Hebron Craftsman Builds Farm Machines Despite Israeli Raids and Tool Seizures

HEBRON, West Bank /PNN /

What began as a childhood dream for Imad Abu Turki, a Palestinian craftsman from the city of Hebron, has become a lifelong journey of invention, resilience, and quiet defiance. Now an elderly man living with chronic back and joint pain from years of hard labour, Abu Turki proudly continues to build agricultural harvesting machines by hand—machines that he once repaired, then improved, and now manufactures himself from scratch.

At just 15 years…