More than 80,000 explosives have been dropped on the area, leaving three-quarters of agricultural land damaged and already exhausted water systems contaminated, Butmeh said. “It’s a catastrophic situation,” she said.

For added context, olive trees take around 12 years to mature and some of them have been carbon dated at 3,000-5,000 years old. Zionists have been intentionally destroying them and poisoning their land for decades in order to drive Palestinians from their homes, while also making the land completely unusable for agriculture.

The genocide has completely changed the landscape there and in its place, they are going to build the most generic, lifeless, westernized bullshit imaginable. Just concrete and fake green space everywhere.

Wouldn’t it be better to at least put a modicum of effort in to have some privacy, than to put zero effort in and have none at all?