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Israel has long attempted to ethnically cleanse Palestinians by using the occupied West Bank as a toxic waste dumping ground. According to Hala Yacoub, this reinforces why Palestine's liberation is also an environmental justice struggle.
In the early 1970s, Golda Meir’s government poisoned the lands of Aqraba in the West Bank to force out its Palestinian inhabitants and clear the way for an illegal Jewish settlement.
Israel used “toxic” chemicals to poison Palestinian agricultural lands and destroy their crops to implement the project of constructing settlements in the occupied West Bank in the 1970s, according to newly-revealed documents.