In a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, a seventy-one-year-old agronomist and his daughter are doing what human beings have done in the face of erasure for millennia: saving seeds. What Salama Ayesh Muhanna and Hanadi tend is not merely a collection of plant varieties but a living archive of Palestinian identity, rebuilt from rubble after the destruction of their original facility, now serving over two hundred farmers across a territory where 1.2 million people face acute hunger. The act of preserving a seed is, in this context, an act of sovereignty — a quiet insistence that a people's relat
Gaza seed bank preserves hope and food sovereignty amid humanitarian crisis
1.2 million people in Gaza face acute food insecurity; farming remains dangerous due to unexploded ordnance and restricted land access; psychological toll on farmers from ongoing conflict.