Environment and Conflict Alert - Gaza
Publisher: PAX
Date: 2021
Topics: Disasters, Land, Renewable Resources, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Countries: Palestine
The reverberating effects of the military campaign with heavy explosive weapons in Gaza will have long term implications on the health and livelihoods of Palestinians and ecosystems they depend on. Prior conflicts and a debilitating economic blockade had already left Gaza’s environment in a dire state. The 2014 conflict ravaged its agricultural industry, while the groundwater depletion and pollution damage to ecosystems since then has further severely affected the state of the environment. Gaza faces a perpetuating struggle dealing with solid waste management, water, and food security.