Hitler Would Be Proud

The Israeli government is among the worst human rights offenders on the planet. And yet we don't feel the need to effect regime change there.

Eight ambassadors to Israel have written to the Israeli military accusing it of breaking international humanitarian law by confiscating shelters for Bedouins in the occupied West Bank that were paid for by European governments.

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Signed by the ambassadors to Israel of Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Ireland and Norway, the letter describes the confiscated items as being “provided as part of a broader humanitarian intervention for vulnerable Palestinian households” coordinated by the UN.

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The letter is the latest evidence of growing tension between donor governments and Israel over EU aid to threatened Bedouin communities in the part of the occupied Palestinian territories designated as Area C, where Israel has full security and administrative control.

According to a UN report from 2014, about 7,000 Palestinian Bedouins were living in Area C, 60% of of them children. Most of the families have demolition orders pending against their homes and more than 85% lack connection to the electricity and water networks.

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According to one diplomat whose government was involved with the letter, there had been “no official reply”. The source added: “We’ve had no response but through backdoor contacts it has been hinted that the demolitions will continue.”

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“The people living in the two affected communities,” the letter adds, “are among the most vulnerable in the West Bank. These confiscations as well as previous demolitions, compounded by the inability of humanitarian agencies to deliver relief items to the affected households, create a coercive environment that potentially pressures them to leave their current sites against their will."

  Guardian

And that's the point. But, hey, they aren't getting the oven treatment.  They should be grateful.

The latest letter follows a call in January by all of the EU’s 28 member states for Israel to allow the Palestinians to develop Area C of the West Bank, warning then that actions against the Palestinians, such as demolitions and confiscation – including of EU-funded projects – were an obstacle to peace.

Just another bonus for Israel.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.