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On Rendering Uninhabitable: The War on Palestine and Lebanon and its Environmental Effects

Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its expansion of killing and destruction in Lebanon have targeted the ecologies and environments that sustain the livelihood of Palestinians and Lebanese. 

In Gaza, Palestinians face the destruction of water infrastructure and agricultural land, even as they face catastrophic levels of hunger under siege. 

In South Lebanon, olive trees and the harvest season have been burned and threatened.

In both Lebanon and Gaza, the use of white phosphorus, the inordinate amount of asbestos-poisoned rubble produced in the destruction of the built environment, the movement of animals because of different patterns of human habitation will all have long-term effects on the habitability of the land, affecting all the region, including Israel. 

Yet, Palestinians and Lebanese have insisted to continue to find ways to inhabit the ruins produced, to grow food, and tend to all of those living. 

This panel will examine these environmental tactics of war and their long-term effects, along with ground-uptactics of survival and sumud, for it is the latter that holds the key to rebuilding and cultivating futures on the day after. 

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