Environmental action can be a civic front in a time of war

By Zafrir Rinat
Haaretz
October 15, 2024

"... Attended by Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian students, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is at the center of an initiative to help Gaza Strip residents set up independent electricity and water production facilities…

“It has already installed water purification and energy production systems in several Palestinian villages across the Green Line, cooperating with local activists and Palestinian firms…

"Transcending boundaries between Jewish and Arab communities, environmental cooperation is an absolute existential necessity given the climate crisis and the population density…

“Contributing to the fight for human rights, such initiatives could become a civic front against oppression and expulsion, nationalism and warmongering on all sides."

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