Today (Saturday) a sewage truck was recorded pouring its contents in Nahal Etziona.
The Gush Etzion Land Center received the report and managed to detain the truck at Givot Junction until the arrival of the security forces who took it to the confiscation lot in Htmar Etzion - where the truck was confiscated. This is the exact same truck that was recorded last July pouring its contents into Nahal Hataz.
The sewage truck in Nahal Etziona,
The security forces stop the truck,
It is the same truck
As you may recall, last July a reporter from "Israel Today" passed near Nahal Hataz in Gush Etzion and documented a Palestinian truck driver who poured the contents of his truck into the stream and continued to the west - towards Beit Shemesh and from there to the southern central cities.
The Gush Etzion Land Center stated that it was the same truck.
Documentation: A Palestinian truck driver pollutes a river // Photo: Hanan Greenwood
The stream that is known in Gush Etzion as "the tree stream" and which begins in the vineyard area of Kibbutz Rosh Tzorim in the center of Gush Etzion is not one of the significant hiking routes in the area, among other things because it ends on the outskirts of Kfar Nachalin.
During a random off-road bike ride organized by a number of riders from Gush Etzion settlements, the truck driver was discovered pouring his contents into the stream, blatantly ignoring the severe damage to the environment.
When he recognized that he was being photographed, he claimed that "this is the first time I do this" and hurried to run away from the scene.
traveler and polluter.
The truck driver at the time of the act, photo: Hanan Greenwood
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