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Farming in Despair

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As part of the Thirsting for Justice campaign, Palestinian youth from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in collaboration with local NGOs Juzoor and Save the Youth Future Society, are taking an active role in advocating for their rights to water and sanitation. In 2012 and 2013, the youth visited several communities across Palestine [...]

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Yasin Saber Azzain, 63, owns 10 dunams of agricultural land in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza Strip. Yasin depends on his land to make a living and feed his family, but he hasn’t been able to make a profit from his land due the repeated bulldozing by Israeli military of his land and destruction of [...]

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Khalil Al Fajim, 36, has 52 dunams of land close to Gaza’s border fence with Israel in Abasan Al-Kabeera village, south of the Gaza Strip. Khalil used to work in Israel before the Israeli government banned all Palestinian workers from entering Israel, leaving him as well as many others jobless. Khalil wanted to provide a [...]

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