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UK Human Rights Blog (blog)
March 18, 2018
According to Israeli humans rights NGO B'Tselem, Israel has demolished at least 1,323 Palestinian residential units in the occupied West Bank, plus over ... by Israeli authorities such as designating areas as “state land”, closed military zones (20% of the West Bank), and nature reserves or national parks.
EcoWatch
March 16, 2018
Gaza's problems with water have been a recurring theme since Israel imposed an air, land and sea blockade on the coastal enclave in 2007 to squeeze the government set up by Hamas, a group Israel has been tangled in conflict with since the early 2000s, when it carried out dozens of suicide bombings against IsraeliÃâà...
Common Dreams
March 14, 2018
While Israel has met its water needs with desalinated water, building the world's largest reverse osmosis plant only 30 miles north of Gaza, similar facilities in Gaza lack the electricity to run at full capacity. The Gaza Valley was once a nature reserve, known for hosting migratory birds, but has been destroyedÃâà...
Pacific Standard
March 14, 2018
Gaza's problems with water have been a recurring theme since Israel imposed an air, land, and sea blockade on the coastal enclave in 2007 to ... set up by Hamas, a group Israel has been tangled in conflict with since the early 2000s, when it carried out dozens of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.
ISRAEL21c
March 7, 2018
In the early months of the year, Israel is transformed from a dry, brown desert into a stunning landscape of green. By Nicky ... Spring in any country is beautiful, but in Israel, where most of the year the landscape is a parched brown, it holds extra resonance. UNCOVER ... The Tavor Stream nature reserve.
Haaretz
February 25, 2018
Tsadeq informed attorney Netta Amar-Shiff that on Thursday he reported the outpost to the Palestinian Civilian Affairs Committee and that the (Israeli) District Coordination and Liaison (DCL) Office had promised that ... Another outpost was set up in the nature reserve of Umm Zuka, close to a military base.
Breaking Israel News
February 18, 2018
... nature reserve on the weekend and all of a sudden a fighter jet goes down near you. You immediately hear sirens going off, and buzzing alerts on your phone. What do you do? Panic? Run? Check on your loved ones' safety? Well, if you were one of the 100,000 people in northern Israel's nature reservesÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Being amphibian, salamanders are dependent on moist or wet environments, and she indeed observed fewer salamanders at the Tel Dan nature reserve on Israel's northern border because of the low rains, Rybak told Haaretz. Ultimately Israel, too, is short of data on the salamander. "Our survey is only inÃâà...
ISRAEL21c
December 31, 1999
Glimpses of Israeli pop culture show how this pervasive issue affected Israel in years past and the heartening progress made in recent years. .... The song addresses the point that while already in 1964, the Knesset had passed the Nature Reserves and National Parks Law, including a section related to theÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
The Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry is offering a reward for every wolf that cattle and sheep farmers kill in an effort to stop wolves from preying on farmers' calves and sheep. The program, which provides 2,000 shekels ($580) for hunting down a mature wolf and 500 shekels per cub, is beingÃâà...
JerusalemOnline
December 31, 1999
Some 120,000 people visited Israel's nature reserves and national parks on Saturday thanks to the pleasant weather. Among the most popular sites were Ein Gedi, Banias, Masada and the Caesarea Maritima. Special activities were held at the Banias today to mark the eighth year of the site's suspensionÃâà...
