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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Kaamil Ahmed, Damien Gayle and Aseel Mousa in Gaza

‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?

A tank drives along a dirt road past yellow flowers
An Israeli tank passes wild flowers near Gaza’s border. The IDF carved new roads out of farmland when it invaded. With much of Gaza’s farms, greenhouses and orchards destroyed, many are asking if the population will be able to grow food any more. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty

In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have no running water, no fuel and are surrounded by running sewage and waste piling up.

Like the rest of Gaza’s residents, they fear the air they breathe is heavy with pollutants and that the water carries disease. Beyond the city streets lie razed orchards and olive groves, and farmland destroyed by bombs and bulldozers.

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