Palestine-Israel

There are 268 resources related to Palestine-Israel.

Report on UNCTAD Assistance to the Palestinian People: Developments in the Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory

2015 | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

In 2014, the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory witnessed the first recession since 2006 and the second consecutive decline in gross domestic product (GDP)…

Desk Study of the Economic and Geo-political Feasibility of a Large-Scale Desalination Plant in the Gaza Strip and Its Incorporation into the Regional Water Supply System

2025 | EcoPeace Middle East
David Katz and Fredi Lokiec

The population of the Gaza Strip suffers from extreme water scarcity. With limited natural water resources, desalination will have to play a central role in providing…

Environmental Impact of the Conflict in Gaza: Preliminary Assessment of Environmental Impacts

2024 | UNEP

This Preliminary Assessment was prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is an initial response to an official request from the State of…

Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential

2024 | The Lancet
Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee, and Salim Yusef

By June 19, 2024, 37,396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023,…

Mitigating Risks of Environmental Impacts on Gaza - Review of Precautions & Solutions Post (2023 War)

2023 | International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology
Khawla Al-Muhannadi and Mohamed Buheji

The latest war on Gaza that started after 7th of October 2023, has increased the risks of the environmental impact on the people's quality of…

Gender in Energy Interventions in Fragile and Conflict Situations in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Insights from Iraq, Lebanon, Republic of Yemen, and the West Bank and Gaza

2020 | World Bank Group
Elisabeth Maier, Samantha Constant, and Ali Ahmad

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is home to some of the most fragile situations and conflict-affected population in the world. With one in…

Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip: Fast Facts [Infographic]

2011 | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The Gaza blockade (through the land, air and sea) is a denial of basic human rights in contravention of international law and amounts to collective…

Gaza: The Undrinkable Water of a Land under Seige [Video]

2020 | International Middle East Media Center
Rakan Abed El Rahman

Experts say Israeli policies and wars are to blame for a deepening water crisis in Gaza that will have detrimental effects on public health, especially…

Water and Security: Pressure Points to Watch in 2016 [Infographic]

2016 | Circle of Blue
Kaye LaFond and Codi Kozacek

After five years of civil war, the humanitarian crisis in Syria has reached massive proportions: More than 4.6 million people have fled the country as…

Hidden Hunger: The Gendered Impacts of Food Security and Malnutrition on Women and Girls in the West Bank

2026 | UN Women and West Bank Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group

The West Bank Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group produced this Gender Matters Bulletin: Hidden Hunger to highlight the gender-specific impacts of the ongoing…

Red-Dead Redemption? Applying and Critiquing Environmental Peacebuilding in Palestine, Jordan, and Israel

2025 | Oregon State University
Zachary M. Field

The theory of environmental peacebuilding holds that transboundary environmental challenges can serve as a catalyst for cooperation and conflict resolution. Formed in response to perspectives…

Operationalizing Science and Technology Initiatives for Conflict Mitigation: A Strategic Framework

2025 | Global Policy
Lee Emerson Voth-Gaeddert, Mia Peterson, and Doug Momberg

As global conflict dynamics grow increasingly complex, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) offer a critical yet underutilized set of tools for advancing conflict mitigation.…

EcoPeace Middle East Desk Study of the Geo-political, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility of a Middle East - Europe Renewable Energy Corridor

2025 | Qamar Energy and EcoPeace Middle East

Clean energy is a crucial opportunity to foster sustainable development, economic reconstruction, and peace and reconciliation, between Israel, Palestine and the neighbouring countries of Jordan,…

The Famines in Gaza and Other Conflict Areas Are a Moral Failure

2025 | The Lancet
Saskia Osendarp, Lawrence Haddad, Cecilia Fabrizio, Caroline Andridge, Robert E. Black, Molly E. Brown, et al.

