(17 Jan 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Metula, Israel - 7 January 2024
1. View of community in northern Israel UPSOUND: Explosion
HEADLINE: Farmers and fields struggle in Northern Israel
2. Road signs reading (English/Hebrew): (left) Qiryat Shmona (right) Metula UPSOUND: Explosion
ANNOTATION: Farmers in northern Israel are struggling to care for their fields and orchards as tensions with Hezbollah remain high on the border with Lebanon.
3. Wide of orchard
4. Wide of Moshe Weinstein, a farmer from Metula, walking in his apple orchard
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Moshe Weinstein, farmer from Metula:
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“I have pink lady apple orchards, I don't have the possibility to pick them, to look at them. All the fruit is on the floor. We have kiwis, we have pecans, we have granny smith apples. Everything, some on the tree, has already disintegrated, the majority is on the floor. There is no going out and no coming. No one knows what is happening in the fields.”
6. Apples on trees
7. Various of rotten apples on the ground
8. Wide of Moshe with a tree UPSOUND (Hebrew) Moshe Weinstein showing marks on broken tree: “Here, here, here and here a large piece of shrapnel tore off the whole arm of the tree, and here you see the marks of the iron of the missile.”
9. Tracking shot of apple orchard
ANNOTATION: Half of Israel’s produce comes from farms about 3 miles from the Lebanese border, according to Israeli financial paper Globes.
10. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Moshe Weinstein, farmer from Metula:
“We need to start spraying the plantations and pruning them. We have varieties that are supposed to be picked at the end of May, June. We need to start spraying them, we still didn't prune them, we didn't spray the weeds, we didn't do anything. Everything will go down the drain. Now, this is not a one-year damage. When you don't pick the Pink Lady it's damage for two or three years."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Binyamina, Israel - 8 January 2024
11. Wide of Dr. Omer Crane, agriculture expert at Migal institute
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Omer Crane, Migal institute:
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“The main problem we have with this war is that we cannot reach the plantations, that is one thing, and the second thing is that the workers left. A lot of Thai workers that used to work in the north, they left back to Thailand, a lot of local workers, some of them left their houses, they are now living in other places, and some of them are afraid to come and to work within the fields.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Margaliot, Israel - 6 January 2024
13. Wide of town
ANNOTATION: In Margaliot, about 20 minutes from the apple orchard in Metula, one of Israel’s largest poultry farms is seeing decreased production of eggs.
14. Tracking shot of empty road
15. UPSOUND (Hebrew) Yoni Davidi, farmer from Margaliot:
"We are currently in the center of the village, as you can see, deserted, there are no cars, no people, there is nothing, no traffic, nothing, an empty village.”
16. Various of poultry farmer Yoni Davidi in his chicken coop collecting eggs, armed with an assault rifle
17. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yoni Davidi, farmer from Margaliot:
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"We are coming super fast, quickly collect the eggs. We see a decrease in laying, we see smaller eggs, we see a lot of breakage and it's not easy.”
18. Various of Davidi walking in his orchard
ANNOTATION: Drones can be heard above as he tends his farm. Israel’s north has experienced frequent rocket attacks from Lebanon since October
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