An illegal Palestinian waste site is being rehabilitated by the Civil Administration for hundreds of thousands of shekels.
The High Court ruled to delete the petition according to which the criminals will bear the costs.
This week the High Court rejected the petition of the Regavim movement demanding to collect from the Palestinian criminals the cost of the rehabilitation of an illegal waste site in Binyamin, and to prosecute them. In doing so, the state's claim that it operates according to priorities and with limited resources and that the dumping of waste at the site is carried out by Various factors whose identity is unknown.
Pollution without enforcement.
Pirate dump, archive, photo: Lior Mizrahi
This statement is inconsistent with the state's statements in July 2020 and January 2021 that trucks and a tractor were confiscated at the site and that the owners of the vehicles were required to pay a fine and were required to clear the waste and level the area.
However, the state claimed that the court's intervention in the professional judgment is not justified and as mentioned, the judges accepted their position and the petition was deleted.
During 2019, the Regavim movement recognized that Palestinians had taken over the natural space in Area C near the Psagot junction in Binyamin, and began to dump huge amounts of waste there and burn it.
After that, an application was submitted to the authorities, demanding that they take supervisory and enforcement actions against the illegal dump and demanding that they initiate criminal proceedings against the perpetrators.
No enforcement, no control, photo: Gideon Markovich
At the end of 2021, the Civil Administration announced that it had carried out a project to clear and restore the landfill at a cost of NIS 370,098, which was paid from its budget, and also stated that it did not have information on the identity of the perpetrators, and here, last February, trucks were recorded returning to dump garbage at the site and every week a heavy cloud of smoke rises from the burning of the waste.
At this point, the Regevs decided to petition the High Court, claiming that the conduct of the Civil Administration does not comply with proper administrative rules, and that it is unlikely that the public treasury will finance the cost of removing the illegal dump at a cost of hundreds of thousands of shekels, while the perpetrators will not only not be prosecuted at all, despite their identity known to the authorities, but they will also return to dump waste on the spot. The judges of the High Court were not convinced and stated in the verdict that "we have not found grounds for judicial intervention", for the time being, the garbage continues to pile up.
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