A Palestinian woman prepares sheets of "malban", or fruit leather made from dried grapes, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 8, 2020. Picture taken September 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma
HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian grape farmers are boasting a bumper crop this year, helped in part by coronavirus lockdowns that gave many of them more time to till their vines in the occupied West Bank.
But the pandemic's economic ravages have also slashed sales of the fruit, depressing the hilly breadbasket region of Hebron.
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