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Environmental warfare in Gaza : colonial violence and new landscapes of resistance  Cover Image Book Book

Environmental warfare in Gaza : colonial violence and new landscapes of resistance / Shourideh C. Molavi ; foreword by Eyal Weizman.

Summary:

"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." --publisher's description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0745344577
  • ISBN: 9780745344577
  • Physical Description: 117 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: London ; Pluto Press, [2024]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-117).
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Colonial legacies of farm warfare -- Reconfiguration of biopolitical landscapes in Palestine -- The disappearing trees of Gaza -- The Al-Shawwa Citrus Export Company -- Israeli herbicidal warfare as colonial practice -- Conclusion: Sowing new landscapes of resistance.
Subject: Israeli-Palestinian conflict > 1993- > Environmental aspects.
Herbicides > War use > Israel.
Herbicides > War use > Gaza Strip.
Gaza War, 2023- > Environmental aspects.
Israel-Hamas War, 2023- > Environmental aspects.
Gaza Strip > Environmental conditions > 21st century.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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