Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure

Destroying seeds is destroying a people’s history and its future.Originally published on Global VoicesScreenshot of video shared by the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), showing the destruction of the seed bank. Fair use. On July 31, 2025, Israeli forces bulldozed the seed‑multiplication unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC's) seed bank in Hebron. Built from the ground up beginning in 2010, the unit had served as t…

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JFJFPFriends of the Earth International condemns the assault on Palestine’s only national seed bank – JFJFP

A destroyed storage facility at the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), seed bank in Hebron, July 2025 Friends of the Earth International issued this statement on 1 August 2025: Friends of the Earth International strongly condemns the military assault on a seed bank in the West Bank. The Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC)´s Seed Bank in Hebron is the only national seed bank in Palestine. We stand in …