Palestinian report: The IOA buries radioactive waste in the West Bank

11 August 2007

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- An official report issued by the General Directorate for Information in the PA revealed that the IOA have been burying thousands of tons of radioactive waste produced by Israeli nuclear reactors as well as other waste from the Israeli settlements in the West Bank for many years.

The report charged that the Israeli act conflicts with international laws and covenants, because of the fatal cancerous diseases it has caused to many Palestinian citizens, and appealed to UN to intervene to stop this action "because of its danger to human life, animal, plant and water in the Palestinian land."

Palestinian doctors had uncovered recently a serious increase in the incidence of cancer in the villages located in the southern mountains of Al-Khalil in the southern West Bank, and amongst Palestinians in the Negev, in addition to the growing incidence of infertility and birth deformities.