Adham Bassiouni head of Integrated Pest Management Department at the Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza said that Israeli planes Monday morning sprayed the border line east of Rafah and Khan Younis with toxic pesticides which damaged a large number of green crops.
In an exclusive statement to the PIC Engineer Bassiouni condemned the Israeli violation revealing that the ministry has no accurate data on the losses yet.
The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture had previously appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in order to get acquainted with the Israeli pesticides spray dates.
Israeli authorities claimed that it would be conducted in the period between December 25 2016 and January 05 2017. However it was done again on Monday suddenly without a prior notice Bassiouni highlighted.
