The Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, acknowledged in a written reply to Hilde Vautmans (Renew Europe, Belgium) on Thursday 30 April that the number of demolitions and confiscations of EU-funded projects in Area C of the West Bank had increased in 2019.
According to a European official, demolitions or confiscation of structures financed by the EU and Member States have increased from 51 in 2018 to 98 in 2019, an increase of 90%. In financial terms, the increase is even...