By Daphne Chouliaraki Milner, Photo: Sabine Villiard / Trunk Archive, Atmos, October 24, 2023
Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, the first Palestinian executive director of the Arava Institute, an Israel-based academic institute focused on transboundary climate solutions, explains how environmental cooperation can help with regional stability, especially in crisis times.
More than one million people have been displaced in Gaza, following Israel’s evacuation orders of the northern part of the sealed-off coastal enclave earlier this month. In just six days, Israel said it had dropped 6,000 bombs on Gaza, which is under “complete siege,” meaning no fuel, food, water or medical supplies are allowed into the territory, a strip of land of around 140 square miles. Israel’s continuous bombardment of Gaza since October 7 has so far killed over 5,000, with around 2,000 of them being children. Even as some aid is now allowed to enter the territory from Egypt, the humanitarian crisis facing people in Gaza has been described as “unimaginable horrors” by Oxfam’s chief executive.
This is Israel’s deadliest assault on Gaza, which was launched in response to Hamas fighters killing over 1,400 people on October 7 in southern Israel, many of whom were in their homes or at a music festival. Hamas has also taken more than 220 people hostage. Though the region has seen countless wars, occupations, operations, and attacks over the decades, many are saying it is unlike any previous conflict.
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