ISRAELI PLANES SPRAY CHEMICALS ON NEGEV PALESTINIANS
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j corlett
Nov 9, 2005, 12:50:52 AM11/9/05
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Northstar Compass (416) 977-5819 Vol. 11, #8 4/03 P. 28-9
ISRAELI PLANES SPRAY CHEMICALS ON NEGEV PALESTINIANS
Israeli light planes carrying toxic chemicals raided arable lands owned by the southern Negev Palestinian inhabitants, and sprayed prohibited chemicals over the area. Many residents, including children were made ill, some very dangerously. Large numbers of cattle were poisoned. In addition to the destruction of the crops that were cultivated on these lands.
In a distributed press statement, of which the IPC got a copy from the Al Andalus Society in the Negev area, said that many Israeli planes sprayed toxic chemicals over a wide area of arable lands owned by the inhabitants, who are mainly Bedouins and live on agriculture and raising cattle.
Eyewitnesses said that many children were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment, and the medical sources described their condition as critical. The toxic materials caused the death of many cattle, plus gross damage to a number of houses and cultivated lands. The toxic substance is known for its hazardous effects on human life and destruction of the environment for tens of years.
This raid was not the first of its kind in targeting the native Palestinians and their way of life. The 120,000 inhabitants, most of which live in unrecognized and abandoned villages in the desert, lack the most basic of services. Part of them are still living in tents, as a way to express their objections to the Israeli occupation's policies that aim to strip them of their lands and financial compensation, and then move them to villages with a totally different and unacceptable way of life. These people still pay a large price for being on their land.
The Society appealed to all the living consciences in the world to urgently intervene and stop these Israeli barbaric acts of racial extermination against the Palestinians in the Negev area. They also called on the world media to shed some light over their situation, as a part of the forgotten and marginalized Arab population inside Israel, in order to expose the racist actions committed against them by the government of Israel.
Eyewitnesses said that many children were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment, and the medical sources described their condition as critical. The toxic materials caused the death of many cattle, plus gross damage to a number of houses and cultivated lands. The toxic substance is known for its hazardous effects on human life and destruction of the environment for tens of years.
This raid was not the first of its kind in targeting the native Palestinians and their way of life. The 120,000 inhabitants, most of which live in unrecognized and abandoned villages in the desert, lack the most basic of services. Part of them are still living in tents, as a way to express their objections to the Israeli occupation's policies that aim to strip them of their lands and financial compensation, and then move them to villages with a totally different and unacceptable way of life. These people still pay a large price for being on their land.
The Society appealed to all the living consciences in the world to urgently intervene and stop these Israeli barbaric acts of racial extermination against the Palestinians in the Negev area. They also called on the world media to shed some light over their situation, as a part of the forgotten and marginalized Arab population inside Israel, in order to expose the racist actions committed against them by the government of Israel.
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