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A bulldozer lift garbage at the Greenet recycling plant in Atarot industrial zone, near Qalandiya, on June 16, 2015. (Sindel/Flash90)

‘How Israel turned the West Bank into its garbage dump’

A new report from B’Tselem details how Israel has exploited the legal regime in the West Bank, trucking in hazardous waste to be processed in the occupied territory. Israel is taking advantage of less stringent environmental regulations in the West Bank in order to conduct much of its waste treatment in the occupied territory, according…

By Joshua Leifer December 5, 2017

Hatem Abu Ziadeh (Photo courtesy of WAC-MAAN)

Employer turns Palestinian union organizer into a ‘security threat’

Hatem Abu Ziadeh spent almost 20 years working at an auto repair shop in a West Bank industrial zone. But once he began organizing workers for better conditions, he was fired for ‘security-based reasons.’ In many respects, this is a painfully simple and well-known story: a veteran factory worker decides to unionize his fellow workers…

By Haggai Matar February 16, 2016