As scientists and members of the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium (ST4N) who have been Standing Together For Nutrition during recent crises, we use evidence…

The Thirst for Power: Overcoming the Politics of Water in the Middle East

2025 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Natasha Hall, Robin Savage, Hassan Janabi, Neda Zawahri, and Ciarán Ó Cuinn

The Middle East has battled water insecurity for centuries, but today, the region is on a razor’s edge. Climate change and overuse have threatened water…

Abeer Butmeh - Second Annual Conference on Conflict and Climate Change in MENA [Video]

2024 | Arab Reform Initiative and Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network- Friends of Earth Palestine

Meet Abeer Butmeh, a distinguished water and environmental engineer who serves as the coordinator for PENGON-FoE Palestine. Renowned as a leading activist for environmental justice…

The Bad Samaritan: Land Grabbing by Settlers through Grazing

2025 | Peace Now
Kerem Navot

Kerem Navot and Peace Now have published a joint report revealing how a small group of violent settlers, with support from the Israeli government, have…

Household Level WASH & Protection Assessment in Gaza (October 2024)

2024 | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The Gaza Strip, particularly Khan Younis area, faces critical challenges in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Protection Services. Prolonged conflict, limited resources, and infrastructural…

Rapid Assessment--UNDP/PAPP's Emergency Response to Solid Waste Management

2024 | UNDP Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People

This assessment indicates that the solid waste management system in Gaza has collapsed. There is no access to the major landfills, and waste accumulates at…

The Siege of Gaza’s Water

2024 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Natasha Hall, Anita Kirschenbaum, and David Michel

On October 9, in response to the October 7 assault by Hamas militants, Israel’s defense minister ordered a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip, including…

On Dialogue and Beyond: Positive Environmental Peacebuilding in Palestine

2024 | Journal of Social Encounters
Elsa Barron

In Palestine, environmental management has been used as a tool of military occupation and oppression. Yet even within that context, many community-based organizations have established…

The Devastating Impact of Gaza’s Acute and Prolonged Water Crisis

2024 | Middle East Institute
Natasha Westheimer

The Gaza Strip, a densely populated coastal enclave, faces a severe and worsening water crisis. Over the past five months, Gaza has been devastated by…

Navigating Public Health in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Charting a Path Forward

2023 | Health and Human Rights Journal
William C. Lieber, Faraan O. Rahim, Bhav Jain, Devesh Shah, and Mohammad Z. Sahloul

In the wake of the devastating attack by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, which resulted in over 1,200 Israeli deaths and the capture…

Environmental Warfare Tactics in Irregular Conflict

2023 | Perspectives on Politics
Anna Feuer

This article considers how, and under what conditions, actors in irregular conflicts weaponize nature. When do insurgents and counterinsurgents pursue environmental degradation—ranging from limited and…

Decolonising Water Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation: From Security-Peace to Equity-Identity

2023 | Water Policy
Mohsen Nagheeby and Jaime Amezaga

Water diplomacy and conflict transformation are dominated by an interest-based paradigm, where attention is given solely to achieving security and peace. The authors intend to…

Report Launch: Environmental Cooperation Between Israel and its Arab and Muslim Neighbors [Video]

2023 | Middle East Institute
Mohammed Mahmoud, Nimrod Goren, Gidon Bromberg, Galit Cohen, and Dov Khenin

As environmental challenges become a priority for countries across the Middle East and the Mediterranean, this creates new opportunities for regional environmental cooperation, including between…

Regional Environmental Cooperation between Israel and Its Neighbors

2023 | Middle East Institute
Nimrod Goren, Ofir Winter, and Maya Negev

As environmental challenges become a priority for countries across the Middle East and the Mediterranean, this creates new opportunities for regional environmental cooperation, including between…

Environmental Cooperation between Israel and Its Neighbors [Video]

2023 | University of California, Los Angeles
Alon Tal and Dov Waxman

The Middle East is considered a “climate hot spot," which is already showing extreme weather conditions and ecological damage, but this difficult reality also offers…

Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach

2012 | Earthscan from Routledge
Charles Kelly

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly…

Options and Strategies for Planning Water and Climate Security in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

2022 | Water
Amal Sarsour and Nidhi Nagabhatla

Water security is at the front and center of climate change, human security, and sustainable development in regions and communities with competing water usage contexts,…