Climate Defiance, a climate activist group focused on young adults, says Israel’s devastating war on the Gaza Strip could make the besieged coastal enclave “uninhabitable not just for years but for generations”.

In a post on X, it says that up to 48 percent of tree cover and farmland in the strip has been torched and 23 percent of greenhouses have been destroyed in their entirety.

“This is a war crime. This is ecocide,” it says.

“This is not ‘just’ about nature. This is about the food and the air and the water and the land being deprived of life. It is about a whole population being denied its sustenance.”