“Israel” Blocks EU Envoys Visit to School in Palestinian Village

Local Editor

Again it’s the “Israeli” brutality that governs the scene.

European diplomats tried to pay a solidarity visit Thursday to a West Bank village under threat of demolition by the apartheid “Israeli” entity. However, “Israeli” police barred them from reaching the school.

Diplomats from Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the European Union sought to visit the school in the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar which is funded by several European countries, but they were turned back at the village entrance.

"We were briefed by local leaders but refused access by security forces to the school," the Irish representative office to the West Bank wrote on its official Twitter feed.

The Consul General of France, Pierre Cochard,"We wanted to show our solidarity with this village which is threatened with destruction, for humanitarian reasons and because it is a major issue of international law.”

He said that demolishing the village of 173 residents, east of Occupied Al-Quds is  a violation of the Geneva convention laying out the obligations of an occupier toward those under its control.

It would also significantly complicate the search for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he added.

On Tuesday, activists said, “Israel” issued orders authorizing the seizure of access roads to the village.
Activists expect the demolition to happen within the next few days.

"What the “Israeli” authorities are doing is a population transfer contrary to the Rome and Geneva conventions," Palestinian lawyer Munji Abdallah, 50, said.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team