Flower picking

A Palestinian worker collects carnations at a flower farm in Rafah in the southern <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEOREG0000028" title="Gaza Strip" href="/topic/intl/gaza-strip-PLGEOREG0000028.topic">Gaza Strip</a> after <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO0000010" title="Israel" href="/topic/intl/israel-PLGEO0000010.topic">Israel</a> granted special approval for exporting limited quantities of Palestinian flowers from the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="EVHST000097120" title="Gaza Crisis (2008)" href="/topic/unrest-conflicts-war/gaza-crisis-%282008%29-EVHST000097120.topic">Gaza</a> Strip to the European market. Sealed off from the outside world, Gaza's farmers are entering their fifth year of export restrictions, imposed by Israel after the Islamist <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORCIG0000058" title="Hamas" href="/topic/politics/hamas-ORCIG0000058.topic">Hamas</a> party took control of the impoverished strip.

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( Said Khatib, AFP/Getty Images / February 8, 2012 )

A Palestinian worker collects carnations at a flower farm in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip after Israel granted special approval for exporting limited quantities of Palestinian flowers from the Gaza Strip to the European market. Sealed off from the outside world, Gaza's farmers are entering their fifth year of export restrictions, imposed by Israel after the Islamist Hamas party took control of the impoverished strip.

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