{"id":122013,"date":"2018-11-12T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=122013"},"modified":"2018-11-12T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T11:39:35","slug":"israel-settlers-dump-sewage-on-palestinian-school-in-qalqiliya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/11\/israel-settlers-dump-sewage-on-palestinian-school-in-qalqiliya\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Settlers Dump Sewage on Palestinian School in Qalqiliya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_122014\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/palestinian-school-children-sewage-israel-west-bank.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122014\" class=\"wp-image-122014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/palestinian-school-children-sewage-israel-west-bank-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/palestinian-school-children-sewage-israel-west-bank-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/palestinian-school-children-sewage-israel-west-bank-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/palestinian-school-children-sewage-israel-west-bank-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/palestinian-school-children-sewage-israel-west-bank.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian school children can be seen in sewage water. [Undated file photo \/ Twitter]<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>2 Nov 2018 &#8211; <\/em>Israeli settlers dumped their sewage on a Palestinian school in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqilia yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Azzun Beit Amin School playground was flooded with sewage for the second time in two months as a result of the settlers\u2019 actions.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Alaa Marabeh said it would take more than ten days for the sewage water to dry and this has caused a foul smell to spread across the school building and risks damaging the students\u2019 health.<\/p>\n<p>The settlers live in the nearby illegal settlement of Sha\u2019arei Tikva\u00a0which is home to some 4,000 Jewish settlers.<\/p>\n<p>Since it occupied the West Bank in the Six Day War of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20170605-remembering-the-naksa\/\" >1967<\/a>, Israel has pursued a continuous policy of illegal settlement. Israeli human rights organisation <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.btselem.org\/settlements\/statistics\" >B\u2019Tselem<\/a> estimates that as of the end of 2015 there were 127 Israeli government-sanctioned settlements in the West Bank and a further 100 outposts, which do not have government recognition. Although Israel differentiates between settlements and outposts, both are illegal under <a href=\"http:\/\/v\" >Article 49<\/a> of the Fourth Geneva convention which prevents the transfer of civilian populations into occupied territory.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Read more:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20180509-israel-settlers-flood-palestinian-farmland-with-sewage\/\" >Israel settlers flood Palestinian farmland with sewage<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20181102-israel-settlers-dump-sewage-on-palestinian-school-in-qalqiliya\/?fbclid=IwAR3pPB7UM5h4QJ0Umkw-JX0EZ554xUBv9RqEGt6GrS4Uyr6fIylffrf9oQA#.W9yMm6CsqIc.facebook\" >Go to Original \u2013 middleeastmonitor.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Nov 2018 &#8211; Israeli settlers dumped their sewage on a Palestinian school in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqilia yesterday. The Azzun Beit Amin School playground was flooded with sewage for the second time in two months as a result of the settlers\u2019 actions. Principal Alaa Marabeh said it would take more than ten days for the sewage water to dry and this has caused a foul smell to spread across the school building and risks damaging the students\u2019 health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":122014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}