Environmental Warfare in Gaza
Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance
Pluto Press · Print & ebook · February 20, 2024
The perimeter around the occupied Gaza Strip is formed by a sophisticated system of fences, forts, and surveillance technologies.
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- Who it’s for
- For readers interested in the environmental and human impact of warfare in Gaza
- Themes
- Environmental impacts of warfare, Settler-colonial violence, Palestinian land and resistance
- Genres
- Chemical & Biological Warfare, Israel & Palestine History, Colonialism & Its Aftermath
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The perimeter around the occupied Gaza Strip is formed by a sophisticated system of fences, forts, and surveillance technologies. With each Israeli incursion, a military no-go area, or a 'buffer zone', is established along Gaza's 'borders', extending deep into Palestinian residential areas and farmlands— further compounding the Gaza Strip's isolation from the rest of Palestine.
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Since 2014, the bulldozing of Palestinian lands by the Israeli occupation forces has been complemented by unannounced aerial spraying of military herbicides, extending the reach of Israeli violence into the realm of chemical warfare. Today, the spraying has destroyed entire swaths of arable land in Gaza, forcibly changing a once-lush Palestinian landscape, and providing the Israeli army with better visibility to fire at Palestinian targets with lethal force from a distance. This book is a vivid document of this latest stage of Israeli warfare, including original maps, images, and visualizations which deepen our understanding of its environmental and human impact. It collects new documents, original archival materials, stills of drone footage, first-hand testimonies of farmers, organizers and protesters, and documents affected vegetation in Gaza as 'silent witnesses' to Israeli settler-colonial violence.
Who it’s for
- For readers interested in the environmental and human impact of warfare in Gaza
- For readers interested in archival materials and first-hand testimonies from Gaza
Where it sits
| Israel & Palestine History | 54% |
|---|---|
| Chemical & Biological Warfare | 46% |
| Colonialism & Its Aftermath | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Museum Studies & Curation
- Museum Management
- Israel & Palestine History
- Military History
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- Chemical & Biological Warfare
- Ecology
- Conservation
- Human Rights
- Authors
- Shourideh C. Molavi
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Published
- February 20, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Environmental impacts of warfare · Settler-colonial violence · Palestinian land and resistance
- Reading lane
- Museum Studies & Curation