27/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - A delegation of women from the European Parliament was in Israel on 27 October to meet members of the Knesset and Israeli and Palestinian associations militating for peace. The delegation was made of Carlotti, Hermanges Karamanou, Napoletano, Sandbaek, de Sarnez, Roure et Van der Laan. Furthermore, the members of the new Intergroup "Family and Protection of Childhood" have tabled a written declaration on the protection of children in the Middle East, in which they call, in particular, on the EU Member States to provide assistance to orphans and children injured in the region and to strive for the "fighters to urgently withdraw children exposed at the front" in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.