A child in the unrecognized Bedouin villages, the Negev Desert, Israel

A child in the unrecognized Bedouin villages, the Negev Desert, Israel

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Israel’s soldiers confront EU diplomats and confiscate aid

By John Reed in Jerusalem

 

September 20, 2013 7:34 pm
 

Israeli soldiers manhandled European diplomats and confiscated an aid truck carrying tents to homeless Palestinians in the West Bank on Friday in an incident likely to test Israel’s strained relations with European countries. 

The incident happened on Friday afternoon in the northern Jordan Valley when Acted, a French humanitarian aid organisation funded by the EU’s humanitarian arm, was stopped by Israel Defence Forces soldiers near the hamlet of Kirbet Makhoul, home to about 100 Bedouin Palestinians, which Israel's army bulldozed early last Monday ...READ MORE

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