The Palestinian mayor of Hebron has known as for residents to kill stray canine in alternate for money.
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The Palestinian mayor of Hebron has known as for residents within the West Financial institution metropolis to kill stray canine in alternate for a money reward.
Mayor Tayseer Abu Sneineh proposed the bounty of 20 shekels, or $5.50 USD, throughout a radio broadcast earlier this week, as a potential resolution to the town’s overpopulation of strays which he mentioned had been “haunting the lives of Hebron residents,” the Jerusalem Put up reported.
Not less than some metropolis dwellers took the order to coronary heart, and social media was quickly flooded with photos of stray canine being killed or tortured.
Abu Sneineh was sentenced to life in jail together with three others for his involvement in a terrorist assault in Hebron in 1980 which left six college students lifeless, together with two Americans. He and his conspirators had been later launched as a part of prisoner exchanges.
Abu Sneineh has served as the town mayor since 2017.
After listening to the announcement, social media was flooded with stray canine being killed or tortured.
The doggie demise notices instantly drew protests from native animal rights activists, together with the Animal and Surroundings Affiliation in Bethlehem.
The doggie demise notices instantly drew protests from native animal rights activists. The Animal and Surroundings Affiliation in Bethlehem — the one animal shelter within the West Financial institution — denounced the transfer.
“This bloody marketing campaign resulted in killing many canine, [by] taking pictures, hanging, abusing, operating over them by automobiles,” they wrote in an announcement posted to Fb. “What occurred at present is past humanity and ethics. No faith would settle for such barbaric actions towards harmless animals.”
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