The perimeter around the occupied Gaza Strip is formed by a sophisticated system of fences, forts, and surveillance technologies. With each Israeli incursion, a military no-go area, or a 'buffer zone', is established along Gaza's 'borders', extending deep into Palestinian residential areas and farmlands-- further compounding the Gaza Strip's isolation from the rest of Palestine.

Since 2014, the bulldozing of Palestinian lands by the Israeli occupation forces has been complemented by unannounced aerial spraying of military herbicides, extending the reach of Israeli violence into the realm of chemical warfare. Today, the spraying has destroyed entire swaths of arable land in Gaza, forcibly changing a once-lush Palestinian landscape, and providing the Israeli army with better visibility to fire at Palestinian targets with lethal force from a distance.
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This book is a vivid document of this latest stage of Israeli warfare, including original maps, images, and visualizations which deepen our understanding of its environmental and human impact. It collects new documents, original archival materials, stills of drone footage, first-hand testimonies of farmers, organizers and protesters, and documents affected vegetation in Gaza as 'silent witnesses' to Israeli settler-colonial violence.

In this provocative and compelling work Shourideh Molavi documents the legal plight of Palestinians living inside of Israel.

Today, the full political subject in the State of Israel is not the citizen, but rather the figure of the 'immigrant'. Although formed through the historical matrix of European colonialism, serving as a site of Western power in the Middle East and influenced by European citizenship and nationality regulations, the constitutional structures in those countries were unable to fully encompass the parameters of Israel's particular logic of inclusion-its signature of colonial apartheid.

Shourideh C. Molavi examines Israel as a novel constitutional phenomenon with major features of nation-statehood, including territorial borders, demography, and sovereignty largely remaining incomplete, unresolved and illegitimate-resulting in its ability to interrogate and dilute the figure of the citizen. Building on her previous research on the ways in which Israel employs citizenship structures to place non-Jewish citizens in a relation of 'exclusive inclusion, ' Molavi argues here that this arrangement it has rendered the 'Jewish immigrant' as the primary figure making up the Israeli body politic. This book outlines the core analytical feature of what Molavi terms Israeli 'colonial inclusion', unpacking the mechanisms through which the colonial logic of pre-1948 Zionism resurfaces in contemporary Israeli citizenship structures.

Far from integration into the Israeli incorporation regime, Palestinians inside the state are today placed in a paradoxical situation where, as Arab citizens of a Jewish state, they are both inside and outside, host and guest, citizen and stateless. Through the paradigm of stateless citizenship, Shourideh C. Molavi examines the dynamics of exclusion of Palestinian citizens and analytically frames the mechanisms through which their statelessness is maintained. With this she centres our analytical gaze on the paradox that it is through the actual provision of Israeli citizenship that Palestinians are deemed stateless. Molavi critically engages with the liberal variant of Zionist thought, and deconstructs discourse around minority rights and liberal citizenship in the context of Israel's racialized ideological and political makeup.