UN says only 3% of Gaza cropland accessible and undamaged
- On Tuesday, the Food and Agriculture Organization warned that just three percent of Gaza's cropland remains accessible and undamaged, citing satellite image analysis.
- The FAO said reduced access stems mainly from the 'westward expansion' of the so-called 'Yellow Line' that separates the ceasefire zone from the Israel Defense Forces military-controlled area.
- Greenhouse availability dropped 17.3 percent since October 2025 to 224 hectares, affecting farmers Taysir Dahdouh and Wajiha Dahdouh; Dahdouh managed to rehabilitate about one tenth of a hectare using basic tools.
- Rafah faces the highest levels of inaccessible cropland at 97.2 percent, while farmers in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah see the largest land reductions; most of Gaza's 2.1 million people remain confined to a shrinking area.
- Without urgent action to restore safe access, Rein Paulsen, director of the agency's Office of Emergencies and Resilience, warned opportunities to restore local food production will continue to diminish.
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Only 3% of the arable land in the Gaza Strip remains intact and accessible to farmers, a critical situation due mainly to the expansion of military exclusion zones, alerted the UN on Tuesday. The data emerges in the midst of the continuation of violence in the enclave, where a new Israeli air strike killed six people on Tuesday, and after statements by Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, of the extreme right, who defended da…
Rome (agencies) warned the United Nations yesterday that only 3% of arable land in the Gaza Strip remained intact and available to farmers, a risk created by the expansion of the military embargo zones. According to a study published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNSAT), the latter degradation was mostly due to severe restrictions on access to agricultural land, refl…
A UN study revealed that only 3% of crop fields in Gaza are still accessible. This is the impact of the crisis on food.
This critical situation is mainly due to the expansion of the Israeli military exclusion zones.
UN says only 3% of Gaza cropland accessible and undamaged
Just three percent of the cropland in Gaza remains accessible and undamaged, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization warned Tuesday, citing an analysis of satellite images.The report found that since October 2025, when a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold, the area of accessible and undamaged cropland had fallen to 448 hectares from...
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