00:01Several hundred Nile crocodiles kept for decades on a farm in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank have been killed.
00:09They were put down on Sunday by officials from the civil administration, the army's governing body in the Palestinian Territory and the Nature and Parks Authority.
00:18It claims this was necessary, citing threats to local residents and the inhumane conditions the animals were kept in.
00:24But Israeli newspaper Haaretz is quoting the owner of the farm as saying the action was illegal and done without consulting him.
00:31Initially opened as a tourist attraction, the crocodile farm was closed to visitors during the second Palestinian Intifada, which ended in 2005.
00:40In 2012, Israel amended its laws to classify the Nile crocodile as a protected species under international treaties.
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