NAZARETH (PIC)– In an unprecedented step a special committee in the Israeli environment ministry has decided to allow Israeli factories to dump their chemical waste in the Dead Sea after chemically treating them.
The decision of the committee which was headed by the ministry’s under-secretary Yosi Anber contradicts opinions and recommendations of ecologists and environment experts including a number of experts in the ministry itself.
Environment advocates were alarmed by that decision affirming that dumping factories’ waste in the Dead Sea would worsen ecological conditions in it further as its water was starting to dry out and thus they asserted the decision would inflict big ecological damage on that Sea.
The Palestinian national bureau for its part warned of the increase of ecological pollution that threaten the Dead Sea and urged concerned Palestinian and Jordanian parties to take the matter seriously.
According to the bureau the decision was unprecedented and would adversely harm environment in Palestine and the entire region especially that the Dead Sea suffers a lot of ecological problems that make the decision unwarranted.
In this context the bureau urged Arab and international organizations concerned with environment to immediately condemn such a decision and to work hard to prevent such polluting acts.
