EU official to Israel: Don’t demolish unauthorized Palestinian village

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Source: Jerusalem Post

The fate of Sussiya is now before the High Court of Justice, a plan that could allow for illegal village's legalization.

The European Union on Monday called on Israel not to demolish the illegal West Bank Palestinian village of Sussiya, whose tents and shacks in the South Hebron Hills are home to some 340 people.

“On behalf of the EU, I call on the government of Israel to reverse its plans to carry out demolitions here in Sussiya,” its representative to the Palestinian territories, John Gatt-Rutter, said on Monday.

As part of a stepped-up campaign by the EU and the Palestinian Authority against such IDF demolitions, Gatt-Rutter visited the village in the morning, along with PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, under the watchful eye of the IDF, which was stationed just outside.

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/EU-official-to-Israel-Dont-demolish-unauthorized-Palestinian-village-405437

[LeftOfWest]

1. How do you feel about this Little Tich?

Any response about this action?

[Little Tich]

2. I'm more than slightly miffed.

What Israel is doing amounts to ethnic cleansing. It's good that the EU has decided to step in and declare a red line.

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3. "Unauthorized" by whom? The Government of Israel perhaps?

Is an unauthorized village like an illegal person? Same idea, we don't want you here?