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Israel undercuts Palestinian agriculture with cheap produce

Israel is flooding Palestinian markets with large quantities of agricultural products with the aim to ruin the Palestinian agricultural seasons.

A Palestinian woman collects grapes to make Grape Malban, a mixture of grapes and semolina, at Halhoul village, near Hebron, West Bank, Sept. 4, 2020.
A Palestinian woman collects grapes to make Grape Malban, a mixture of grapes and semolina, at Halhoul village, near Hebron, West Bank, Sept. 4, 2020. — Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images

Palestinians complain that Israel is razing and burning agricultural crops, and undercutting the agricultural sector on which farmers depend with less expensive goods. 

Some of the main seasons during which Israel deliberately inflicts financial losses on farmers are the grape and olive seasons; it floods the Palestinian markets in the West Bank with large quantities of those fruits at cheaper prices, hindering Palestinian production and encouraging Palestinian economic dependence on Israel.

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