Environmental warfare in Gaza : colonial violence and new landscapes of resistance / Shourideh C. Molavi.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2024Description: 136 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745344577 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Arab-Israeli conflict -- Environmental aspects. -- 1993- | Asian history | Chemical & biological weapons | Social impact of environmental issues | Museology & heritage studies | War crimes | Israel | Palestine | Sociology | Human rights, civil rights | Middle Eastern history | Colonialism & imperialism | Military history | Applied ecology | Conservation of the environment | Politics & government | Management & management techniques | Herbicides -- War use -- Gaza Strip | History | Gaza Strip -- Environmental conditionsDDC classification: 956.943055 LOC classification: DS119.76 | .M6 2024Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Introduction-Colonial Legacies of Farm Warfare -- -- Chapter One-ReconfigurationofBiopolitical Landscapes in Palestine -- -- Chapter Two-The Disappearing TreesofGaza -- -- Chapter Three-The Al-Shawwa Citrus Export Company -- -- Chapter Four-Israeli Herbicidal Warfare as Colonial Practice -- -- -- Conclusion-Sowing New LandscapesofResistance
Israel is destroying both lives and livelihoods as it decimates the fertile lands of Palestine 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. 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 visualisations 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, organisers and protesters, and documents affected vegetation in Gaza as 'silent witnesses' to Israeli settler-colonial violence.
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