The victims of the Israel-Palestine conflict have been proven to be much more than the innocent civilians who are considered as collateral damage. The age old war that has claimed thousands of lives over the years has turned uglier and is proving itself cause for a greater pain to the ecosystem in general. In fact, the gruesome happenings at zoos across Gaza will leave you with a pit in your stomach. This is what the Gaza zoos looks like now. There is a constant tussle between the IDF and Palestinian radical groups that have been affecting Gaza for years. And civilians are not the only beings suffering the onslaught of this war. A number of zoos in the Gaza region and their inmates have been facing the wrath of this violence in untold ways. Zoos, in my opinion are an incredibly disheartening and almost useless establishment, to begin with. Apart from just bad management and infrastructure, having caged animals in a war stricken zone is an extremely bad decision that doesn't need to be brought to light more than once.

Years of ongoing conflict between the two organisations have tainted the zoos of Gaza with a grizzly sight.

Dozens of zoo animals have now been left mummified and frozen in what seems to have been a harrowing and painful death. Suffering neglect and hunger, the body count within the zoos of Gaza is rising with each passing day.

The leading cause of deaths is starvation due to inadequate care-taking caused by the ongoing civil conflict.

The South Forest Park that started back in 2007 is one such example. Founded by Mohammed Awaida, who invested lakhs into creating the establishment, the zoo lost an enormous number of animals within the fist year when 3 weeks of continuous attacks left Awaida incapable of attending to the animals. The animals eventually succumbed to starvation in a heart-wrenching manner.