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Gaza's Beekeepers in Sticky Spot

As spring begins, Gaza's beekeepers face a decline in production due to urban sprawl and a lack of official interest, reports Hazem Balousha.
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In an agricultural area teeming with orange trees in the Tufah neighborhood east of Gaza City, Imad Ghazal lifts honeycombs out of his beehives, which produce the combs throughout the year. He will move them to a machine for extracting the honey, which is then put into cans of different sizes and sold in the local markets.

Ghazal began working as a beekeeper more than 20 years ago. He had previously spent several years working in the same field in Israeli beekeeping farms, during which time he pursued a degree in theoretical and practical beekeeping and honey production at the Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research.

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