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Israeli army destroys US-funded public park in West Bank
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Last Edited | Penguin Feb 22, 2006 09:11pm |
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News Date | Thursday, February 23, 2006 03:10:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - The Israeli army, using a bulldozer, destroyed a US-funded public park, including a children's playground and swimming pool, in a West Bank village, witnesses and officials said.
The bulldozer, protected by a force of Israeli soldiers, demolished the park in Azzun, close to the northern town of Qalqilya, on the grounds that it had been built without permission of the Israeli authorities in the occupied territory.
Construction work on the park had begun in November last year and was almost completed, the mayor of Azzun, Ihssan Abdellatif, told AFP.
He said that the project, which cost around 120,000 dollars, had been financed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). |
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