Israeli occupation authorities are set to establish a waste-to-energy plant in Ma’ale Adumim, a major illegal settlement in the central West Bank, according to human rights NGO B’Tselem, “unlawfully exploiting Palestinian territory for its own needs”.
Earlier this month, the Israeli government issued a tender for the establishment of the plant, at an estimated cost of some one billion shekels ($284 million).
Israel to establish waste-to-energy plant in settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, unlawfully exploiting Palestinian territory for its own needs – https://t.co/2BtyBwSrfz via @btselem #Palestine #Occupation pic.twitter.com/TcQvaynRJH
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B’Tselem noted that while such a development appears “ecologically positive”, building the plant in the West Bank is a violation of “the prohibition in international law on exploiting resources in an occupied territory for the benefit of the occupying power”.
Furthermore, the human rights group added, “if established, the plant will be built without taking the Palestinian population of the West Bank and its views on the matter into account.”
UK parliamentarians write to @UNHumanRights Chief @mbachelet urging them to publish the database listing companies involved in activities in illegal Israeli settlements which infringe the human rights of Palestinians. Letter sent from @PalestineAPPG & @RichardBurdenMP pic.twitter.com/1UNMfGiGlA
— APPG on Palestine (@PalestineAPPG) September 26, 2019
The occupied Palestinian population “are the ones to pay the price for this environmental damage, even though they were never asked their opinion on the matter and although, as a population under occupation, they have no political power and no real ability to resist,” the NGO added.
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