As well as covering ecological issues, this protest draws attention to an egregious example of the expropriation of Palestinian land.
972 magazine reports that climate justice and human rights activists from the ‘One Climate’ group chained themselves to entrance of an Israeli quarry to protest the theft of Palestinian land and destruction of local ecology.
Palestinians themselves could not join the protest because the quarry is located on the “Israeli” side of the separation fence.
“We came to stop the destruction, to make the connection between the occupation and annexation and climate,” said Mor Gilboa, one of the leaders of One Climate, who chained himself to the entrance of the quarry. “The plan to expand the quarry is not only being carries for economic reasons, but also to create contiguity from the settlement of Elkana to Rosh HaAyin,” he said.
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