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Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Killing over 30,000 people makes the world shrug their collective shoulders.

Do you think Israel causing environmental destruction would sway people to think differently?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No but international treaties love their technicalities, and this might be one that could be used to at least tame the slaughter somewhat. Saudis were recently appointed chair of UN gender equality, and the hope is that it forces them to behave somewhat at least for the sake of optics.

"Yes we kill and maim, but we care!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

@ininewcrow my feeling is that we in the international community are collecting evidence of war crimes against the possible day when the genocidaires can be brought to justice.

That day may not come for another 30, 40 or 50 years but I deeply hope that it will come eventually.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Lmfao. This feels so tone deaf

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I love how human life matters so little to the capitalist they have to make it about property in a desperate attempt to get them to listen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Yes it does. It's one amongst at least half a dozen war crimes that the Israeli apartheid regime is actively committing with the full support (except for a disingenuous "could you guys cool it, please?" once in a while) of the US government.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Uh... Yes. Yes it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Olive groves and farms have been reduced to packed earth; soil and groundwater have been contaminated by munitions and toxins; the sea is choked with sewage and waste; the air polluted by smoke and particulate matter.

Researchers used satellite imagery to document a repeated process in multiple locations, she says: after initial damage from aerial bombardment, ground troops arrived and dismantled greenhouses completely, while tractors, tanks and vehicles uprooted orchards and fields of crops.

FA’s investigation examined one farm in rast Jabalia, close to Gaza’s north-east border, cultivated by the Abu Suffiyeh family for the past decade.

The continuing conflict and siege conditions have resulted in the total collapse of Gaza’s already fragile civil infrastructure, including waste disposal, sewage treatment, fuel supplies and water management.

Impromptu landfills have sprouted around the territory as the volume of uncollected rubbishmounts; Unrwa, the UN refugee agency for Palestinians, which collects refuse in camps, is unable to operate.

The scale and long-term impact of the destruction have led to calls for it to be investigated as a potential war crime, and to be classed as ecocide, which covers damage done to the environment by deliberate or negligent actions.


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