Gaza: we analysed a year of satellite images to map the scale of agricultural destruction.
Gaza: we analysed a year of satellite images to map the scale of agricultural destruction.
theconversation.com Gaza: we analysed a year of satellite images to map the scale of agricultural destruction
Most of Gaza’s olive trees, citrus trees and greenhouses have been destroyed.
Attacks on agricultural lands are prohibited under international law. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court from 1998 defines the intentional use of starvation of civilians through “depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival” as a war crime. The Geneva conventions further define such indispensable objects as “foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production offoodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works”.