Israel recently damaged Lebanon’s vital Qaraoun Dam, raising fears of a structural failure. Experts say the attack reflects Israel’s long-standing ambition to control Lebanon’s water — and mirrors the water apartheid it imposes on Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers “prevented us from even passing near [our own land], then they bulldozed it all… They left us with nothing to live on.” Israeli forces have bulldozed hundreds of olive trees in the West Bank.
In the Syrian governorate of Quneitra, Israel is seizing land, attacking and abducting residents, mauling them with army dogs, and spraying chemical agents over farmland. The Syrian government remains silent.
“What is happening right now is [the] erasure of humans, trees and stones, and anything that is Palestinian, by settlers under the support of the military. ” – Muntasir al-Maliki, a resident of Kufr Malik
Israel has reportedly been using “security” as an excuse to invade Syria and grab land and resources – beginning hours after the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024.
Mothers in Gaza cannot even have simple, unguarded moments with their children while under the everpresent threat of death or starvation.
In Jayyous and neighboring villages, Palestinian farmers have been served dozens of new demolition orders intended to push them off their land.
Israel’s warfare in Gaza and Lebanon looks like systems-level destruction of the environmental and infrastructural substrate of life—water, soil, agriculture, energy, and urban continuity.
“This is unprecedented damage,” said the lead researcher on the project, who has worked in wartorn Syria. Gaza has “become like a barren land.”
Israel’s destruction of structures in areas of Gaza that remain under Israeli military control is a ceasefire violation.