Talk:Environmental damage in the Gaza Strip caused by the Israel–Hamas war

Many more sources available

• https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-06/after-six-months-of-war-israels-isolation-grows-with-no-end-in-sight
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israels-war-in-gaza-is-creating-enormous-hidden-health-problems/
• https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/gaza-israel-invisible-environmental-war/article67576383.ece
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2023/israel-war-destruction-gaza-record-pace/
• https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/06/the-un-is-investigating-the-environmental-impact-of-the-war-in-gaza-heres-what-it-says-so-
• https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/israel-hamas-war-bodies-rotting-dangerous-chemicals-environmental-hazards-gaza-strip-13276482.html
• https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/reminder-israel-and-gaza-importance-and-limitations-environmental-peacebuilding
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/sanammahoozi/2024/01/04/the-environmental-toll-in-gaza-will-endanger-residents-long-after-wars-end/
• https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/06/the-un-is-investigating-the-environmental-impact-of-the-war-in-gaza-heres-what-it-says-so-
• https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2023/12/14/how-much-environmental-damage-is-israels-war-on-gaza-causing
• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/gaza-israel-war-hamas-carbon-emissions-climate-damage/
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change
• https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2023/12/06/how-gaza-has-become-a-critical-issue-for-climate-activism-no-climate-justice-without-peace/
• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/5/is-israels-war-on-gaza-also-hurting-the-climate
• https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1149126

John Cummings (talk) 16:11, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 15:36, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that Israel's systematic destruction of 38–48% of trees and farmland in Gaza using bulldozers and tens of thousands of bombs has been described as an ecocide? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/29/gaza-israel-palestinian-war-ecocide-environmental-destruction-pollution-rome-statute-war-crimes-aoe
  • ALT1: ... that Israel forces have systematically destroyed 38–48% of tree cover and farmland in Gaza by using bulldozers and tens of thousands of bombs? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/29/gaza-israel-palestinian-war-ecocide-environmental-destruction-pollution-rome-statute-war-crimes-aoe
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KDCD-TV
  • Comment: I'm very open to revising the hook, the research by Forensic Architecture states that "What’s left is devastation... an area that is no longer livable...", I think this is a really important point to get across but not sure how to include it in the hook.

Created by John Cummings (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

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John Cummings (talk) 10:57, 9 April 2024 (UTC).

• With four maintenance tags, this isn't going anywhere. Schwede66 00:04, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Reopening per talk.--Launchballer 15:25, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks again Launchballer, just FYI to whoever reviews this, I've addressed the maintainance tags and done a QPQ with Template:Did you know nominations/KDCD-TV. John Cummings (talk) 15:48, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

• Full review needed now that maintenance tags are addressed and QPQ has been submitted. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

thanks BlueMoonset, to the person reviewing it, please ping me with any questions :) John Cummings (talk) 16:18, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

• @John Cummings:, I started a review, but didn't get past the first section. I understand that this is a delicate subject, but the opening fails Wikipedia:NPOV. Can you rework the opening section so it a little less "pointy"? --evrik ^(talk) 21:40, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

• Hi evrik thank you for looking at the article, I realise it is an emotive subject. I believe the intro to be a fair summary of the events and have used the same descriptors for the events as the sources, especially the academic study to try to make the article as accurate as possible. However there are limited sources available given the blockade and ban on journalists entering. I can't find any sources which despute that the destruction has happened or who destroyed the farms and trees. There are some more sources to go through but they mainly focus on the health impacts of the destruction. I've included the only quote I can find from the Israeli government in the body of the article. Can you tell me which words/phrases specifically you think are not balanced and how you would go about changing it? John Cummings (talk) 21:52, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

• Tone down the hyperbole in the opening. If you can do that, ping me and I'll start the review again. --evrik ^(talk) 22:00, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

• @Evrik: (I appreciate I'm butting in, but the page is on my watchlist) I'm not seeing hyperbole in the article, grim as it is; some specifics would be helpful for progressing the article. Richard Nevell (talk) 20:57, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

• Richard Nevell, feel free to review the article.--evrik ^(talk) 16:27, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

• I edited two items in the article. It looks like the suggestions made here have been implemented and the article is as neutral as it can be. The article has the correct inline citations and it is both long enough and new enough to qualify for dyk. The hook is confirmed, in the article, and interesting. I prefer ALT0 as it introduces the word ecocide which is the subject of the article. The nominator has done a qpq. Regarding the stability of the article - it appears mostly -stable, just the nominator and myself have edited it today. Earwig has been down for me today so I have spot checked sources and did not find evidence of plagiarism. Bruxton (talk) 01:32, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Bruxton thanks very much for assessing it and for your additions to the article. John Cummings (talk) 08:21, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

NPOV

John Cummings, could you mention the Israeli/ IDF POV in the article, as the Guardian article does? I can't see any mention of it at present. The DYK reviewer will need to check that the article has a NPOV. TSventon (talk) 20:08, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi TSventon, thanks, I added a sentence. John Cummings (talk) 21:38, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Cost

In case it's useful, the World Bank has [1] that up to the end of January the conflict had caused more than US$400 million worth of damage to Gaza's environment. Richard Nevell (talk) 19:09, 21 April 2024 (UTC)