BEIRUT March 20. 2024 (Saba) - Lebanon has confirmed that the Zionist bombing caused severe damage to the agricultural sector, as at least 6,000 hectares of agricultural land were directly damaged.
According to Lebanese media, Lebanese Minister of Agriculture Abbas Hajj Hassan said that “the Zionist entity’s attacks are not limited to human losses that are absolutely irreplaceable. The Israeli bombing has caused severe damage to the agricultural sector, through which at least 6,000 hectares of agricultural land have been severely damaged, directly and 2000 completely. It also destroyed 60,000 olive trees, some of which were 300 years old, as well as citrus, banana, and almond trees, as well as fruitful and non-fruitful trees, and vast areas of dunams were completely destroyed.”
He stressed that “Israel eliminated an entire sector, and if some estimates say two and a half billion dollars, I say much more than this number, if we count the direct and indirect damages to the Lebanese national economy first, and to the national gross domestic product second, and this matter led to the prices of vegetables produced at this time of year increase ...."
He added “Through its devastating bombing of the agricultural sector, Israel seeks to achieve two unparalleled things: the first is to break the will of the southerners to leave their land and move away from it, leading to the shaking of the front, and secondly to turn the lands into scorched earth and to eliminate vegetation because it considers that with military tactics the resistance and the Lebanese army become Exposed to the marches and the Israeli Air Force.”
Hajj Hassan announced “The Ministry of Agriculture launched a project, in place of every olive tree that was burned by the Israeli entity, we will plant ten trees. In addition to the orientation on the issue of export, priority will be given to the southern product, to tell our people in the south that what enhances their survival and steadfastness is also facilitating and distributing their products in a way that it should be a priority.” This sector differs from other products in the rest of the Lebanese regions, and I believe that all Lebanese believe that it is a basic and necessary way out of this plight that the country is experiencing.”
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resource : Saba
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