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53 Technium Soc. Sci. J. 252 (2024)
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Towards a Major Logistical and Environmental Crisis?

handle is hein.journals/techssj53 and id is 252 raw text is: Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 53, 252-258, January, 2024 ISSN: 2668-7798 www.techniumscience.com Israeli-Palestinian conflict: towards a major logistical and environmental crisis? Gilles Pache CERGAM, Aix-Marseille University, France gilles.pache@univ-amu.fr Abstract. Since October 2023, the Middle East has once again experienced a dramatic episode in its history, with an Israeli-Palestinian conflict following a bloody terrorist attack on Israeli territory by 3,000 Hamas assailants. At the end of 2023, the Gaza Strip, at the heart of violent fighting, was experiencing a catastrophic situation for its population, leading many NGOs to speak of a major humanitarian crisis. While this is an essential issue, it should not conceal the possibility of a logistical and environmental crisis. This research note highlights the potential impacts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, pointing out that they are most often common to all military conflicts. However, a few weeks after the October 2023 terrorist attack, the logistical crisis in global supply chains has been averted, while the environmental crisis is inevitable for the Gaza Strip. Keywords. Environment, Gaza Strip, global supply chains, logistics, military conflict, terrorism, war damage. 1. Introduction The Hamas terrorist attack of October 7, 2023, has sent Israel and many Western democracies into a state of shock (1,200 Israeli deaths in some 20 towns and kibbutzes, around 240 hostages transferred to the Gaza Strip). Faced with an attack of incredible cruelty (murder of babies, children and the elderly, serial rape of young girls, emasculation of men, etc.), contradicting the idea that non-violent political terrorism is now the norm (Muhid, 2021), Israel's military response in the Gaza Strip to eradicate Hamas is on a massive scale, and the resulting humanitarian crisis for civilians is being highlighted by a growing number of NGOs, like MSF, as underlined by Mahase (2023), but also by international institutions, including the United Nations. These reactions are understandable when thousands of people are dying under Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombardment. While the terrible human consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have already been highlighted, this is not the case for its possible longer-term implications, both for global supply chains and the environment. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict could trigger a major logistical and environmental crisis, especially if it leads to lasting economic destabilization in the Middle East over the next few years. Any violent conflict has major societal consequences in the country or countries affected: fighting causes many civilian casualties; disease and epidemics are more frequent; 252

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