Organizers, human rights advocates, and legal experts from around the world convened in Barcelona in November 2025 for the International People’s Tribunal on Palestine . Over the course of a weekend on November 22 and 23, jurors and attendees heard from more than a dozen witnesses who testified to Israel’s calculated destruction of not only Gaza’s population but also its natural environment. Besides arguing that Israel, the U.S., and some European governments have committed genocide in Gaza, prosecutors told jurors that the environmental devastation in the enclave amounts to ecocide.

“Ecocide is committed to guarantee the objective of genocide,” Omar Nashabe, a scholar of international human rights law who testified as an expert at the tribunal, told Truthout . “You kill the people, y

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