EXCLUSIVE / Israel has seized three EU-funded humanitarian aid
projects on the edge of a settlement construction zone that Europe views
as as a 'red line', spurring demands for compensation payments to
Brussels at a crisis moment for John Kerry’s Mideast peace bid.
The three humanitarian aid shelters were dismantled on 8 April in
Ras-a-Baba, also known as Jabal-al-Baba, which lies in the E1 corridor
of the West Bank, linking the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem.
All three shelters were prefabricated caravans, built for families
made homeless in severe storms that hit the region in December. They
were funded by the EU’s humanitarian aid wing, DG ECHO, and some were
provided by the French development agency, Action Contre la Faim (ACF).
