{"id":18177,"date":"2025-03-27T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=18177"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:57:12","slug":"wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Animal Smuggling Crackdown Continues in East Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The troubling trend continues. During routine operations in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, Border Police officers came across a monkey chained with a heavy iron link to a green dumpster placed along the roadside.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police Open Investigation<br \/>\n<\/strong>The monkey appeared to be held in harsh and harmful conditions. The officers promptly alerted the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, whose representatives arrived quickly to rescue the animal and provide the necessary medical attention. The case is now under professional examination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18180\" style=\"width: 880px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18180 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/anothermonkey2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/anothermonkey2.jpeg 880w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/anothermonkey2-300x287.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/anothermonkey2-768x736.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The monkey found in East Jerusalem | Photo: Israel Police Spokesperson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police have launched an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident. Authorities say those responsible for the illegal captivity of the monkey will face legal proceedings under Israel\u2019s animal protection laws.<\/p>\n<p>This case is part of a wider phenomenon. Over the past month, Israeli police have intensified a national operation targeting the smuggling of wild animals. So far, they have seized over ten monkeys, several lion cubs, crocodiles, snakes, turtles, and other exotic creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Border Police unit discovered an injured monkey shackled to a municipal dumpster on a public street in East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":18179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,97],"tags":[1699,2012,3346],"class_list":["post-18177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-health","tag-border-police","tag-east-jerusalem","tag-monkey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wild Animal Smuggling Crackdown Continues in East Jerusalem - REGA news<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wild Animal Smuggling Crackdown Continues in East Jerusalem\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Border Police unit discovered an injured monkey shackled to a municipal dumpster on a public street in East Jerusalem.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"REGA news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-27T14:00:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/anothermonkey1.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"673\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"By Shimon Levi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"By Shimon Levi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"By Shimon Levi\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/4d7bc34deb63b02173f4b03d0273ec11\"},\"headline\":\"Wild Animal Smuggling Crackdown Continues in East Jerusalem\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-27T14:00:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem\/\"},\"wordCount\":181,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/anothermonkey1.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Border Police\",\"east jerusalem\",\"Monkey\"],\"articleSection\":[\"ENVIRONMENT\",\"HEALTH\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wild-animal-smuggling-crackdown-continues-in-east-jerusalem\/\",\"name\":\"Wild Animal Smuggling Crackdown Continues in East Jerusalem - 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