Gaza’s honey industry faces collapse under Israel’s genocide

Gaza’s beekeeping sector is facing the risk of collapse as Israel’s genocidal war has destroyed apiaries, wiped out vegetation and prevented beekeepers from reaching key grazing areas in the eastern Gaza Strip. According to 2025 data from the Cooperative Society of Beekeepers in Gaza, the honey production and beekeeping sector has suffered losses estimated at around $39 million since October 2023. The society said nearly 30,000 beehives were destroyed. Before the war, those hives supplied Gaza’s local market with around 380 to 400 tons of honey annually. The damage also affected livelihoods across the sector, with Israel destroying more than 85% of vegetation and forest grazing areas, leaving more than 6,000 workers without jobs and harming the income of 905 […]