On 23 December, Raed Qaadan went to harvest his strawberry crops.
The 47-year-old’s land is in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip and adjacent to the barrier separating Gaza and Israel.
At some point, he and his oldest son, Sameeh, 22, noticed Israeli soldiers in three bulldozers heading toward their lands. They didn’t imagine they would destroy their agricultural land.
“We were shocked when they approached and started bulldozing the lands. We tried to stop them by holding up white flags, but they didn’t,” Qaadan told The Electronic Intifada.
They also, he said, took their time, digging, leveling and flattening.
— source electronicintifada.net | Yasmin Abusayma | 4 Feb 2022