ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents first-hand analysis, experience and extensive field work, which will consequently highlight detailed insights into the human and socio-spatial dimension of urbicidal process. It presents an important contribution and complementary to the growing body of research on political/military urbanism in general and on urbicide in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in particular. The book presents the history of the intimate relationship between city, urbanity, and destruction in war events. It highlights the development of warfare and differences in the pre-modern, modern and contemporary periods. It analyzes the history of urban/territorial destruction in Palestine and links it with the Zionist ideology and perception of land and people. The book focuses on the contemporary destruction of Palestinian urbanity in the twenty-first century. It analyzes the occupation apparatus of surveillance, destruction and construction in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
