Settlers flood Palestinian fields in Nahalin town with sewage

BETHLEHEM, (The Palestine Information Centre)Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank dumped on Saturday morning their wastewater into Palestinian agricultural lands in western Bethlehem, causing large-scale air, water, and soil pollution.

According to local official Hasan Berejiya, settlers from the illegal settlement of Beitar Illit opened sewage drains and flooded swaths of Palestinian-owned land in Nahalin town, damaging dozens of dunums of land planted with different types of crops.

The affected area also includes a water spring, Berejiya pointed out.

Different Jewish settlements in the West Bank have been pumping their sewage directly into nearby Palestinian towns and villages for years, creating a dangerous and unhealthy situation for local residents and contaminating soil, groundwater, and crops.