Israeli Engineered Infrastructure Collapse Genocide in Gaza As a professional engineer in Ontario,
I unequivocally condemn Israel to continue creating genocide against the Palestinian people.
From an engineering and public-health perspective, what is happening in GAZA is not incidental damage—it is the systematic destruction of the conditions required for human survival. The targeting and disabling of sanitary and wastewater systems, water treatment facilities, drainage networks, and solid-waste infrastructure has led to sewage overflow, contaminated water sources, and the spread of disease.
At the same time, displaced families are being forced to live under freezing cold, heavy rainfall, with tents collapsing, bulidings collapsing, flooded ground, and no proper drainage. With homes destroyed and reconstruction materials deliberately blocked, people—especially children, the elderly, and the sick—are exposed to freezing temperatures, hypothermia, respiratory illness, and life-threatening health conditions.
Denying fuel and electricity further compounds this crisis. Humanitarian aid are lining up blocked . Palestinians are without power, there is no heating, no pumping of clean water, no functioning sanitation, and no protection from the cold. These are not abstract policy outcomes; they are predictable, engineered consequences.
As engineers, we understand that destroying infrastructure while preventing repair is a weapon. When sanitation systems fail, disease follows. When shelter is denied in winter conditions, death follows. When clean water is cut off, survival becomes impossible. This is collective punishment carried out through infrastructure collapse.
Infrastructure is the backbone of life. To dismantle it deliberately and to block its repair is to dismantle a people’s right to exist.
We refuse to be silent while engineering knowledge, technologies, and policies are used to enable mass suffering, displacement, and death. Accountability is not optional. Protecting civilian life and essential infrastructure is not political—it is a legal and ethical obligation.
Bahira Abdulsalam PhD PEng
Информация по комментариям в разработке