Afaq / Horizons magazine has been given exclusive information that huge amounts of Israeli contaminated organic waste is being  dumped into the Jordan Valley . The waste is  from   hundreds of thousands of Israeli homes and settlements in the West Bank. The contaminated solid waste is being dumped in open lands. The waste is organic and inorganic pollutants that has been partially covered with  soil. It  is spread over  thousands of acres west of the Jordan River and north of Jericho.  The landfills emit toxic  gases  from  the burning of the waste and its decomposition.

This dumping and accumulation  of waste is hazardous to the environment. It pollutes the soil, natural springs and groundwater. It's presence in such close proximity to the local population has affected children  with dehydration and  respiratory problems. Dehydration came  as a result of diarrhea and prolonged bowel problems that are a direct result from the pollutants.

According to the Israeli Environmental Ministry nearly half a million Israeli homes in 49 municipalities are engaged in the process of separation of organic solid waste. Israeli environmental and human rights organizations revealed that the Israeli Ministry of Environment granted a license for the transfer of contaminated soil from 1948   territory  into the West Bank. It was transported  to the “Compost Or” Israeli facility  in the Palestinian Jordan Valle. Adjacent to the settlement there is a waste management  facility for processing of approximately  half the amount of toxic sludge produced from the Israeli wastewater treatment plants; The sludge produced from the facility  is a mixture of solid organic and inorganic substances that contain harmful  bacterial and biological pollutants.
Within the past year, Afaak/Horizons has discovered an Israeli factory manufacturing fertilizers  called " Tov Lam ". It is located east of “Miswa” settlement in the heart of the Palestinian Jordan Valley and is backed by French investors.  Afaq /Horizons magazine has learned that laboratory tests have proved that the Israeli fertilizer contain  high concentration  of toxic elements produced by the facility and marketed in the Palestinian areas of the Jordan Valley.

There are  health risks from the spread of contamination from contaminated soils to the Palestinian population. The polluted soils can cause serious damage to agricultural lands in the Jordan Valley, These lands are within meters from the Israeli contaminated soils; as well as polluting the groundwater.