Deir al-BalahHaitham Ftayir climbed 10 palms this season, not 100-plus.
Climbing, pruning and pollinating jobs that fed families all year disappeared with the palms.
Israel’s army destroyed an estimated 4,500 dunams of date palms, many inside the so-called yellow line.
Harvester Abdullah Baraka fears there will be no harvest at all within 3 years.
How each outlet framed it
- Mondoweiss leans critical
- traces the collapse of date-palm labour through a single worker, Abdullah Baraka, who went from about 5,000 palms a season to 70
Sources: Mondoweiss