In Gaza, farmers are working on whatever scraps of land remain to restore food production for a population of 2.1 million people, even as venturing into open fields can prove fatal. Saqer Abu Rabee, a farmer in Beit Lahiya (a historically fertile area in northern Gaza once known as the territory's food basket), lost his eldest son and his brother while they were tending or accessing agricultural plots; despite daily threats and encroaching Israeli military lines that have swallowed up recently cultivated farmland, he continues to grow and distribute seedlings that have helped push local vegetable prices to a fraction of their earlier levels. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that only about 3% of Gaza's prewar cropland remains undamaged and immediately cultivable, and warns that without a revival of domestic food production, the fragile relief from last year's famine conditions cannot hold — with 1.4 million people still facing crisis levels of acute food insecurity.