03:51State of Palestine: Home bio-gas system helps Palestinian farmers regain autonomy
The International Committee of the Red Cross is leading a project that aims at boosting farming activities in Palestine by installing home gas converting systems to ten farmer families located along the Palestinian-Israeli border.
Footage from Sunday in Rafah shows how the family of Sabha and Soleman Al-Salameen has been affected by this initiate.
According to Sabha, this project has "saved us a lot of money," because gas is a big issue in the area and often in the past they couldn't find fuel or wood for the cooking stove.
"It saved us a lot of money. We were filling gas two times a month and now it is available here every day," Soleman said, adding that seven kilos (15 pounds) of fertilizers and seven litres (14.8 pints) of water are enough for the system to produce gas daily.
Suheir Zaqout, spokesperson of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), explained that this "pilot project" aims at "distributing home bio-gas system units to ten farmers in the border area, between Gaza and Israel, the mostly affected people by the current conflict in the Gaza Strip."
According to her, farming vegetables is the main agricultural activity in the area and this project wants to "promote the culture of safe crops, safe agriculture and also to promote the culture of the clean energy, to help and solving the solid waste problem in the Gaza Strip."
03:51The International Committee of the Red Cross is leading a project that aims at boosting farming activities in Palestine by installing home gas converting systems to ten farmer families located along the Palestinian-Israeli border.
Footage from Sunday in Rafah shows how the family of Sabha and Soleman Al-Salameen has been affected by this initiate.
According to Sabha, this project has "saved us a lot of money," because gas is a big issue in the area and often in the past they couldn't find fuel or wood for the cooking stove.
"It saved us a lot of money. We were filling gas two times a month and now it is available here every day," Soleman said, adding that seven kilos (15 pounds) of fertilizers and seven litres (14.8 pints) of water are enough for the system to produce gas daily.
Suheir Zaqout, spokesperson of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), explained that this "pilot project" aims at "distributing home bio-gas system units to ten farmers in the border area, between Gaza and Israel, the mostly affected people by the current conflict in the Gaza Strip."
According to her, farming vegetables is the main agricultural activity in the area and this project wants to "promote the culture of safe crops, safe agriculture and also to promote the culture of the clean energy, to help and solving the solid waste problem in the Gaza Strip."