To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the EU and other donors have stopped paying the legal costs of the inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Al Khan al Ahmar seeking to prevent the demolition of a number of buildings; and whether they will call for payments to be continued.
Answered on
13 March 2017
The UK continues to support Bedouin communities and Palestinians in Area C through our assistance to the Norwegian Refugee Council’s legal aid programme. As is their prerogative, the residents of Khan Al Ahmar decided to employ a lawyer outside of this programme. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood) met with the Khan Al Ahmar’s community leader in 2016, and we raise our objections to the demolition orders with the Israeli authorities on a regular basis.