⚡️Gaza Municipality

- The Sheikh Radwan pond is experiencing a dangerous rise in sewage levels, reaching 3 meters, which threatens a health and environmental catastrophe.

- This is due to the pumping stations ceasing operation since May 11th because of a shortage of engine oil needed to run the generators and pumps.

- We appeal to international and humanitarian organizations to intervene urgently and provide lubricants to ensure the pumps can be restarted and prevent the disaster from worsening.

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The European Investment Bank (EIB), the lending arm of the European Union, responded on 13 April 2026 to a complaint submitted by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) in 2025. The complaint concerned more than €1 billion in European investments in three Israeli entities involved in illegal activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

In its final report, the EIB acknowledged several flaws in the allocation process. For example, it admitted that the list of ineligible postal codes was based on an outdated list from 2022. The EIB’s Complaints Mechanism identified further serious shortcomings in the checks performed by the Bank to ensure that European funds were not disbursed to final beneficiaries in breach of its own guidelines. The EIB also confirmed that, as a result of HRF’s complaint, several changes were made to the internal allocation of funds to final beneficiaries.

HRF is now conducting a deeper and more comprehensive examination of all matters arising from the EIB’s final report, its disclosed due diligence failures, and the legal risks created by its continued financing of entities involved in illegal settlement-related activity. HRF will continue to pursue all available legal, institutional and public accountability mechanisms to ensure that the EIB, its Member States, shareholders and responsible officials are held accountable for any role they may have played in enabling or facilitating violations of international law.

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