The gardener of Gaza: sowing hope by growing vegetables amid the rubble

The gardener of Gaza: sowing hope by growing vegetables amid the rubble

In Jabalia refugee camp, where fresh food is scarce, a family pours efforts for survival into a garden planted in the ruin of their home

In an old bathtub, plastic buckets, a tin can and other containers of all shapes and sizes foraged from the debris left by nearly a year of war, Mohammed Qomssan and his family grow the vegetables that are now a rare luxury in Gaza.

Their aubergines, jute, rocket and peppers are unlikely signs of green plant life in the Jabalia refugee camp – a once-bustling neighbourhood reduced to a landscape of concrete rubble and cratered roads by two Israeli Defense Force (IDF) ground operations.

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