Palestinians return to farming as war halts Israeli work permits
Hussein Jamil, who held a permit to work in Israel for 22 years until the war in Gaza broke out, swears he will never go back to work in the country after setting up greenhouses in Bayt Dajan, near Nablus. In the northern West Bank's commercial capital, dozens of men have returned to the traditional pursuit of working on the land, rather than board buses to the queues and heavily guarded checkpoints that lead into Israel.
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00:00I am not a refugee, I am a human being, I am a human being, I am a human being, I am
00:30a human being, I am a human being, I am a human being, I am a human being, I am a human
01:00being, I am a human being.
01:30I have a family of seven, and I spend a lot on my family.
01:35We faced two things.
01:38We faced the low price, but we were really happy with the low price,
01:43because everyone is a citizen and has no money to buy.
01:47Now the price has changed, and it is very good.
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