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GAZA STRIP / POST CEASEFIRE RECOVERY

28.01.2025. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomes the ceasefire in Gaza and is ready to deliver emergency agricultural aid. FAO is actively engaged with UN agencies and other partners in collective efforts to prepare for the early recovery and reconstruction phase in Gaza.

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Date 01/28/2025

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Shotlist STORY: GAZA STRIP / POST CEASEFIRE RECOVERY
TRT: 04:36
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT FAO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 DECEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP / 20 JANUARY 2025, ROME, ITALY

SHOTLIST:

11 DECEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP

1. Pan left, destroyed greenhouses and agricultural infrastructure next to cultivated fields
2. Pan right, destroyed greenhouses
3. Wide shot, destroyed agricultural warehouse
4. Med shot, farmer at work with destroyed greenhouses in the background

FILE, ROME, ITALY

5. Wide shot, FAO headquarters

20 JANUARY 2025, ROME, ITALY

6. Wide shot, Beth Bechdol, FAO Deputy Director-General, in her office looking at the geospatial assessment
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO:
"This long-awaited ceasefire finally provides a critical opportunity to address the catastrophic food crisis in Gaza by really enabling emergency aid delivery and initiating, finally, early recovery efforts. But this is just the beginning of a long journey to recover from the devastation. I think it’s clear, and we all know, that we still need this peace to be sustained, and we need access to meet the immense needs of the people of Gaza and to ensure no one is left behind there."
8. Med shot, Beth Bechdol, FAO Deputy Director-General, in her office reading the geospatial assessment
9. Pan right, screens showing the geospatial assessment
10. Maps, showing cropland damage from October 2023 to December 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO:
"The damage caused to Gaza’s agricultural sector is both devastating and overwhelming. There has been widespread destruction of vital agricultural infrastructure and machinery, and I think it’s safe to say that agrifood systems have largely collapsed. More than 70 percent of fields once used to grow crops, such as potatoes and carrots, as well as olive trees and fruit orchards, have been damaged or are fully destroyed."

11 DECEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP

12. Pan right, destroyed agricultural warehouse
13. Med shot, bags containing dates
14. Close up, date paste production FAO project plate
15. Wide shot, FAO staff assessing damages to the Palestine Dates Company facilities
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Intisar Abu Mandil, agro-entrepreneur and former FAO project participant, Palestine Dates company:
"Our lives are currently extremely difficult. Since October 7, we have faced a lot of challenges and hardships. Our workplace was completely destroyed. We lost our main source of food production, about 1 000 palm trees, and everything we worked on and invested in has been lost or destroyed. All our efforts in food production have been in vain."
17. Pan left, FAO staff assessing damages inside a greenhouse
18. Med shot, farmer at work
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Oudai Issa Abdelrahman AlFaleet, farmer and former FAO project participant:
"As farmers, my family, siblings, and I received a project grant from FAO in 2021 or 2022 for approximately eight dunams (8 000 square meters) worth of greenhouses. They were installed, and we started working on them, but the war disrupted everything. Two dunams (2 000 square meters) of these greenhouses were bulldozed, and the remaining six were damaged. The water source, which is the well, and the agricultural warehouse, including its contents and inputs, were destroyed."
20. Med shot, FAO staff assessing damages
21. Pan left, destroyed greenhouses and agricultural infrastructure

20 JANUARY 2025, ROME, ITALY

22. SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO:
"Recovery efforts will have to prioritize rebuilding agrifood infrastructure. This means greenhouses, water wells, solar systems, and a full scaling up of critical agricultural inputs. These complementary actions to strengthen resilience represent a really critical bridge between short-term activities and longer-term development interventions to help communities rebuild and recover from crises, such as this one. They are also critical because they restore hope, and they uphold the Right to Food."

11 DECEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP

23. Tracking shot, destroyed buildings

Script The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomes the ceasefire in Gaza and is ready to deliver emergency agricultural aid. FAO is actively engaged with UN agencies and other partners in collective efforts to prepare for the early recovery and reconstruction phase in Gaza.

SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO:
"This long-awaited ceasefire finally provides a critical opportunity to address the catastrophic food crisis in Gaza by really enabling emergency aid delivery and initiating, finally, early recovery efforts. But this is just the beginning of a long journey to recover from the devastation. I think it’s clear, and we all know, that we still need this peace to be sustained, and we need access to meet the immense needs of the people of Gaza and to ensure no one is left behind there."

