- The first 120 days of the genocide in Gaza alone produced more emissions than 26 countries combined. The firs two months alone produced more emissions than 20 of the most climate-vulnerable countries.
- The projected cost of rebuilding Gaza is projected to produce more emissions than 135 countries combined.
- Gaza's potable water shortage is exacerbated by climate change & Israel's restrictions on materials/fuel.
- Sewage infiltrates Gaza's aquifer, flowing into coastal waters, damaging marine life.
- 97% of Gaza's water is unfit for human consumption; contaminated water causes 26% of illnesses, leading to child deaths.
- Israel restricts Palestinians from using 20% of Gaza's arable land near the militarized fence.
- Gaza's farmland was targeted with dangerous herbicides; the 2014 war may have caused extensive soil damage.
- In the West Bank, Israel controls over 60% of land; 640,000 Israelis reside in illegal settlements.
- Israeli settlers consume six times more water than the 2.9 million Palestinian residents.
- Israel has uprooted 800,000 olive trees in the West Bank since 1967.
- Palestinian agricultural communities face land and water seizures, along with climatic shifts.
- Jordan Valley, covering 30% of the West Bank, poses severe challenges for Palestinian farmers
Learn more:
- Gaza Summer School! Decolonizing Environmentalism
- Palestine Museum of Natural History
- How Israel uses trees to ethnically cleanse Palestine
- Palestine against an eco-apartheid world – Mondoweiss
- Palestine is a climate justice issue | Environment | Al Jazeera
- New study reveals substantial carbon emissions from the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict - Queen Mary University of London
- What Was Missing From COP 29: Toward an Anti-Militarist Climate Movement