Welcome back to Drilled. I'm Amy Westerfeld. I'm Amy Westerfeld. Today we're bringing you a dispatch from the front lines, not only of the climate crisis, but also of the Israel-Palestine War.

Our senior editor, Aline Brown, managed to get hold of an environmental activist in Palestine

to talk about how militarization intersects with various environmental issues

and what it's like to fight for survival against a changing climate and an occupying force at the same time.

Here's Aline with that story.

Last week I spoke to Abir Bhutme,

coordinator of the Palestinian NGOs network, one of the most important Palestinian

environmental organizations. Before we get into this conversation

though, I want to define some terms that Abir uses that might not be familiar to listeners.

First of all, you're going to hear a beer talk about 1948 territory.

Palestine was under British rule between 1917 and 1948, and it was British policy to support

Jewish settlers who wanted to establish a national homeland there.

In the lead up to an aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, the immigration of European Jews to the area increased dramatically,

as did tensions between Jews and Arabs living in Palestine.

In 1947, the UN Assembly voted to separate Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab, with Jerusalem under a UN administration.

Arab Palestinians and several neighboring Arab countries rejected this plan.

Jewish militia groups attacked... Arab countries rejected this plan.

Jewish militia groups attacked Palestinian villages, forcing thousands of people to abandon

their homes.

The situation escalated into the Arab-Israeli war in 1948.

By this point, British colonial rule had ended.

Britain had withdrawn its troops and the Jewish side of Palestine outlined by the UN

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