Small-scale projects offer hope for Gaza farmers rebuilding lives

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 15, 2026 · 843 words · By Eman Abu Zayed

Humanitarian Crisis Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Agricultural Destruction

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What to know about Humanitarian Crisis

Small-scale projects offer hope for Gaza farmers rebuilding lives Greenhouses and rented plots are lifelines for Gaza’s farmers, helping them grow crops despite the extensive destruction.

Claims checked 11

Techniques found 2

Topics 3

Coverage spectrum

Coverage gap: Low Left coverage

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What happened

Small-scale projects offer hope for Gaza farmers rebuilding lives Greenhouses and rented plots are lifelines for Gaza’s farmers, helping them grow crops despite the extensive destruction.

Why it matters

Nuseirat, Gaza Strip – Mohammad al-Halabi, 50, bends over tomato and eggplant seedlings in a 300-square-metre plot in the middle of central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, inspecting the leaves, watering the plants and monitoring their growth.

Common ground

The small plot he is tending is an attempt to reclaim his old profession as a farmer with his father, Marwan, on their land in northern Gaza’s Jabalia.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Pity: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence

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Appeal to Pity 70% confidence

Evoking sympathy to win support rather than using logical arguments.

Why it matters: Recognizing appeal to pity helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “More than 87 percent of greenhouses have also been damaged.”

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No evidence was found to corroborate the specific figure of 87% of greenhouses being damaged.

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web search NEUTRAL — Map of the Gaza Strip in May 2005, a few months prior to the Israeli disengagement, with major Israeli settlements marked as the blue-shaded regions.An agreement was reached with Israel under internat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_the…

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web search NEUTRAL — Greenhouses covering one-fourth of the land were damaged during looting after the handover, according to Palestinian officials. The inherited farms have the potential to nearly double the output of th…
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/…

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web search NEUTRAL — Bassil Jabir was the CEO of the Palestine Economic Development Company (PED), the organization founded by the Palestinian Authority to take charge of the greenhouse project after it was turned over to…
https://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/propaganda-dehumanize-palesti…

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Claim 2: “Al-Halabi once owned a much bigger plot of farmland – around 40,000 square metres (about 10 acres) – in northern Gaza”

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The claim regarding the previous ownership of 40,000 square metres of land is not corroborated by any other source in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mohammad Bhar (Arabic: محمد بهار; 2000 – July 2024) was a 24-year-old Palestinian man with Down syndrome and autism who died after being mauled by an Israeli Oketz military dog in a Gaza Strip house d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Mohammad_Bhar

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, the targe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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Claim 3: “7,748 cattle, sheep and poultry farms have been destroyed.”

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No evidence was found regarding the specific number of livestock and poultry farms destroyed.

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web search NEUTRAL — Facebook - Wikipedia
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web search NEUTRAL — Facebook, owned by Meta, is a social networking platform connecting users worldwide through its web and mobile apps. Users share posts, photos and videos, message friends and family, join Groups, brow…
https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/

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web search NEUTRAL — Get started on Facebook Create an account to connect with friends, family and communities of people who share your interests. Name First name
https://www.facebook.com/r.php/

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Claim 4: “Al-Jadba received some funding from a Belgian development fund, which he used to build the greenhouse and obtain agricultural supplies.”

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No evidence was found for this claim after searching.

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Claim 5: “Mohammad al-Halabi, 50, bends over tomato and eggplant seedlings in a 300-square-metre plot in the middle of central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp”

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The specific detail about Mohammad al-Halabi tending a 300-square-metre plot in Nuseirat is found in one web search result. No other independent sources corroborate this specific personal narrative.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of 28 August 2026, at least 76,621 people (74,582+ Palestinians and 2,039+ Israelis) have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Fo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war

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Claim 6: “More than 87 percent of Gaza’s agricultural land has been destroyed.”

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One source mentions that 'Over 80 per cent of agricultural land in Gaza had been damaged as of March 2025', which is close to the 87% claim, but the specific 87% figure is not corroborated by a second independent source.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip is governed by Hamas which assumed control of the territory on 11 June 2007 after seizing it from the rival Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA). The Hamas administration was fir…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_under_Hamas

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 1956, the Gaza Strip was captured by Israel from Egypt for a period of four months during the Suez Crisis. Israel returned it back to Egypt in March 1957, due to heavy international pressure. Israe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_Gaza…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Arab Republic occupation of the Gaza Strip began in 1959 following the dissolution of the All-Palestine Protectorate, which had ruled the Gaza Strip as a client state of Egypt since the 194…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic_occupatio…

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Claim 7: “his monthly income has reached around 3,000 shekels [$1,015] a month.”

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Claim 8: “Al-Halabi says his entire farmland was bulldozed in February 2024 by Israeli forces, as part of their general destruction of Jabalia.”

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While Wikipedia confirms IDF operations in Jabalia, the specific claim that Mohammad al-Halabi's farmland was bulldozed in February 2024 is not corroborated by independent sources.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 9 October 2023, as part of the Gaza war, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted airstrikes in Jabalia refugee camp, saying it was a stronghold for Hamas and other militant groups. In Jabal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_Jabalia_refugee_cam…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli Air Force has conducted numerous concerted aerial bombardment campaigns on the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war. Since the de jure enactment of a ceasefire in October 2025, strikes have cont…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Gaza_St…

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Claim 9: “Annual vegetable and fruit production has fallen from about 524,000 tonnes to approximately 20,000.”

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No evidence was found to corroborate the specific production drop from 524,000 to 20,000 tonnes.

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web search NEUTRAL — Twenty-eight years of selecting for calving ease, growth, marbling and maternal traits have got them to the point where the best Angus bulls they can find are their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0opY07NDU8

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web search NEUTRAL — five tonnes of carbon dioxide per capita in 2008.
https://www.gapminder.org/tools/?from=world

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web search NEUTRAL — Around 30,000 tonnes of potatoes were produced while cultivated in 1,500 hectares of land in winter season. Potatoes alone worth nearly Rs. 2.5 billion have been produced in the district.
https://risingnepaldaily.com/news/47857

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Claim 10: “About 8,700 agricultural wells have also been destroyed and put out of service”

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The evidence mentions that 'almost all water wells have been destroyed' in North Gaza, but does not provide the specific number of 8,700 wells.

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Claim 11: “Mohammad Abdul Naser Hassan al-Jadba, 40, from Sheikh Ajleen in Gaza City, lost his source of income during the war after his farmland ended up on the wrong side of the “Yellow Line””

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No evidence was found for this claim after searching.

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