The 15-month conflict has led to severe food insecurity for the entire population of the Gaza Strip, with communities on the brink of starvation and more than 2 million people in urgent need of assistance.

The latest geospatial assessment carried out by FAO and the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) between October and December 2024 reveals that the extent of the damage to Gaza's agricultural land has reached unprecedented levels.

Seventy-five percent of fields once used to grow crops, as well as olive tree and fruit orchards, have been damaged or destroyed. Over two-thirds of agricultural wells (1,531 in total) are no longer functional, crippling irrigation. Livestock losses are staggering, with 96 percent of cattle lost or slaughtered, milk production has nearly halted and only 1 percent of poultry remains alive. The fishing sector is also on the brink of collapse, further worsening food insecurity.

SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO:
"The damage caused to Gaza’s agricultural sector is both devastating and overwhelming. There has been widespread destruction of vital agricultural infrastructure and machinery, and I think it’s safe to say that agrifood systems have largely collapsed. More than 70 percent of fields once used to grow crops, such as potatoes and carrots, as well as olive trees and fruit orchards, have been damaged or are fully destroyed."

The governorate of Khan Younis had the largest number of damaged agricultural infrastructures.

Agro-entrepreneur, Intisar Abu Mandil, from the Palestine Dates Company, explains that the 41 women who worked for the company before the conflict have lost their only source of income after all the palm trees and the main company facilities have been destroyed.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Intisar Abu Mandil, agro-entrepreneur and former FAO project participant, Palestine Dates Company:
"Our lives are currently extremely difficult. Since October 7, we have faced a lot of challenges and hardships. Our workplace was completely destroyed. We lost our main source of food production, about 1 000 palm trees, and everything we worked on and invested in has been lost or destroyed. All our efforts in food production have been in vain."

Before the start of the conflict, agriculture accounted for 10.5 percent of Gaza’s economy, with more than 560,000 people relying entirely or partially on cropping, herding or fishing for their livelihoods. Gaza's agriculture and fisheries exports amounted to USD 67.3 million in 2022, primarily fresh crops such as strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, sweet peppers, and fresh fish.

Oudai Issa Abdelrahman AlFaleet, a 31-year-old farmer from Khan Younis, explains that most of his agricultural facilities, including the water well and greenhouses have been heavily impacted by the conflict. As a result, the food production is reduced by 80 percent compared to pre-conflict times.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Oudai Issa Abdelrahman AlFaleet, farmer and former FAO project participant: "As farmers, my family, siblings, and I received a project grant from FAO in 2021 or 2022 for approximately eight dunams (8 000 square meters) worth of greenhouses. They were installed, and we started working on them, but the war disrupted everything. Two dunams (2 000 square meters) of these greenhouses were bulldozed, and the remaining six were damaged. The water source, which is the well, and the agricultural warehouse, including its contents and inputs, were destroyed."

FAO is procuring greenhouse plastic sheets, vaccines, energy blocks, and plastic sheds for animals to support the rehabilitation of critical agricultural and food infrastructure. On 23 January, two trucks carrying a total of 30 tonnes of barley fodder were loaded in Egypt and en route to enter Gaza. A remaining 70 tonnes of barley awaiting approval for loading in Egypt, while around 2,200 tonnes of fodder concentrate are set to enter Gaza via Israel .

SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO:
"Recovery efforts will have to prioritize rebuilding agrifood infrastructure. This means greenhouses, water wells, solar systems, and a full scaling up of critical agricultural inputs. These complementary actions to strengthen resilience represent a really critical bridge between short-term activities and longer-term development interventions to help communities rebuild and recover from crises such as this one. They are also critical because they restore hope, and they uphold the Right to Food."

As of 13 January 2025, FAO had distributed fodder to approximately 4,800 livestock holders from all governorates of the Gaza Strip and veterinary kits to about 2,400 herder families.

In the immediate future, FAO is seeking USD 74.5 million to assist 154,100 farmers, herders, and fisher men and women with emergency agricultural inputs and technical support, assuming continued stability provided by the ceasefire and improved access and delivery conditions.

FAO is also prepared to reactivate the field implementation of projects put on hold due to the conflict when conditions allow. This will inject around USD 20 million into the local economy to support the rehabilitation efforts of farmers, livestock herders and fisher men and women.

Investing in agriculture can restore dignity, ensure nutritious food, and lay the foundation for a resilient, self-reliant agrifood system in Gaza.

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