Israel Clears the Way for Crocodile Moats to Encircle Prisons
The reclassification lets security bodies keep Nile crocodiles under conditions, clearing the pilot plan after lawyers said it lacked legal authority.
- On Friday, Environment Minister Idit Silman reclassified Nile crocodiles as 'tended wild animals,' removing legal barriers to National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's plan to introduce reptiles at Ketziot Prison.
- Ben-Gvir proposed the plan last December, modeling it after Florida's defunct 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention facility to enhance security and deter escapes at the desert complex.
- The decree bypassed objections from the Environmental Protection Ministry's legal adviser and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, while rights groups described the plan as 'psychological intimidation.'
- Abdullah Al-Zaghari, head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, said the plan reflects 'an unprecedented level of punitive policies' intended to entrench an environment founded on fear.
- Critics warn such spectacles signal a descent into 'sadistic brutality,' with experts arguing the government uses these measures to deflect from internal crises while targeting Palestinian detainees.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman has reclassified crocodiles from wild animals to "captive-bred wildlife", a move that clears the way for the reptiles to be used for security pu
Israeli Environment Minister Idit Silman has classified crocodiles as "captive-bred wild animals" rather than wild animals, a change that allows the reptiles to be used for security purposes, including to deter prison escapes.
Israel has amended the regulations on Nile crocodiles to allow their use for security purposes, including to discourage attempts to escape from prison, informs AFP, taken over by Agerpres. Israel's Minister of Environmental Protection, Idit Silman, reclassified Nile crocodiles from the category of wild animals into the "breeded fauna in captivity", which ...
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