Illegal settlers deliberately pump their wastewater into those areas on a regular basis. This causes serious environmental pollution and health hazard.

Illegal Jewish settlers pumped wastewater into Palestinian agricultural lands on Saturday, in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, polluting crops and a water spring, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

Hasan Breijieh, director of the Bethlehem office of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, told WAFA that settlers from the illegal settlement of Bitar Illit pumped their wastewater into Nahalin lands contaminating a water spring the residents use for various purposes and agricultural land planted with different types of crops.

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Breijieh explained that the illegal settlers deliberately pump their wastewater into those areas on a regular basis. This causes serious environmental pollution and health hazard.

The illegal settlement of Bitar Illit has been built on Palestinian lands, illegally seized from the villages of Nahalin, Wadi Fukin and Husan.

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.

(PC, WAFA)