Pollution increases with enforced demolitions

The concrete skin continues to spread over Palestine/Israel in a grim contrast with the Israeli promo films, mostly crafted in a digital 'studio', while greenery shrinks and homes are flattened. Here are two recent examples, from f_shadi's news round-up:

Palestinian villages struggle as Israeli settlement waste contaminates the environment
Mondoweiss 7 Aug by Marta Fortunato -- "The bad odor is constant here and nowadays it has become normal to find rodents and insects in this area," Ahmed, a resident of Burin, tells staring at the smelly polluted water flowing less than 10 meters from the houses of his village located between Salfit and Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank -- "It's not only about the smell. In the village a lot of people suffer from skin diseases, asthmas, and other illnesses." The waste water stemming from Ariel settlement has played a major role in the contamination of water and in the pollution of the environment in the Salfit area. Due to the concentration of pollutant elements in this zone, many agricultural fields have been destroyed and many animals and plants have been killed. Moreover, many infectious waterborne diseases, like diarrhoea, have broken out especially among children.http://mondoweiss.net/2012/08/palestinian-villages-struggle-as-israeli-settlement-waste-contaminates-the-environment.html

Settlers inaugurate park built on seized Palestinian land
BETHLEHEM, August 9, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Thursday announced the opening of a park built on land seized from Palestinians from the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, according to a local activist. Coordinator of the committee against the Apartheid Wall, Ahmad Salah, told WAFA that Efrat settlers announced the opening of the new park during a big ceremony. The settlers first started working on the project in 2000, taking advantage of al-Aqsa Intifada and unstable political conditions, and took over large area of land. Salah said that they took over a well that was used to water crops and feed Solomon's Pools.http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=20436