(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid - The Dutch government has asked the country's largest engineering company, Royal HaskoningDHV, to rethink its participation in a sewage treatment project with the Jerusalem municipality because the project is based east of the 1967 lines. The plant would be built to battle pollution in the Kidron stream, which runs from the Mount of Olives and the village of Silwan in eastern Jerusalem toward Ma'ale Adumim and the Dead Sea. The plant is in Area C, under full Israeli military and civilian control. According to a senior official at the Israel Foreign Ministry, Dutch Foreign Ministry officials told Royal HaskoningDHV that such a project would violate international law.
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