Revive Gaza's Farmland Project
After October 7, the Israeli occupation tightened its siege on Gaza, closing all crossings and blocking the entry of regulated humanitarian aid trucks, which had averaged around 500 trucks per day before the war. For weeks, no trucks were allowed in at all, or only a very limited number, worsening the humanitarian crisis and hindering relief efforts. Prices surged sharply, in addition to the direct targeting of aid trucks, their crews, and civilians in their vicinity.
From the very first day of the war, the occupation targeted agricultural lands and facilities, first through bombing, then by bulldozing.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) assessed the damage to Gaza’s agricultural sector from the start of the war until the end of April 2025 as follows:
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80% of agricultural land in the Gaza Strip has been destroyed.
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82.8% of water wells have been destroyed.
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Gaza’s only port has been destroyed, along with a large number of barns, livestock farms (sheep and goats), broiler chicken farms, and dairy farms.
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More than 3,892,800 trees have been uprooted, including 1,620,000 olive trees, 100,000 date palms, and 2,172,800 fruit trees.
Today, more than two million people in Gaza continue to suffer from hunger and food insecurity, with half a million on the brink of starvation.
In response to the urgent pleas of Gaza’s farmers, we launched an emergency relief and development campaign in March 2024 to rehabilitate the agricultural sector and resist the starvation war—firm in our belief that the agricultural sector can regain its vitality if provided with essential production inputs.
To learn more about the Revive Gaza’s Farmland project, click here.
