Israeli soldiers prefer to watch from a distance Israeli soldiers watch Azun from a distance, but are never around when the trucks arrive full of Israeli waste. The government says both sides suffer from illegal dumping. But as Palestinians and Israelis struggle for control of the land they are killing it. Raw sewage and industrial waste from both Arab towns and Jewish settlements flows down the valley polluting everything in sight. The two sides cannot agree on something as fundamental as sewage treatment.
Environmentalists try to influence decision-makers on both sides to go above the politics.
The pollution is such, that in the end, the land may not be worth fighting for. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.