Israeli forces, however, have already badly damaged the Palestinian civilian infrastructure, with supplies of water, food and medicine disrupted, independent television shut down and residents trapped in their homes.

Mr. Okal said: "With the destruction of the Palestinian economic infrastructure - agriculture, trade, jobs - these social connections were broken, too, and self-interest shifted.

Whether invading Lebanon or destroying Palestinian infrastructure and homes, the goal has always been to use violence to dictate terms, believing that Israel can unilaterally decide matters.

"Don't forget that the Palestinian infrastructure was completely destroyed during the Israeli occupation and we must start again from scratch," he said.

In no way does it contribute to ending the terror, but is, rather, directed against the Palestinian civilian population and is destroying the Palestinian infrastructure.

We are also willing to work on the reconstruction of the Palestinian infrastructure, but we do not understand why it has been destroyed.

Israel claims that its invasion of Jenin and other areas was an attempt to destroy the Palestinian terrorist infrastructure.

How should we view this proposal, when the Israeli army has destroyed practically all Palestinian infrastructures, many of which were built with EU funding?

The most obvious result of this is that Palestinian infrastructure, funded by the European taxpayer, is being regularly destroyed by the Israeli army using American weapons.

Ignoring American pleas to withdraw from the West Bank, Israeli raids that were directed at the "Palestinian terrorist infrastructure" grew in intensity.