Source: Arutz Sheva
A Jewish town in Samaria plans to sue the French news agency AFP [AFP has close links to the Quai d'Orsay, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs] for libel for reporting it flooded an Arab olive grove with its sewage. The latest AFP article on the olive harvest follows an increasingly long line of anti-Israeli reports based almost solely on reports from Arabs and left-wing activists, including anarchists. AFP quoted an Arab farmer in a nearby village who went to harvest his olive crop and "could hardly see the land – it was flooded with sewage and chemicals", resulting in 2,000 trees dying.
However, Elon Moreh has an advanced water waste treatment facility that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to build, according to Gershon Mesika, chairman of the Samaria (Shomron) Regional Council. The water also is used for irrigation. It is doubtful the water, a scarce and expensive commodity in Israel due to four years of drought, would be wasted. Mesika said he will file a libel suit against AFP.
He added that "those who are polluting the area actually are Arab villages, which despite our offer to connect to the sewage treatment facility avoid doing so because of threats from the Palestinian Authority"."
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