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Since 1948, when the state of Israel was established on 78% of Palestine and 3/4 of all Palestinians were expelled from their homes, Israel has been damaging and destroying the environment in order to exploit its natural resources; to pressure Palestinians to leave their land, as part of its repeated military assaults and illegal siege and blockade of Gaza; and to erase evidence of Palestinian existence and connection to the land.
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During its establishment in 1948, the new state of Israel expropriated more than four million acres(this link opens in a new window)(this document-link opens in a new window) of land belonging to the approximately 750,000 Palestinians who were driven from their homes and made refugees, denying their internationally recognized legal right to return along with the thousands of others internally displaced inside Israel.
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Israel systematically denies Palestinians in the occupied territories and parts of Israel(this link opens in a new window) access to clean and safe drinking water. Israel steals more than 80% of water(this link opens in a new window) in the occupied West Bank and expropriates it for use in illegal settlements, denying Palestinians access to water(this link opens in a new window) while supplying Israeli settlers with enough water to fill swimming pools, irrigate crops, and wash vehicles.
Israel steals Palestinian land in order to build illegal settlements, destroying the natural environment in the process . Israel has clear-cut and uprooted tens of thousands of trees(this link opens in a new window) in order to build settlements on Palestinian agricultural and grazing lands(this link opens in a new window)(this document-link opens in a new window), leading to increased soil erosion. In 2021 alone, the Israeli army uprooted, destroyed, and burned approximately 19,000 trees(this link opens in a new window). Some settlements have also been built on nature reserves(this link opens in a new window) in the West Bank
Thereās a lot more.If you want to be informed/depressed/ angry click on the link.
We need more people like Macklemore to speak out about it.