War on Gaza: Genocide in the Times of the Anthropocene

The scale of bombs Israel has dropped on the Gaza Strip since the start of its large-scale war on 7 October 2023 is the equivalent of 15 nuclear bombs (30,000 tons of explosives per day). I will argue in this talk that the war on Gaza is a continuation of the Israeli colonial project in the Occupied Palestinian territories in which there is a passage from spacio-cide (targeting land for the purpose of rendering it unlivable to foster the inevitable ‘voluntary’ transfer of the Palestinian population) to genocide. This genocide has a huge impact on destruction not only to humans but also to the environment. I will extend the notion of Anthropocene, unprecedented to go beyond global warming and climate change to think how this has been carried out not only by capitalism (Jason Moore’s concept of capitalocene) but also by colonial power (Colonialocene).