Palestinian village fears becoming Israel's rubbish dump

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Palestinian village fears becoming Israel's rubbish dump

Palestinian village fears becoming Israel's rubbish dump

DEIR SHARAF, West Bank (AFP) - A nauseating stench rises from this disused West Bank quarry where rubbish from a Jewish settlement is slowly piling up. With thousands of tonnes more Israeli waste set to arrive, the Palestinian village of Deir Sharaf fears the worst.

The quarry, which a northern West Bank settlement has been using as a rubbish dump for the past three years, lies some 700 metres (yards) outside Deir Sharaf, a small village of 3,000 people.

Now, Israeli media have announced that around 10,000 tonnes of domestic and industrial waste produced in and around Tel Aviv is to be dumped here every month.

"What we fear most is pollution of the water table," municipal council leader Najib Sihha told AFP.

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Palestinian village fears becoming Israel's rubbish dump

Environmental Racism in Action.

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