The Israeli army’s deliberate killing of five Palestinian farmers while working on their land in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, reflects a recurring pattern and an ongoing systematic policy aimed at destroying any attempt to secure the minimum food supply through local production.
The attack on the seed bank is an attack on the local wisdom, ecological heritage, and the work by the farmers to reproduce, preserve, and improve local seeds.
The deliberate starvation of Gaza is part of a long history of Israel weaponising food and water to control, subjugate, and, ultimately, displace Palestinians.
Israel has continued to target farmland in the once-abundant Gaza Strip, and wiped out most livestock and working animals – the last means of transport for many amid severe food shortages and limited public mobility
Former IDF soldier and world’s foremost expert on genocide believes there is evidence that the Israeli military has committed genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Gaza
The once-fertile farm lands of Gaza, especially along the eastern border, have been reduced to barren wastelands by Israeli military operations. Fields & greenhouses, once teeming with life, have been destroyed, pushing Gaza’s agricultural sector to the brink of collapse
Israeli attacks have caused life expectancy in Gaza to drop by decades; secondary deaths from malnutrition and disease among others, as well as affecting vulnerable groups, including pregnant women.
A forensIc study: Gaza is suffering the most intense bombing, per capita, of anywhere on earth, ever. The unlimited bombing of Gaza has created an unparalleled ecological and biomedical feedback loop. Israel exhales death in Gaza and inhales the Gaza it has vaporized.
As rubble removal continues across Gaza, concerns are mounting over airborne dust that may carry asbestos fibers, posing health risks, including asbestosis, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases, health officials in Gaza say.
The bombing of Gaza has destroyed agricultural land and poisoned the soil, while Israel’s sweeping blockade has made water scarce for farmers who once provided a third of Gaza’s food needs.