To be a farmer at the Gaza strip border is to face dangers and challenges that have nothing to do with the core of their work. Besides the air, sea, land total blockade that is isolating the territory and strongly limiting the movement of people and goods for 11 years, Israel established a buffer zone along the border.
In practice, this means that 17% of Gaza’s land is submitted to restricted access. To be walking between 100 and 1500 meters from the border may be dramatically dangerous. As 35% of the agricultural lands are in this area, many farmers can no longer work on their own land and are forced to rent some other land elsewhere. This is the case of R., 56 years old. He owns land along the border but had to rent some other parcel further away.
https://www.972mag.com/the-myth-of-the-gaza-border/