Published: 30 April 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
On Saturday morning, demonstrators in Australia gathered in front of a ship loaded with thousands of sheep and cattle that was departing for Israel’s shores.
Both protests followed the release earlier this month of an exposé by Animals Australia, broadcast on Australian TV’s 60 Minutes, into the appalling conditions in which sheep were shipped to the Middle East on five separate journeys, each lasting more than three weeks.
Disturbing footage from the documentary, subsequently broadcast on Israel’s Hadashot TV news, showed overcrowding on board, with animals packed so tightly that many could not reach food and water.
Saturday night’s demonstration, which organisers said brought around 3,000 protesters onto the streets, was also attended by several Knesset lawmakers.
FULL STORY Thousands protest ‘agonizing’ live shipment of animals to Israel (Times of Israel)
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Photo: Protesters demonstrate in Tel Aviv against live shipments of animals for fattening and slaughter in Israel, April 28 (Adi Avikzer)
