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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10023

20 November 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/middle east
EU “dismayed” by Israel's decision on Gilo settlement

Brussels, 19/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - The EU is “dismayed by the recent decision (by Israel) on the expansion of the settlement of Gilo”, near Jerusalem. This move, say observers on the ground, will cut off the Jerusalem area from the rest of the West Bank, thereby unilaterally breaking all territorial continuity and threatening to compromise the status of East Jerusalem. The EU points out that it “has never recognised the annexation of East Jerusalem” by Israel in 1967 and...

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