Israel’s ‘Biblical Plague’ Takes A Sinister Turn - With A Deadly Catch

Right, so Israel is now sending drones after its rodents as I covered just the other day. The operation in Eshkol has moved into the surrounding farmland, distributing a poison called Rosh-80 an it’s because the poison in question has come to light, that I’ve come back to the story already, because Israel has been full of news of alternative methods to control rodents previously, but has now opted to return to something with a particularly nasty backstory. Back in 2024, Israel’s wildlife authority linked it to the deaths of seven gazelles. Five were pregnant. Negligent application was suspected. But when the response to a rat infestation involves a product with that history, “don’t worry, we’ve brought a drone” isn’t quite the reassurance some might think it is. After my last video about the millions of shekels being committed to this problem, some of you raised a fairly obvious question. What happens to everything else when the poison goes out, because the rats haven’t thoughtfully confined themselves to somewhere convenient. They’re in agricultural land around communities where people are trying to get the infestation out of their homes. Eshkol council says conditions following the winter helped rodent numbers grow, and treating individual communities wasn’t enough while the surrounding fields remained infested and of course all of this has been taking place immediately adjacent to the Gaza Strip, which has been turned into a rats paradise after 3 years of genocide. They don’t obey Israel’s all too fluid borders any more than Israel itself seems to do.