The European Union denounced on Tuesday May 10 the will of the Israeli authorities to expel "
for military reasons
" a thousand Palestinians settled in a region south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, in order to establish a firing range for the 'army.
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The establishment of a firing zone cannot be considered as an
'
imperative military reason
'
to transfer the population under occupation
," warned the spokesman for Josep Borrell, the head of European diplomacy.
“Stop demolitions and evictions”
“
Settlement expansion, demolitions and evictions are illegal under international law.
The EU condemns such plans and urges Israel to stop demolitions and evictions, in line with its obligations under international humanitarian law and international human rights law
,” he said.
“
Israel’s Supreme Court issued a ruling last week on Massafer Yatta’s deportation case in the southern Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank, raising the risk of the forcible transfer of some 1,200 Palestinians and the demolition of their homes. houses
,” he recalled.
Israel's highest court agreed with the army, ruling that the Massafer Yatta area, where 12 Palestinian villages are located in the Judean Desert at the southern end of the West Bank, had been a firing range since 1980.
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The demolitions and evictions, the forced transfers, including of Bedouins, seriously threaten the two-state solution and will only aggravate an already tense environment
”, insisted the European spokesperson.
