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A fire lit to burn waste in the West Bank, as seen from the northern Israeli town of Harish, October 2025. (Dolev Hilell)
December 17, 2025, 3:23 pm
‘Stay indoors’: Health Ministry tells central town to shelter due to toxic waste fires
In rare move, ministry instructs some Shoham residents to close windows, turn off air conditioning to protect themselves from pollution from illegal West Bank fires
By Sue Surkes
A waste dump visited by Environment Protection Ministry inspectors, June 2023. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
June 18, 2023, 11:12 pm
Ministry finds most electronic waste treatment sites are violating environment laws
Inspection follows March warning to scrapyards that they could face $180,000 fines if found to be working without the necessary equipment and facilities to minimize pollution
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image of radioactive waste barrels. (vchal, iStock at Getty Images)
September 12, 2022, 3:13 pm
Agricultural research body stored barrels of radioactive waste for years — report
Environmental Protection Ministry says the waste, recently removed from Rishon Lezion facility, was stored correctly and posed no risk
By Sue Surkes
One of phosphate plants. (Shay Levy/Flash90)
February 7, 2022, 7:12 pm
Government issues plan to cut red tape in environmental licensing, help business
Proposals include expanding right of businesses to appeal; advocacy group urges, ‘Don’t let bureaucratic simplification water down environmental demands’
By Sue Surkes
Maysoon Sweity, a 54-year-old Palestinian from Beit Awwa, sits on the roof of her home and watches as e-waste and garbage burns near the concrete wall separating her village from Israel on April 26, 2019. (Tamir Kalifa)
January 10, 2022, 2:27 pm
A deadly trash trade is poisoning Palestinians in the West Bank
Burning Israeli scrap for valuable raw metals is a lethal livelihood for thousands of Palestinians, sending cancer rates skyrocketing in villages near Hebron
By Aaron Boxerman
Phosphogypsum waste at Rotem Amfert in the Negev, southern Israel. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
December 22, 2021, 10:21 pm
Polluting company agrees to clean up in return for extension of Negev concession
Rotem Amfert and parent company the ICL Group guarantee to address decades of waste caused by phosphorus mining, rehabilitate soil and water
By Sue Surkes
A barrel sits on the seafloor near the coast of Catalina Island, California, where marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT, March 2021. (David Valentine/UC Santa Barbara / RV Jason, via AP)
April 27, 2021, 8:02 pm
US scientists claim to find huge Pacific dump site of 25,000 toxic DDT barrels
With underwater drones using sonar technology, oceanographers map ‘staggering’ quantities of chemical waste on seafloor between Santa Catalina Island and Los Angeles coast
By JULIE WATSON
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