Israel seizes solar panels donated to Palestinians by Dutch government
Israeli authorities insist that stop-work orders were issued before soldiers carried out raid on solar farm which allegedly did not have proper building permits Bethan McKernan Beirut
The panels were not built with proper permits and permissions, the authorities said, confiscating equipment belonging to the £307,000 humanitarian project last week.
Critics points out that building permissions for new Palestinian homes and infrastructure are almost impossible to obtain.
The village mayor told Palestinian outlet Ma’an News that the panels were destroyed, although Comet-ME, the aid organisation which installed the panels, said that between 60 and 90 were taken away intact and other equipment at the site destroyed and left behind by Israeli forces.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry has asked for the equipment to be returned to Jubbet al-Dhib and is considering what “next steps can be taken”, according to a report in Israeli daily newspaper Haaretzpublished on Saturday.
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Cogat, the Israeli military agency responsible for coordinating Israeli policy in Palestinian areas, said that several work-stop orders were issued before the day of the raid. Villagers maintain that they did not know the site had been targeted until Israel Defence Force (IDF) soldiers showed up.
Of particular note is that Jubbet al-Dhib is very close to Israeli outpost villages – settlements illegal under both Israeli and international law – which enjoy a full connection to the main power grid.
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Cogat said in a statement that the village had “other electricity sources” other than the “illegal electricity room”. Haaretz said that before the solar panel system was installed, the 150 residents relied on a couple of “old and noisy” diesel generators for three hours of power a day.
More than 300 structures in the occupied West Bank demolished by the Israeli authorities in 2016 were at least in part funded by the EU or international NGOs, an Israeli military official said earlier this year.
Last year also saw the highest number of Israeli demolitions of Palestinian structures since rights groups began records.
More Jewish crime and genocide; I’m so shocked. And Nikki will probably say nothing bad about the Chosen and our greatest ally.
Where’s Omega? Certainly he got an alert.
Perhaps the Dutch should rescue those 150 victims and have them immigrate to the Netherlands. Then everyone would be happy. The mohammedans because they get more free shit, the dutch because they can show everyone how morally superior they are and the Israelis wh got rid of the vermin.
“The Jews and the Arabs are like two goats facing each other on a narrow bridge. One must jump to the river… The strong goat will make the weaker one jump, and I believe the Jewish power will prevail. [This] will include withholding food from Arab cities, preventing education, terminating electrical power and more. They won’t be able to exist, and they will run away from here.”
— Benzion Netanyahu, interview in Maariv, 2009-04-03
Benzion Netanyahu, father of Benjamin Netanyahu, was personal secretary to Zionist revolutionary Ze’ev Jabotinsky. The policy has not changed since Jabotinsky published “The Iron Wall” in 1923.
If the “Palestinians” would quit their constant attacks on Israel there would be immediate peace between them and Israel.
But they aren’t going to do that.
Yeah and if I could shit gold I’d be rich.
Nikki Haley answered!!
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stupid cunt
This really isn’t much different then the previous policy of the United States towards the Native Americans. Not that either was/is right.
We should do the same to the Mohammedans in USA and Europe if we know what is good for us. Seems a little inconsistent that many who advocate for keeping the A-rabs out of Europe and America would deny the Israelis the same option in their own country.
Get dropped on the head as a baby?
I don’t care what the Israelis do, but we shouldn’t be giving them a penny, nor should we orient our military posture toward defending them from Iran. If Iran attacks Israel it’s no sweat off my balls. Also, Assad is the good guy in Syria, relatively-speaking, so Israeli nonstop efforts to topple him should be opposed by the US. Thank God Russia kept Assad in power.