The BBC reported yesterday that a human rights group in Israel,
Yesh Din (translatable as "There is a judge" or "there is justice" is calling for Israel
to stop mining in the occupied territories.
From the BBC:
Yesh Din cites military documents which show nine million of the 12 million tonnes of rock and gravel mined in the West Bank each year are sold in Israel - and says Israel is "addicted to the exploitation".
It says its High Court petition addresses "the illegal practice of brutal economic exploitation of a conquered territory to serve the exclusive economic needs of the occupying power".
"According to international law, this kind of activity is a violation of occupation laws as well as of human rights laws and, in certain cases, might be defined as pillage," says the petition.
