Ahlul Bayt News Agency ; A professional tour of Israeli local authority heads to Holland has been canceled, after the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs learned that the list of participants includes mayors of West Bank settlements.
The visit, which was slated to take place next month and first reported by Army Radio, was coordinated by the municipal division of the JDC-Israel organization in cooperation with the unions of local authorities in both countries.
The participants included head of 30 small local councils, with up to 20,000 residents, including Kfar Shmaryahu, Savyon, Kfar Vradim, as well as Beit Aryeh, Har Adar, Kiryat Arba, Oranit, Beit El, Elkana, Efrat and a number of Arab communities.
The decision made after European Union calls for extended settlement freeze.
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