Palestine: Gaza's Farmers on Front Lines of Perpetual War

Mar 6, 2015 | Dylan Collins, Al Jazeera
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Palestinian farmers in the Gaza Strip are struggling to recover from the 51-day war between Israel and Palestinian armed groups that ended with a ceasefire in late August 2014. Twenty years ago, Jaber Abu Daqqa, 61, moved from his hometown of Khuzaa to nearby al-Faraheen, a village that touches Israel's heavily militarised border with Gaza. "I lost sheep and goats during the war," he told Al Jazeera. "I came back to this house and found it mostly destroyed. It will cost me $10,000 to repair, I think. I plan on paying for it myself," he noted, explaining that he prefers not to wait on international aid. Since the war ended nearly half a year ago, the international community has failed to make good on promises to rebuild Gaza. In many towns and villages across the coastal strip, reconstruction has yet to begin.