This number has certainly increased since Israel’s destruction continued six months ago, the peace group CodePink said in a petition for signatures to be delivered to the U.S. Congress on Earth Day, April 22.

“To commemorate this Earth Day, we are exposing members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition for their hypocrisy and failure to address the environmental devastation caused by Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza,” it noted.

Killing people kills the planet -weapons destroy people and the Earth! Funding war is not environmentalism!” noted CodePink in its plea to Congress that war is not green! Genocide = Ecocide!”

Destroying the Earth, it argued, “is just another tactic to accelerate genocide, as now almost all of Gaza’s agricultural land, energy and water infrastructure has been destroyed or contaminated¨.

This will continue to have detrimental effects on the health of Gazans even years after the bombing stops, it said.

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