(Hill) Hundreds of lawmakers across various political parties and across the Atlantic are urging the European Union to ban Hezbollah in its entirety.
European politicians and lawmakers from the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Israel are joining the calls for the EU to remove a distinction between Hezbollah’s political arm, which is allowed to operate on the continent, and its military wing, which was designated a terrorist organization following a deadly attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria on July 18, 2012.
Five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver were killed, and 32 Israelis were injured.
“We, lawmakers from both sides of the Atlantic and united across party lines, call on the European Union to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization,” the open letter with signatures from 236 lawmakers reads.
