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Violating IDF order, Negev farmers till their land during Israel-Gaza conflict

GOC Southern Command forbids entrance to fields in Eshkol Regional Council, where most of Israel's potatoes are grown, but farmers continue entering fields to irrigate, spray and fertilize their crops.

By Yanir Yagna | 01:00 20.11.12 |

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Farmers near the Gaza Strip say they have to violate a military order to work their fields since Operation Pillar of Defense began six days ago.

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It is a scurvy prohibition.
- By Spud Murphy
- 23 Nov 2012
- 00:04AM
Boiled, they have lots of vitamin C.
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- 20 Nov 2012
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I would imagine that if they're on the Gaza side that the IDF would have shot them
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- 20 Nov 2012
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This probably represents the choice of cultivating now rather than starving later when there is no crop.
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