By August 2024, nearly half of Gaza’s working animals had been killed in the Israeli war on the enclave, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
People transport bodies of victims on a donkey-pulled cart, following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on November 17, 2024. / Photo: AFP
Displaced Palestinian in Gaza fleeing fighting or air strikes pile aboard them to rush to safety with their belongings.Marwa Yess uses a donkey cart to get around with her family. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 43 percent of Gaza's working animals — a category that includes donkeys, horses and mules —had been killed in the war by August 2024, leaving only 2,627 alive.
"I used to sell vegetables on a cart before the war. Now, I work in delivery," he said, lamenting that"the donkey panics when the bombing gets too close"."I make sure to feed it well, even though the price of barley has gone up from three shekels to 50 shekels," he said.Israel imposed a total siege on Gaza in the early stages of the war last year, complicating aid and goods distribution.
Yusef Muhammad, a 23-year-old displaced from Gaza's north to Khan Younis in the south, said his donkey has become a"lifeline" for his family. When Israeli military evacuation orders, which usually precede fighting and bombing, send thousands of people and their belongings onto the road in an instant, donkey carts can be one of the only ways out of danger.
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