Environmental Warfare in Gaza : Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance / Shourideh C. Molavi ; foreword by Eyal Weizman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molavi, Shourideh C., author.

Contributor:

Weizman, Eyal, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Environmental aspects.

War.

Environmental degradation.

Gaza Strip--Environmental conditions.

Gaza Strip.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, [2024]

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword by Eyal Weizman

Note on language

Introduction-Colonial legacies of farm warfare

1 Reconfiguration of biopolitical landscapes in Palestine

2 The disappearing trees of Gaza

3 The Al-Shawwa Citrus Export Company

4 Israeli herbicidal warfare as colonial practice

Conclusion-Sowing new landscapes of resistance

Acknowledgments

Tribute to a loved friend: Roshdi Yahya al-Sarraj (1992-2023)

Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780745344591

0745344593

9780745344614

0745344615

OCLC:

1419869893