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Israel Declares West Bank Waste Fires ‘Environmental Terrorism,’ Launches Seizure-Funded Cleanup Plan
On 18 Dec 2025 Israel’s finance and defense ministers re-classified Palestinian waste-burning in the West Bank as a national-security threat and approved an open-ended emergency program that lets the IDF confiscate Palestinian garbage trucks, build a new landfill, and bill every shekel to the Palestinian Authority.