Eight European countries are asking Israel to pay for the confiscation of aid in the West Bank

Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain and Sweden filed a request for compensation to Israel because Tel Aviv confiscated and carried out demolitions on behalf of a humanitarian aid consortium in the West Bank. This is a request that has no precedent and whose political value surpasses the economic one. The cause of the joint request was the destruction and requisition of prefabricated and solar panels, carried out by Israeli security forces; these materials were to be used for Arabic schools, located in a part of territory inhabited by populations of Bedouin origin. In this area, 60% occupied by Israelis, the Arab population is not connected to Tel Aviv's electricity grid and the use of solar panels can offset, at least in part, electrical isolation. Israel's destruction and confiscation order is believed to be part of the will of the Tel Aviv government to promote new settlements of colonies in the area with the dual purpose of increasing Israel's presence and interrupting the territorial continuity of Arab communities in the areas located right next to Jerusalem and Bethlehem. The non-stationary condition of part of the Arab population who are in this area favors Israeli occupation plans. For the eight European countries, the behavior of the Israeli state appears to be in violation of international law because it forces the Palestinian population to deprive humanitarian aid. The measure of Israel is even more hateful if one thinks that much of the material was intended for schools. Tel Aviv, as in other cases, refuses any compensation for demolitions and confiscations of material from European cooperation, which operates without the permission of the Israeli administration of these territories, and at the same time does not grant building permits to Palestinian. Although these confiscation and demolition measures constitute a marginal case of the Palestinian question, they effectively represent the systematic use of Israel's abuses to pursue the government's expansion strategy. The political value of this claim for compensation is enormous, because it also condemns Tel Aviv's activity against humanitarian organizations, as opposed to what is provided by international law, from which too many times the Israeli government has been held above. The issue also shows how the fate of international aid to the Palestinians is affected by the action of Tel Aviv: by way of example, it is worth mentioning that the value of demolished installations funded by the European Union for Palestinians in 2016 amounted to 557,000 euros. If at this time the issue does not seem central to the international scenario, the demand of the eight European countries is to remember the serious conditions of discomfort and uncertainty in which the life of the Palestinian population is taking place and constitutes a humanitarian emergency now present too time on the international scene. The right-wing government in Tel Aviv chose a solution to the problem to the fullest advantage of the most extremist part of Israel, which coincides with religious and nationalist alienism, always more frequently outside of international law, without, however, receiving recalls substantial. Tel Aviv has repeatedly postponed a concerted solution, and even the hypothesis of the two states, albeit stubbornly overwhelmed, remained on paper, with the sole aim of gaining time to allow for ever greater expansion within the Palestinian territory. Among the side effects, of this tactic, there are also the demolition and confiscation of property, which, in addition to humiliation, constitute the steadfastness of attempts to improve the lives of Palestinians. The condemnation of the eight European countries can be a starting point for sensitizing the rest of the international public to exert pressure on the Israeli country to stop the expansion and reach a definite point in defining the issue by constantly denying a situation of high potential for danger.