GAZA CITY, June 20, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – A Palestinian official charged Monday, June 20, that Israel has dumped the Palestinian market with carcinogenic food and fruit.

“The market is inundated with such killer food and chemicals that cause cancer and other malicious diseases. These goods pose serious threats to the health of the Palestinian people,” Yusuf Abu Safia, the chairman of the Environmental Authority (EA), told IslamOnline.net.

Abu Safia further added that the EA has seized several shipments packed with biscuits and juices, adding that lab analysis revealed that the Israeli goods contained high percentage of the carcinogen saccarine.

“This chemical (saccarine) is highly dangerous to public health and has been banned since 1982 around the globe as studies held it as the main culprit behind cancer,” he said.

“Frozen meat, summer vegetables and fruit have been injected with chemicals and exposed to radiation which mutated into double of their size.”

In summer, Palestinians basically consume Israeli-cultivated vegetables and fruit like watermelons, apricots and plums.

Abu Safia further warned that Palestinian children play with Israeli games that beam radioactive rays.

He said Egyptian border authorities seized two shipments of carcinogenic and radioactive Israeli games last month.

The Palestinian official further said that Israel has declared a “disguised war” aimed at killing the Palestinians slowly.

Abu Safia highlighted the fact that such stuffs are not marketed for the Israelis, stressing that they were produced especially for the Palestinians at lower price.

He added Israelis are also deliberately flooding Palestinian markets with settler-made, poor-quality and cheap products to undermine Palestinian production.

The official also hit out at some Palestinian tradesmen for buying secondhand Israeli domestic appliances and computers at meager prices, then reselling them on the Palestinian market.

He said his Environmental Authority has seized 2,500 used computer monitors in addition to a shipment of 1954-produced medicine, whose production and expiry dates have been faked, and brought to the Palestinians from Israel.

The official urged all Palestinians, starting from the Palestinian Authority, tradesmen and consumers to join forces to boost the national economy and production by boycotting such suspicious Israeli products to head off also serious health problems.