By Mohammed Asad
Palestine Strawberries from the Gaza Strip are ranked as being among the world’s best.
Every year, the Palestine Strawberry industry employs hundreds of farmers to harvest the strawberry crops to pick, package and ship the popular fruit to locations around the world.
Despite exporting restrictions imposed by Israel’s military occupation, which controls the flow of everything from product importing and product exporting to actual travel and also utility services such as water and electricity, Palestinians manage to export millions of strawberries every year, especially around the Christmas Season.
Despite Israel’s assault of Palestinian civilians — killing more than 2,200 during last summer’s Israeli atrocities and terrorism — the strawberry harvest season began late but is producing an abundance of strawberries that are earmarked for European cities. There were may delays in planting the product and many farmers lost anticipated revenues.
But Palestinians have become accustomed to Israel’s oppression and Israeli settler terrorism and continue to overcome Israel’s atrocities.
photographer Mohammed Asad's photo of Dalia Khalifa won an award in March 2015 at a competition organised by the UN.
'Unbreakable' - is the photo of 9yr old Dalia Khalifa, taken at Al-Shifa Hospital on Aug 9th, 2014. Dalia was badly injured in an Israeli air strike during Operation 'Protective Edge'.
'Unbreakable' is the Grand Jury Winner in the photography competition, organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Middle East and North Africa (UN OCHA).
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Mohammed Asad's home in Shujaiyya was destroyed by Israeli missiles, mortars and tank fire on Friday August 1, 2014 while he was documenting the Israeli massacre of civilians in the Gaza Strip. He is now living in temporary housing as he scrambles to find Internet access to share his photographs when possible.]
- UN Secretary General visits Palestine, Israel - August 30, 2017
- Fadi Thabit photo exhibit documents Gaza Life - July 14, 2017
- Palestinian children celebrate Ramadan Eid in besieged Gaza Strip - June 27, 2017
