Ben Gvir's crocodiles are the latest weapon in Israel's animal warfare on Palestinians

Ben Gvir's crocodiles are the latest weapon in Israel's animal warfare on Palestinians Submitted by Joseph Massad on Thu, 07/30/2026 - 17:34 From Herzl's colonial writings to attack dogs, wild boars and crocodile-moat prisons, animals have long been enlisted in the Zionist project to terrorise Palestinians Dozens of crocodiles lie stranded at an abandoned farm near the illegal Israeli settlement of Petzael in the occupied Jordan Valley on 18 January 2021 (Menahem Kahana/AFP) Off Earlier this month, Israel 's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announced that Israel would use Nile crocodiles as prison guards for Palestinian political prisoners. The programme will begin at Ketziot Prison, Israel's largest, in the Naqab (Negev) desert. The prison served as a concentration camp where thousands of Palestinians were incarcerated between 1988 and 1995 during the First Intifada.