Around one thousand Palestinians were infected by polluted water and were treated in Marda village clinic while others were transferred to Salfit hospital in the northern West Bank on Thursday.
The Palestinian ministry of health said that the citizens were infected by the polluted water poured by the nearby Ariel settlement bloc into the village’s main water spring. They complained of stomach ache and nausea.
According to Palestinian officials and experts about 60 percent of all Israeli waste is disposed of in the occupied Palestinian territories in flagrant violation of international law and environment protection laws.
