"Green" activists seek to overturn housing plan for homeless Gush Katif refugees
By: Israel Insider staff
Published: October 10, 2007
Environmentalists from the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) are scheduled to present their petition against the resettlement of the Gush Katif evacuees at Mirsham in the East Lachish region, the Jerusalem Post reported.
On November 5, representatives from SPNI will formally oppose the plan, citing concern that the housing development could interfere with global warming monitoring and could disrupt an internationally significant bird migration corridor.
"Wherever the Gush Katif settlers want to build, they get one answer from the environmentalists: 'You're ruining the environment,'" Rachel Saperstein said, a future resident of the disputed community of Hazan. "I believe they are more concerned with migratory birds than with Jews who have no homes."
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