The town of Kafr Aqil, north of occupied Jerusalem, has been suffering for several weeks from a suffocating crisis due to the unprecedented congestion of waste in the streets and public roads amid charges of the municipality of the occupation of intentional inaction, according to the town’s residents.
The head of the neighborhoods committee said Jerusalem Northern and one of the residents Disbelief Munir Zghir – Al Jazeera Net – The crisis was exacerbated when the occupation soldiers began to be stationed at Qalandia checkpoint By preventing the passage of waste collections by heading to its usual dug, and forcing them to the behavior of ways of deviation, which led to a significant increase in the costs and duration of transportation.
Zoghir pointed out that the number of cleaners and garbage containers in Kafr after is not commensurate with the population, who make up about 20% of the total population of the city of Jerusalem. However, the occupation municipality is only allocated to the town of 7% of the hygiene budget, instead of 20%, which is the supposed percentage according to the population.
Citizens – Al Jazeera Net – said that they are committed to paying all the taxes imposed by the occupation municipality in Jerusalem, but in return they face a clear neglect of basic services, especially waste collection.
One of them explained that an employee in the municipality recently informed them of the decision to prevent the opening of a special office to receive citizens’ complaints.
The speakers pointed to what the residents suffer from the accumulation of waste, especially near schools and the homes of citizens, in addition to some resorting to burning garbage, which causes the emission of suffocating smells and carcinogenic pollutants that affect public health.
In addition to the negative impact of this crisis on shop owners who suffer from the lack of buyers due to the non -system of places in the vicinity of their stores.