Dozens of Palestinian farmers rallied on Monday at the Jalama checkpoint north of Jenin protesting Israel’s ban on the export of vegetables to territories occupied in 1948.
Palestinian farmer Ahmad Saba’na said the ban has resulted in financial damage as hundreds of kilograms of fruits and vegetables have been piled up for eight days running.
He added that hundreds of farmers are on the verge of going bankrupt due to the Israeli measures.
Some eight days ago the Israeli minister of agriculture ruled that vegetable delivery into Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 be banned in response to a decision by the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture outlawing the import of sheep from illegal Israeli settlement outposts built on occupied Palestinian land.
