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Ed Webb

EUobserver.com / Foreign Affairs / NGOs highlight Israeli destruction of EU-funded proj... - 0 views

  • in the past year Israeli authorities demolished 22 water cisterns and 37 residential and agricultural structures funded by EU member states.
  • demolition orders and "stop-work" orders against a long list of other EU-funded schemes, including: 14 water cisterns; 34 water sanitation facilities; eight solar energy schemes; two schools and a medical centre
  • on 13 February, Israeli bulldozers damaged Polish-funded repair work to an ancient well in the "illegal" Palestinian village of El Rahawia in the West Bank at the same time as flattening the village itself and making 83 people homeless
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  • on 23 April, the Israeli army destroyed two French-built Palestinian wells in the Hebron area
  • Israel smashed up €49-million-worth of EU-funded projects in total in the 2001 to 2011 period
  • Israeli-friendly member states - chiefly Italy and the Netherlands - have quashed suggestions by EU embassies in the region to impose penalties, such as suspending preferential tariffs on Israeli-settler-made products or an EU visa ban on settler radicals
  • "The highest price is paid by vulnerable men, women, and children whose rights are violated as they are deprived of water," Ayman Rabi, from local NGO the Palestinian Hydrology Group, noted.
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