Sitting outside of Ahmed Abdulrahman’s home in the al-Matwa valley, the summer humidity makes the smell of human excrement almost too potent to handle. Israeli settlements and industrial factories loom over the valley on the hilltops. A stream of sewage runs steadily below. The Matwa and al-Atrash valleys – located in the Salfit district of the occupied West Bank between the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Nablus – collect mismanaged wastewater from both Palestinian residents in Salfit and Israeli residents of the nearby illegal Ariel and Barkan settlements.
— source middleeasteye.net | 24 July 2019