How it all started?

This story was originally published in the Telegraph.
Every year when the sun sets during Ramadan, Muslims break our fast with a date – just as the Prophet Mohammed did.
But this Ramadan in Gaza, where lack of food is forcing families to eat leaves and animal food to survive, there will be no dates to break the fast. Date harvesting, along with other food production, has been completely decimated. And as part of their restrictions on aid crossing into the Strip, Israeli authorities are reportedly classifying dates as “dual-use” items – which they say could be repurposed for military use – and rejected, due to x-ray imaging picking up their seeds as suspicious objects.