Inside a Palestinian family’s homemade cigarette industry - in pictures

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  Hussein Atatarah stands holding a cigarette he rolled in the courtyard of the family’s home in Zbouba.

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  Palestinian field workers. Rama, 19, smokes as he collects tobacco leaves. He works for the Atatarah family who produce cigarettes.

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  Hussein Atatarah, the patriarch of the family as he rolls a cigarette with the tobacco the family produces in the Palestinian village of Zbouba near the city of Jenin on August 24,2015. All generations in the family help and work in the family’s cottage tobacco industry helping to produce their final product ,cigarettes .

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  Tobacco leaves drying in the fields at the entrance to the Palestinian village of Zbouba.

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  A member of the Atatarah family carries tobacco leaves to be dried in a shed in the courtyard.

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  One of the Atatarah family members hangs bunches of spiked tobacco leaves to be dried further in the shed of the family’s home

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  All generations in the Atatarah family help and work in the family’s cottage tobacco industry helping to produce their final product ,cigarettes.

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  Hashem Atatarah, with his father Hussein, unload a car full of dried tobacco leaves.

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  Mustafa, a Palestinian tobacco farmer, collects leaves from his plants.

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  Palestinian field workers Rama (right) and Mohanned carry large tobacco plants as they harvest the leaves for drying.

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  Palestinian workers Rama and Mohanned hang the tobacco leaves they have just harvested amongst neat rows of leaves drying outside the home of the Atatarah family.

For the Atatarah family, tobacco farming is a family effort. Every generation helps with the growing, harvesting and drying of tobacco leaves in their Zbouba home, near the city of Jenin.

All photos by Heidi Levine for The National