Plan to guard notorious Israeli prison with crocodiles stalled over animal welfare concerns

A legal battle has erupted in Israel over a government plan to build a moat around a prison and fill it with crocodiles.

The plan, first proposed by the country's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir late last year, had largely flown under the radar in recent months until an animal welfare group launched a challenge.

On Sunday, local time, the Jerusalem District Court announced a temporary injunction preventing the Israel Prison Service (IPS) from deploying Nile crocodiles to the notorious Ketziot Prison.

The facility is in a remote part of the Negev Desert, close to the Egyptian border in Israel's south, and houses many Palestinian prisoners, including some who were involved in Hamas's deadly October 7, 2023 attacks against Israel.

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