of two has worked as a farmer with her parents since her childhood in the town of Abasan al-Kabira in southern Gaza, close to the border with Israel. “My land has olive trees and greenhouses planted with tomatoes and livestock,” she says.

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