Fire Area Cartel: About 2,000 Cannabis Growing Greenhouses Destroyed in 2021

The known phenomenon of closed military areas being turned into land for cannabis growing by criminals has gained momentum in recent years, while police and the IDF have been trying to combat it. In the past year, more than 2 million seedlings and hundreds of empty greenhouses were destroyed.

Amir Bohbot

10/01/2022

Monday, 10 January 2022, 21:44 Updated: 21:45

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In the video: Exposing and burning drug incubators (Photo: IDF Spokesman, Editing: Lear Spiegler)

Dozens of illegal cannabis-growing greenhouses were destroyed yesterday (Sunday) in broad color by the IDF, police and the Green Patrol as part of efforts to combat the criminal phenomenon. How they destroy the seedlings and burn the greenhouses.

According to military sources, "The operation is part of the campaign in the Negev to increase governance in the Negev and the war on crime in the area.

"IDF forces in the various units assisted in the operation to destroy the drug greenhouses in the fire areas."

Army data shows that in 2021, about 1,122 active drug incubators, 341 empty drug incubators, more than a million seedlings, 49 seedling drying facilities and 1,958 kg of dry drug substance were destroyed.

Illegal cannabis cultivation laboratory (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)

Major General Arkady Schuster, commander of the Negev YSM, who led the activity in the field, said: In the Negev region and in the areas of fire. "

The commander of the Southern Region in the Green Patrol, Ohad Yahalomi, commented on the operation: "Dozens of greenhouses are evacuated every week, and more than two million seedlings were destroyed during this period and over 2,000 greenhouses in the southern areas by the Green Patrol. Dry material ready for marketing. In the last two years, patrol inspectors and Negev police have evacuated about 2,000 greenhouses and destroyed over two million seedlings. "

Deputy Commander of the Land Training Center at Tze'elim Base, Col. Nati Keren, said: His forces for the day of command. "

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