Dr. Nisreen Tamimi

The Head of the Environmental Quality Authority

The environmental institution, in its first form, “the Palestinian Environmental Authority” was established in 1996 by a presidential decree, as an administratively and financially independent authority concerned with environmental affairs in all its aspects and leading the process of organizing work in the environmental field for its protection and maintenance. In 1998, the Ministry of Environmental Affairs was established, and the Palestinian Environmental Authority was merged into it, so that its official name in 2002 was “Environmental Quality Authority.”

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Report: 2 million tons of CO2 emissions from Israel’s demolitions of buildings in Gaza

AMMAN, Thursday, July 4, 2024 (WAFA) – The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza has resulted in significant environmental devastation, including 2 million tons of CO2 emissions, according to a report by the Environmental Quality Authority.Director of Inspection and Control at the authority, Bahjat Jabarin, presented a report of the severe environmental impacts caused by the...