Invisible Killers: How the Environmental Biome and Lack of Workplace Safety Ergonomics Has Played an Outcome in the Recent Israel Hamas War

Israel and Palestine is a forever war zone, because the conflict here is going on for a very long time with no end in sight. The most recent conflict was triggered after the events of October 7th where Hamas launched an attack on Israel as a response to their transgressions on the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Israeli defense forces had launched a ground offensive after the Israeli Air Forces launches multiple airstrikes on different parts of Gaza strip. Little did they know they were walking into a trap created by themselves. Several civilians were trapped un- der the buildings had died and their corpses released bacteria, viruses, fungi and other pathogens into the environment. This was exacerbated by the IDF bull- dozers which dug up sewage systems and airstrikes had destroyed the sewage treatment plants exposing the IDF to these harmful pathogens. Due to corruption in the Israeli political brass, they had to rely on food donations from fast food giants like KFC, McDonalds and supermarket giant Carrefour, as per multiple reports these places where the cause of food poisonings and superbug infestations. Unsurprisingly, the same infections were reported in the IDF soldiers who were stationed in Gaza. Hamas weren’t exposed the pathogens as they were in well-sealed of tunnels eplaining their sudden success in the battlefield as workplace safety ergonomics and the environmental biome has played crucial unexpected role in the outcome of this war. Practical Implications: The purpose of this study is to conduct a meta-analysis of various reports available online about the events, workplace safety practices of the said entities involved in the conflict to give evidence for why the environmental biome and the lack of workplace safety ergonomics played a big role in Hamas’s victory. We additionally conduct a basic image processing study on footage of IDF soldiers to showcase how they had not taken safety precautions which contributed to their psychological breakdowns.