Reports that an IDF base has built a trebuchet to fire incendiary loads into Lebanon to start fires to remove cover close to the border. Incendiary attacks against the environment in Lebanon and northern Israel have become increasingly normalised #Gazawww.newarab.com/news/israel-... 1/3
7-day fire data reveals a number of fires - not all of which are landscape fires. IHL is too permissive of the use of incendiary weapons against military objects - like land cover. For reference Israel is not a state party to CCW Protocol III on incendiary weapons. 2/3
Mediterranean vegetation has evolved to cope with fire but conflict-linked anthropogenic fires are an additional burden. Fires damage habitats, fauna and flora, and agricultural areas, while burned areas have higher erosion rates. Fires also increase GHG emissions. 3/3
