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EU Observer (19 June 2026)

Andrew RETTMAN, Nikolaj NIELSEN, Elena SÁNCHEZ NİCOLÁS and Róisín NORTHCOTE,

Israel has damaged at least €150m of European taxpayer-funded structures in Gaza and the West Bank, but not paid back one euro, amid concern its impunity will cause further destruction.

The European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis (€50.5m) and the Southern Gaza Seawater Desalination Plant in Deir al-Balah, plus its 18km pipeline (€30m), were the two most expensive EU-funded structures hit by Israeli airstrikes since 7 October 2023, when the current war began.

The EU had also invested €15m in building the Gaza Central Desalination Plant in Khan Younis and a Gas for Gaza pipeline in 2021 and 2023, but these were left unfinished due to the war and it was not known if the construction sites had also been bombed.

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