Israel’s Agriculture Ministry declared war on millions of locusts that swarmed over southern parts of the country. Farms in the Negev Desert were sprayed with insecticide by plane Sunday in hope of banishing the locusts, swarms of which arrived over the weekend from North Africa.
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