Road being built between Gush Etzion and Dead Sea on land that is all part of Israeli-controlled Area C.
The Regavim movement has spotted an illegal road being built by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the middle of the Judean Desert with money transferred from the European Union.
Regavim has filed a court case against the illegal construction with Israel’s High Court of Justice.
The PA completed several weeks ago preparations for the construction of a road which extends beyond its territory of control and into Gush Etzion, heading towards the Dead Sea.
Regavim had notified Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) of the illegal building more than six months ago. However, Israeli authorities chose not to take action at that time. Since then heavy machinery has prepared the road for paving.
While previous promises from then ministers Avigdor Liberman and Yisrael Katz regarding Israel’s desire to pave a highway connecting Gush Etzion to the Dead Sea have remained as good intentions only, the PA has taken up the work and is building the road instead.
The new road illegally cuts through the Judean Desert, and passes through areas that are under full Israeli control. It has received no permits from the Israeli government.
Preparation has been completed on eight and a half kilometers of the road, which is expected to be twenty kilometers long once it is finished.
Oved Arad, the head of the land division of Regavim said “this road is a snake in the grass. We are talking about a strategic impediment of the highest order. According to the Oslo accords this is the only spot that Israel can construct this important road that can connect from Gush Etzion to the Dead Sea and from there to the Jordan Valley and the Arava.”
“If the Palestinians build the road with EU funding, it will allow them to gain control of large amounts of Israeli land in the Judean Desert, and annex it to their control.”
“Israel cannot give up on the land, and certainly not to allow foreign countries to come in and take it over.”
Sources in Regavim added that “according to documents signed by the EU, they have instructed that the money being used to build the road, is intended for the Palestinian authority to ‘gnaw away at’ Area C and appropriate its land.”
“This is highly illegal and completely unacceptable. Israel must tell the EU that enough is enough.”
With drones technology every inch square of IL is under surveillance. Why is this road suddenly discovered and why is it allowed to continue to exist? Why does IL allows EU to meddle in IL affairs? Is IL telling the EU and or US how to deal with their problems?
What’s wrong with Benett????? Liel lost hope????????
In my view Alon Liel is a despicable psychopath who revels in his goal to bring suffering to his fellow Israelis… he is a foreign mole who colludes with those set on Israels destruction and suffering… this is not a man to give sympathy for lacking hope…. this is a creature who in my opinion has been responsible for the dead, stabbed and burned Jews resulting from the lefts policies to help the enemies give Israel “tough love”. These radical Israeli blood libelers are as responsible as the medieval church and Goebbels for spreading lies which end in pogrom and genocide. Capital punishment is the only responsible penalty for his crimes.
has BB lost his marbles?
Gosh, BB talks like he is not the one in charge, like he is complaining about the euros illegal behavior in the nation he is elected to be PM. HE IS THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ILLEGAL BUILDING and yet he pretends as if someone else is responsible to arrest them and tear the structures down. It is not possible that he did not facilitate them in their illegal construction in all these years. BB can prove me wrong, by arresting wrongdoer euros, by banning the euro orgs and diplomats involved in this illegal activity, by tearing them down…..what a joker……… apparently he takes Israelis for fools and when you see this happening over his 2 plus terms perhaps he is right.
Re setting the euro relations means demanding the cessation of double standards, demanding the end to libels of illegality or illegitimacy, demanding respect for Israels laws from their criminal diplomats…. BB must act like the sovereign PM of the state and STOP allowing the euros free reign to spread lies and illegally build… since when did the euroscum own Israel? Get some cojones BB, even the pals have more self respect than Israel….. they may lose but they still demand.
Israel should find a way to effectively retaliate.
This is the only thing that works.
Just moaning and whining is not going to help.
If Norwegians are supporting annexing Jewish land, Jews should support annexing part of Oslo for the Muhammadans.
Likewise with all other European cities.
East anext East London to Pakistan, Marcelles to Algeria, Stockholm to “Palestine”.
This is a general idea. The specifics need to be studies.
Europeans must see that their supporting the palestoids against Israel leads to Israeli support of musloids against them.