GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The strawberry harvest season in the Gaza Strip is underway. Farmers call the fruit “red gold” given the high revenues they make from exporting it to foreign markets between December and April every year.
Russia is preparing to import the first cargo of strawberries from Gaza for the first time, according to Ahmed al-Shafey, the CEO of the Gaza Agricultural Cooperative for Producing & Marketing, which specializes in planting and exporting agricultural products.