Israel knowingly ordered thousands of naval commandos to dive and train in poisonous waters for decades despite health warnings, a government panel charged. The panel, investigating cancer rates among former navy divers, said the military knew of potentially dangerous chemicals in the polluted Kishon River as early as the 1950s.
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