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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Philippe Pernot

‘Our seeds, our roots’: Sowing hope as Israeli bombs fell on Lebanon

Walid Youssef, co-founder of the Buzuruna Juzuruna agroecological collective in Lebanon, shows ready-to-plant seeds available for purchase, November 3, 2024 [Philippe Pernot/Al Jazeera]

Bekaa Valley, Lebanon – A warm wind blows over the rocky, arid landscape of the Lebanon-Syria border, ruffling the silhouettes walking slowly through the mountain pass, clambering around two huge craters.

What used to be a densely packed road stretching all the way from Beirut in Lebanon, through the Bekaa Valley and on to Damascus in Syria via the Masnaa Crossing, has been reduced to rubble by Israeli bombardment. All travel has become near impossible.

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