Excess soil from Tel Aviv construction sites used to expand West Bank farms and outposts

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'The West Bank is for Israel both the holiest place in the world,' researcher Dror Etkes told Haaretz, 'and the place to dump all the waste it doesn't know what to do with ... especially if that waste can help settlers seize more agricultural land from Palestinians'

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Excess soil from construction sites in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area is being used to prepare land for the expansion of settler farms and outposts in the West Bank.