The north used to be the breadbasket of the Gaza Strip.

Strawberry fields in Beit Lahia, olive and citrus groves, wheat fields, and the agricultural university in Beit Hanoun.

It seems impossible even to imagine that now.

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Image: The land is barren and cropless

We flew down across the northern border on a Royal Jordanian Air Force plane, with a meagre eight tons of humanitarian aid ready to go.

Eight tons, when the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the body that has classified Gaza as being on the brink of famine, estimates the population needs 2,038 tons daily.

Image: The plane carried eight tons of aid

What was once cropland is barren and scorched. Villages and agricultural structures are in ruins.

There was a ragged uniformity to the

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