Israel’s environmental colonialism causes cancer
JVL Introduction
Up to 1,000 tonnes of Israel’s electronic waste is being dumped into the West Bank leading to a rise in cancers, birth defects and also industrial injuries for Palestinians handling this toxic waste. Last October, reports emerged of Israel dumping construction waste into Gaza on top of the rubble from the pulverisation of the Strip. This article reveals the serious impact of Israel’s apartheid waste disposal practices on Palestinian lives in the West Bank.
Israel has strict laws about disposing of waste but nothing to prevent companies taking their waster to the West Bank where these laws – like so many others – do not apply. With soil pollution and terrible smells, this also contributes to the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
Israel’s dumping of rubbish into the West Bank, especially that known to be toxic, not meeting its own environmental standards, is also a violation of international law to add to so many others.
This article was originally published by New Arab on Sat 20 Jun 2026. Read the original here.
Israeli dumping and burning of electronic waste in West Bank causes rise in cancer, birth defects
Israel is bypassing its own environmental regulations to dump electronic waste in the West Bank, leading to injuries, cancer, and birth defects
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Lebanese turtle conservationist Mona Khalil has just been murdered by Israel. As usual instead of a direct connection, the BBC describe it as if it was done as a haphazard consequence of Israel’s divine right to bomb Lebanon. Khalil “died after being wounded in an Israeli strike.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwylx1vq18zo
this brings to mind the infamous 12 December 1991 memo in which World Bank vice-president and Chief Economist Larry Summers (Jewish, irrelevant!] suggested that if exporting toxic waste to impoverished Third World countries could be viewed through the prism of economics as a net gain in welfare in Developed countries it might be a jolly good idea. It turned out that the memo was authored by a subordinate, and intended to be ‘ironic’. Nevertheless that memo dogged Summers’ career for a decade. No room for irony in this story about Israel deliberately poisoning Palestinian land. Maybe, nowadays, it might be easier to hunt down articles about what neo-Kahanist Über-Zionist Israel is NOT doing to make the lives of Palestinians unliveable. Google Search AI has failed to find any. It’s not that neo-Kahanist Über-Zionist Israel is eschewing anti-Palestinian practices of which they are apprised but which they have adjudged to be BEYOND THE PALE. Perish the thought. It is that even the storied Jewish genius cannot know everything. Yet. I thought the Cunning Plan to bulldoze the x billion tonnes of rubble that is Gaza now, into the the Med. for hard core to ‘reclaim land’ (reclaim?) was a [typically] Jewish brainchild. Turns out it was the Lightbulb Moment of the Palestinian (Gazan) tasked with coming up with innovative engineering solutions to Gaza’s blasted nouveau-Guernica landscape. Not much has been seen of him. I wonder if anybody has thought to ask Ben-Gvir where he might be.
Comment?? A comment is a civilised response. This report calls for outrage!!! It should be the headline and front page news of every newspaper on earth, condemning Benjamin Netanyahu, his government and the Israeli people who support him. Condemning every world leader who is allowing this to happen as a supporter of fascism and mass murder, starting with Donald Trump and Keir Starmer. Who will take them all to the International Criminal Court for judgement, condemnation and imprisonment for life? When will the United Nations rise up and stop this horror show instead of wasting everyone’s days reading out two-minute statements that represent inaction? We are all losing our humanity in tolerating this mass murder, poison and destruction with every day that passes!!! There has not been one minute of peace or support for the lives of the people of Gaza for decades.
Shocking on at least 4 points:
Health impact on local residents
Lack of proper recycling facilities
Overconsumption of resources.
Illegal actions by Israel