Small-scale projects offer hope for Gaza farmers rebuilding lives

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.

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 Gaz...