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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10614
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) palestine

Sixty two EU-funded buildings demolished by Israel (NGO)

Brussels, 14/05/2012 (Agence Europe) - Last year, Israel demolished dozens of Palestinian homes, water tanks and agricultural buildings constructed with European aid, and a further 110 further structures are currently under threat of demolition, claims the Displacement Working Group (DWG) in a report published on Monday 14 May. DWG says that 62 structures funded by the European Commission and a number of member states (France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland and Ireland) were razed - 10% of the structures destroyed by Israel in the Israeli occupied West Bank. “European states can make sure that the money provided by their citizens has indeed been of some useful purpose by calling on the Israeli government immediately to cease the demolition of aid projects and civilian buildings”, Nicolas Vercken of Oxfam France told AFP. The Israeli army argued that the structures had been built without permits and, so, had to be destroyed. In April, France criticised the demolition of two water tanks it had funded in the southern West Bank. (CG/transl.rt)

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