A sickening viral video has sparked outrage across Israel after a Palestinian filmed himself dumping a massive payload of raw sewage straight into a local river as he bragged about it.
One outraged Israeli wrote, “Where is Greta [Thunberg]? Where are the tree-huggers here who won’t let us build and develop out of all their worries about the environment? And on top of that, we need to give them a ‘state’!” Another echoed, “The best way to understand who the land truly belongs to. A person does not pollute the land of his ancestors.”
The footage, which lit up social media, shows the operator of a liquid waste tanker draining filthy effluent directly into the waterway. “These are the deeds of ours that we take pride in and boast about,” the Palestinian proudly declared on camera as the sludge poured into the water.
While the river dumping raised immediate alarms over contaminated water supplies and habitat destruction, local farmers say it’s just the latest chapter in a Palestinian pattern of destruction targeting Israel’s agricultural heartland.
For years, growers in the Negev, Galilee, and the Jezreel Valley have complained of rampant agricultural terrorism. Local producers say Pale...