Bulletin of the International People’s Tribunal for Palestine
November 4, 2025
According to a report by Haaretz, Israeli forces are dumping industrial waste from infrastructure work and base construction used by occupation soldiers. This includes massive amounts of construction waste, rubble, and debris from even settlements outside of Gaza.
Footage showed trucks owned by private companies driving roughly 200–300 meters inside Gaza to dump the waste before turning back to load and dump more.
The decision to undertake these waste dumps were made at the highest level by field commanders. When asked what the future plans for these waste dumps were, Zionist commanders simply said, “foreign countries involved in Gaza’s postwar reconstruction will eventually clean it up,” placing the burden on vague external actors.
Waste dumps leak heavy metals such as lead and mercury, as well as volatile organic compounds such as benzene into the soil, along with petroleum byproducts and microplastics. These can last for generations and become a lasting presence in the food and drinking water in the area.
This is a deliberate move by the Zionist occupation to make Gaza unlivable as a means to destroy the sovereignty of the people over the land. As the Palestinian people fight to assert their sovereignty, we must fight alongside them to hold the Zionist occupation and their US government backers accountable for their blatant acts of ecocide.
This we intend to do November 22 – 23 via the International People’s Tribunal in Barcelona.
