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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel 'Demolishes' EU-Funded W. Bank Housing Shelters
2014-04-12
[AnNahar] Israel has demolished several European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
-funded humanitarian housing shelters in a highly sensitive strip of West Bank land near Jerusalem, an EU official said Friday.
In other words, the EU was out of line when they tried to create facts on the ground.
"On April 9, three of some 18 residential structures were demolished... in Jabal al-Baba," an area outside the sprawling settlement of Maale Adumim, a front man for the EU's delegation to the Paleostinian territories told Agence La Belle France Presse.

The tin huts, used to house Paleostinians made homeless by severe winter weather at the beginning of the year, were "partially funded by EU member states," the official said.

Israel issued demolition orders on all 18 structures in February, the official said, and EU delegates "raised this with the Israeli authorities" both at that time of and after the demolitions.

The EU official said simply that there were ongoing discussions with Israeli authorities over the demolitions, but a report by EurActiv, a Brussels-based news service, said diplomats were demanding financial compensation.

"We should ask for compensation from Israel whenever EU-funded humanitarian aid projects are destroyed," EurActiv quoted an anonymous diplomat as saying.

Israel's military administration of the occupied Paleostinian territories could not immediately comment on the demolitions.

The structures were located in E1, a highly contentious area in the West Bank east of Jerusalem.

Israel has been planning construction in E1 since the early 1990s but nothing has ever been built there due to heavy international pressure. Plans for building 1,200 units unveiled in December 2012 were quickly put on the back burner after the announcement triggered a major diplomatic backlash.

The Paleostinians say construction in E1 would effectively cut the West Bank in two and prevent the creation of a contiguous Paleostinian state.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  the EU wanted compensation? Did they ask permission in the first place?
Posted by: gorb   2014-04-12 17:54  

#2  Find any tunnls?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2014-04-12 14:09  

#1  Gaza and West Bank - already not a contiguous state with that pesky Israel in the way
Posted by: Frank G   2014-04-12 12:10  

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