Foreign volunteers replace workers who fled Israeli farms under fire
Rather than stretch out under the Caribbean sun, Mark Landsman has been spending his vacation picking tomatoes in Israel, unpaid and in striking range of Palestinian rockets. The New Jersey man, among thousands of foreigners who have come to southern Israeli farms emptied of labourers by more than three months of war in the Gaza Strip, sees volunteering as an act of solidarity at a crucial time. Farmers and their mostly Thai and Nepalese labourers were among the victims of the Oct. 7 killing and kidnapping rampage by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen from Gaza that triggered the war.
Source: yahoo.com
