Palestine-Israel
There are 257 resources related to Palestine-Israel.
Report on UNCTAD Assistance to the Palestinian People: Developments in the Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
2015
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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)…
Environmental Impact of the Conflict in Gaza: Preliminary Assessment of Environmental Impacts
2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
The Bad Samaritan: Land Grabbing by Settlers through Grazing
2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,…
How Water Strategizing Is Remaking the Middle East
2022
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Wilson Center
Peter Schwartzstein
MENA’s best hope may lie in increasing transnational cooperation on water to avoid conflict. Some deals have already taken place, but the region faces a…
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D
Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice
2022
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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
E. Tendayi Achiume
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…
Hydro-Hegemony, Water Governance, and Water Security: Palestinians under Israeli Occupation in the Jordan Valley, West Bank
2022
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Water Alternatives
Michelle Rudolph and Rachel Kurian
'Hydro-hegemony' typically refers to the power-related tactics and strategies used by stronger states in transboundary water disputes that prioritise their access to water and compel…
Regional Lessons from the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Middle East: From Infectious Diseases to Climate Change Adaptation
2021
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Science of the Total Environment
Maya Negev, Yara Dahdal, Haneen Khreis, Assaf Hochman, Mohammed Shaheen, Madi T.A. Jaghbir, Pinhas Alpert, Hagai Levine, and Nadav Davidovitch
Global health threats including epidemics and climate change, know no political borders and require regional collaboration if they are to be dealt with effectively. This…
Water Management in the West Bank: Implications on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
2020
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Babes-Bolyai University and University of Port Harcourt
Boma Amaso and Fidelis Allen
The struggle for scarce natural resources (like water) exacerbated by climate change often leads to conflict. This paper exposes the implications of the control and…
Crossing Borders through Environmental Cooperation Civil Society and Environmental Peacebuilding in the Lower Part of the Jordan River: The Case of EcoPeace Middle East between 1994 and 2020
2021
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Utrecht University
Alice Carnevali
This research project examines how the environmental non-governmental organization (NGO) EcoPeace Middle East (EcoPeace) defined its role as a non-state environmental peacebuilder over the Jordan…
Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: Jordan, Palestine and Israel
2021
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Climate Security Expert Network
Giulia Giordano and Lukas Rüttinger
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is considered a climate-security hotspot due to its natural water scarcity, low levels of socio-ecological resilience, social…