#israel #palestine : #war / #genocide / #devastation / #infrastructure / #transport / #mobility

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/09/israel-gaza-iran-war-transportation/

It's not just around my town. A few years ago, another council destroyed the Den of Cowie outside Stonehaven. It used to be a beautiful cool shady stroll beneath tall beech trees, valuable on a summer's day. But now we have to have gravel paths and no trees.

#environment #stupidity #devastation #scotland #photo

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #devastation / #truce / #media / #radio

„Hona Ghazza was launched on air as an independent media outlet on February 11 – the first radio station to broadcast within the Palestinian enclave in more than two years. All 23 local radio stations that existed before the war have been destroyed by the Israeli army.“

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/24/here-gaza-and-the-rebirth-of-radio-within-the-devastated-territory_6750808_4.html

A quotation from Montesquieu

When the savages of Louisiana want some fruit, they cut down the tree at the base and gather the fruit. That is how a despotic government works.
 
[Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l’arbre au pied, & cueillent le fruit. Voilà le gouvernement despotique.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 5, ch. 13 (5.13) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82151/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #spoils #autocracy #despotism #destruction #devastation #exploitation #inefficiency #pillage #taking #thoughtlessness #tyranny #unsustainability

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #devastation / #truce / #uspeaceplan / #board / #reconstruction

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260216/p2g/00m/0in/018000c

See also:

„Gaza: $70 billion needed to rebuild shattered enclave, says UN“
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166096

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

A consciousness of the fact that war means practically total destruction is the reason, I think, for the rising tide to prevent what seems such a senseless procedure. I understand that it is perhaps difficult for some people, whose lives have been lived with a sense of the need for military development, to envisage the possibility of being no longer needed. But the average citizen is beginning to think more and more of the need to develop machinery to settle difficulties in the world without destruction or the use of atomic bombs.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1961-12-20), “My Day”

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #atombomb #destruction #devastation #diplomacy #internationalrelations #nuclearwar #nuclearweapon #peacemaking #war #worldpeace

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen two hundred limping, exhausted men come out of line — the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward forty-eight hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Speech (1936-08-14), Chautauqua, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #casualties #death #destruction #devastation #war #wounded

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #devastation / #daulylife / #electricity / #solarenergy

„Solar energy is praised worldwide for #sustainability. But here, it represents a form of #abandonment.“

https://progressive.org/latest/when-the-sun-decides-your-day-living-on-solar-in-gaza-herzallah-20260122/

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #uno / #devastation / #uninhabitability

„A top United Nations official on Jan 15 called for accelerating #reconstruction work in Gaza, saying Palestinians there were living in “inhumane” conditions, even as a US-backed truce entered its second phase.“

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/not-much-is-standing-in-gaza-says-un-official

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #devastation/ #homelessness / #idp / #aidrestrictions / #civilianvictims

„At least four displaced Palestinians killed when strong winds caused walls to collapse onto their tents and a one-year-old boy died of hypothermia.“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/14/gaza-storms-kill-palestinians-makeshift-camps

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #devastation / #survival / #uno / #ocha

„Some 65,000 households in the Gaza Strip were affected by the severe winter storms that whipped through the enclave last month, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday.“

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166711

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #idp / #civilianwarvictims

„As 2026 begins, residents of the Gaza Strip are confronting life in displacement camps and among the ruins of destroyed neighbourhoods – facing deep #uncertainty after months of war and #devastation.“
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166692

From ashes to art: How one artist in C.B.N. is using charred memories to deal devastation
When Joanne Cole’s Western Bay art studio burned down in August, she lost 30 years of work. Now she's using materials from the burned landscape to move forward.
#art #artist #devastation #CBN
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/from-ashes-to-art-how-one-artist-in-c-b-n-is-using-charred-memories-to-deal-devastation-9.7031188?cmp=rss

#israel #palestine : #war / #warfare / #gaza / #devastation / #idf / #civilianwarvictims

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/how-israels-multi-ton-truck-bombs-ripped-through-gaza-city

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza/ #truce / #devastation / #family / #reconstruction / #photojournalism

https://apnews.com/photo-essay/gaza-photos-destruction-war-israel-palestinians-313ba393c30b94609fa41a11585e6246?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-29-In+photos

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #devastation / #environment

„Gaza’s environmental systems have degraded to such a level that the government and scientific experts now talk about it in terms of #ecocide.“

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-26/gazas-environmental-apocalypse-what-we-have-left-is-not-soil-its-contaminated-waste.html

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #blockade / #civilianwarvictims / #ngo / #amnestyinternational / #lowintensitywarfare

»On Thursday, UK-based human rights organization Amnesty International said the #devastation from torrential rains in the Gaza strip was ''utterly preventable'' and ''was fueled by Israel's ongoing restrictions on the entry of critical supplies to repair vital infrastructure.''«

https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-flood-deaths-utterly-preventable-amnesty-says/a-75211383?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #idp / #family / #civilianwarvictims / #destruction / #homelessness / #portrait

„Nour AbuShammala has returned to her partly destroyed apartment in Gaza City. This is her story of multiple #displacements, #injury and #devastation over the last two years.“
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/dec/16/what-is-home-now-a-womans-two-year-search-for-safety-in-the-ruins-of-gaza

This is a #radio show, so the picture just sits there, but the audio content is very important, about the huge #devastation #military activity causes the #environment!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_RZLOxhV8

A quotation from the Poetic Edda

The sun turns black,  
                    earth sinks in the sea,
The hot stars down  
                    from heaven are whirled;
Fierce grows the steam  
                    and the life-feeding flame,
Till fire leaps high  
                    about heaven itself.
 
[Sól tér sortna,
                    sígr fold í mar,
hverfa af himni
                    heiðar stjǫrnur;
geisar eimi
                    við aldnara,
leikr hár hiti
                    við himin sjálfan.]

Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems
Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress], st. 57 (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/edda-poetic/80684/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #edda #poeticedda #apocalypse #conflagration #destruction #devastation #endoftheworld #ragnarok