Democratic Palestine : 12 (ص 16)

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Democratic Palestine : 12 (ص 16)

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Zionist settlers swarm to the West Bank
heat wave) crops may mature before the
time limit, thus resulting in a pile-up of
matured fruits and vegetables the far-
mers are unable to market.
In addition to this, according to Jor-
darian law, only 50% of the produce of
the occupied territories is allowed to
enter Jordan. Added to this is the fact
that the produce of the 1967 occupied
territories is not allowed to be marketed
in the areas occupied in 1948, while the
produce of Zionists’ agriculture is
allowed to be marketed in the 1967
areas as well as 1948 areas.
As was mentioned earlier, 90% of
the Gaza Strip’s export depends on the
citrus fruit crop. Thus it is just at the
major source of income that the Zionists
have begun to tighten the noose impos-
ing a series of measures on the Palesti-
nian farmer of the Gaza Strip:
1. Prohibition of digging new irrigation
wells and restrictions of the quantities of
water specified for irrigation of citrus
fruits.
2. The issue of a military command pro-
hibiting the planting of citrus fruits with-
out a permit from the military authorities.
3. The payment of bank loans is made
only in local currency and must be repaid
in dollars, this if the farmer is able to
obtain a bank loan in the first place.
4. Monopoly of wrapping and packaging
material and raising their cost which
increases the cost of produce.
5. Depriving the Gaza Strip of its tradi-
tional markets - countries of East Asia,
Britain, Holland and West Germany
where upon the Zionist authorities
demanded that the Strip’s marketing
should go through the channels of the
Council of Citrus Fruits which in turn
considers a large proportion of the Gaza
Strip’s produce not up to export stan-
dards.
And finally as is the case with the
West Bank, the Gaza Strip market is
flooded with competitive Zionist produce
on the other hand forbidding the market-
ing of the Gaza Strip’s produce outside
its locality.
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Democratic Palestine : 12

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