Environmental Warfare in Gaza by Shourideh C Molavi

Environmental Warfare in Gaza by Shourideh C Molavi

Israel is destroying both lives and livelihoods as it decimates the fertile lands of Palestine

'Few people who do not live there know Gaza as well as Shourideh Molavi does.. Almost entirely written before the catastrophic events of late 2023, this book anticipates them, exposing the brutal history of crimes against trees, plants and the people who live with them along the 300-mile border zone between Gaza and Israel, as nothing less than 75 years of colonization.'

-- Laura Kurgan, Professor, Columbia University

'A timely and very essential addition for the understanding of the multi-layered story of Gaza, and that of Palestine. Beyond the familiar warfare in Gaza, the book presents a unique tale of Israeli violence to reengineer the Palestinian environment. The Israeli disruption of the harmonized native environment does not go without Palestinian resistance, and the book reminds the readers of the new vocabularies and imaginaries of liberation and justice.'

-- Ahmad Amara, lawyer and researcher of law, Al-Quds University

'As we witness the State of Israel’s horrific and criminal assault against the civilian population of Gaza and its habitation infrastructures, Shourideh C. Molavi remind us that this is not an exceptional event, but the last episode in Israel’s decades-long apartheid colonial occupation and military siege of Palestinian lands. Spatial analysis of Israel’s settler-colonial policies has focused on the built environment, Molavi’s thought-provoking book extends this framework to show how settler-colonialism encompass an entire ecology that operates through the natural environment – land, crops, trees, forests, water, air. Against this oppressive, militarized environmentalism, Molavi also shows how Palestinian liberation struggles created an “eco-imaginary” of landscapes saturated with memories and prospects of freedom. One may not fully agree with the politics, but we cannot blind eyes to Molavi’s forensic mapping of the political-ecological landscape of systemic rights violations and dispossession to which Palestinians are subjected on a daily basis by the Israeli occupation. In a moment of increasing censorship of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices, and the biased view of Western media and politicians legitimizing the crimes of the State of Israel, the publication of Molavi’s evidence-based, grounded, extensive research comes timely, providing a much necessary historic context to understand the unfolding events in light of the long history of the State of Israel’s settler-colonialism and Palestinian liberation struggles through the lens of environmental history. '

-- Paulo Tavares, architect, author, and educator

Shourideh C. Molavi is a writer and scholar in political science and urban studies. She is the dedicated Palestine-Israel researcher at Forensic Architecture, an independent research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, and teaches in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Basel in Switzerland. She is the author of Stateless Citizenship: The Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel.

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ISBN 13	9780745344577
ISBN 10	0745344577
Title	Environmental Warfare in Gaza
Author	Shourideh C Molavi
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pluto Press
Year published	2024-02-20
Number of pages	136
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