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Israel to European Governments: Stop Funding Illegal Palestinian Building
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - The Israel Foreign Ministry has warned European governments against flouting Israeli law by funding illegal Palestinian building in Area C of the West Bank and has already razed such structures. Aviv Shir-On, Deputy Director General for European Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, told a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee subcommittee on Tuesday that both individual European governments and the EU were funding illegal Palestinian projects. "We won't accept illegal building," he said.