Ecocide on top of genocide in Gaza

JVL Introduction

George Monbiot states loudly and clearly that this isn’t only a genocide – it is an ecocide as well.

The two are intimately linked.

Israel’s campaign of destruction is not just of people and buildings, but of the means of subsistence itself.

Agricultural land has been systematically targeted by Israel’s cruel offensive: olive trees ploughed under, crops driven over, the aquifer on which Gaza depends for drinking water increasingly polluted.

And the “buffer zone” to the east of the strip (*prominent in Trump’s future plans for Gaza), which contains most of Gaza’s arable land, is now to be rendered inaccessible.

Monbiot is in little doubt: “the erasure of ecosystems and people’s means of survival seems to be a key strategic aim.”

RK

Originally published in the Guardian on 27th September here.