By IRNA,
London : Israel Defence Forces (IDF) completely destroyed the Palestinian civilian government building in Nablus in defiance of its own pledge not to attack the location of any UK- funded projects, the British government has revealed.
“The UK embassy’s defence section in Tel Aviv gained an undertaking from the IDF’s chief of operations that none of the locations in which the UK had invested would be subject to IDF attacks,” said government spokeswoman Baroness Crawley.
In a written parliamentary reply published Wednesday, Crawley said that Britain had raised the specific case of the 2006 destruction of the Mu’qata at Nablus, the location of the project, twice with Israel but to no avail.
“The destruction of the Mu’qata was the subject of a letter of complaint to the head of the IDF’s Strategic Planning and
International Co-operation Division. No satisfactory response has been received,” she told the House of Lords.
The Mu’qata, used for the functions of the Palestinian government storing hundreds of thousands of file cases, was originally built by the British in the 1920s.
It has previously been revealed that Israel has also failed to keep a pledge not to used British armaments against the Palestinians in the occupied territories.