In the heart of Gaza’s shattered landscape, a grassroots initiative named “Our Food from Our Hands” is planting seeds of hope, resilience, and self-reliance. Launched in May 2025, this community-driven movement encourages families to transform small spaces, rooftops, courtyards, even containers, into gardens and poultry farms. Faced with a collapsing economy and blocked aid, Gazans are reclaiming food production to ease hunger and assert dignity amid the ongoing siege and destruction.

The initiative, led by experts and supported by hundreds of volunteers, focuses on vulnerable groups such as displaced families, women, children, and the elderly. It seeks not only to provide immediate relief but to revive a culture of local farming and self-sufficiency that can sustain Gaza’s population long-term. Despite severe shortages of water, soil, and veterinary supplies, the project explores innovative methods like hydroponics and compost-based agriculture, emphasising adaptation in the face of adversity.

More than a food programme, “Our Food from Our Hands” is a form of resistance, a refusal to surrender to the calculated starvation and devastation wrought by war. As over 80% of Gaza’s farmland lies destroyed and access to agricultural wells is cut off, this initiative is a vital act of defiance, nurturing life and community from the ruins of conflict.