Main entry:

Molavi, Shourideh C., author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2024.
©2024

Description:

xii, 117 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-117).
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 -- Acknowledgments -- Tribute to a loved friend: Rosdi Yahya al-Sarraj (1992-2023).

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.

ISBN:

9780745344577
0745344577
epdf
9780745344614
epub
9780745344591

Subject:

War Environmental aspects.
Environmental degradation.
Arab-Israeli conflict 1993- Environmental aspects.
Guerre Aspect de l'environnement.
Environnement Dégradation.
Conflit israélo-arabe 1993- Aspect de l'environnement.
Gaza Strip Environmental conditions.
Gaza, Bande de Conditions environnementales.

Added entries:

Weizman, Eyal, writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322455
Call No.: 322455
Copy: 1
Status: Available