Israel culls hundreds of protected crocodiles on settlement farm in occupied West Bank
It claims this was necessary, citing threats to local residents and the inhumane conditions the animals were kept in.
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00:01Several hundred Nile crocodiles kept for decades on a farm in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank have been killed.
00:09They were put down on Sunday by officials from the civil administration, the army's governing body in the Palestinian Territory and the Nature and Parks Authority.
00:18It claims this was necessary, citing threats to local residents and the inhumane conditions the animals were kept in.
00:24But Israeli newspaper Haaretz is quoting the owner of the farm as saying the action was illegal and done without consulting him.
00:31Initially opened as a tourist attraction, the crocodile farm was closed to visitors during the second Palestinian Intifada, which ended in 2005.
00:40In 2012, Israel amended its laws to classify the Nile crocodile as a protected species under international treaties.
