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Palestinian olive groves severely damaged by Israeli sewage disposal

Thursday 20-September-2018

Ecologists and farmers have sounded alarm bells over the acute damage wrought by Israel’s sewage disposal pouring into Palestinian olive groves in Salfit.

Reporting from the scene eye-witnesses said Palestinian cultivated lands have been terribly tainted by sewage waste spilling from the Israeli Baduel settlement built on Palestinian lands in Salfit.

Researcher Khaled Maali warned of the tragic fallouts of sewage waste mingled with industrial chemicals which has been pouring into Palestinian springs and streams from 25 Israeli settlements and industrial zones.

Salfit home to natural masterpieces and prolific agricultural output has been turned into a source of epidemics infectious diseases insects rodents pigs and stench due to Israel’s untreated sewage disposal and frenzied settlement activity.

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