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An Israeli right-wing organization, Regavim, conducts research in Palestinian neighborhoods in order to obtain useful information new store europe to remove the families from that area. For the association "no occupation" and those who have to leave by "foreigners" are the Palestinians Jillian Kestler-D'Amours / IPS
Route 60, Palestine. Sitting in your car air conditioner in a place of Route 60, in the heart of the West Bank, Ovad Arad explains how to do your job: unexpectedly comes to Palestinian villages, take pictures, drink coffee with some families and leave ASAP. "Do not lie to them. When people ask me what I'm doing here, I say I research the area. I try not to get into a deep conversation. I do my work and go, "says Arad to Inter Press Service new store europe (IPS), but adds that never reveals who he works for or why shooting. Arad lives in the Jewish settlement of Mero Horon and division heads to Judea and Samaria (West Bank biblical name) of Regavim, Israeli right-wing organization that promotes legal means the demolition of Palestinian homes and other buildings. Asked by IPS if you feel bad when you destroy the home of a Palestinian family because of his work, Arad says, "no. Actually, no. " However, when asked how he feels when he demolished homes in Israeli settlements, says: "I feel good. In fact, it hurts when I see Jews expelled from their homes. But I've never seen Palestinians expelled from their homes, but to Jews. "
Regavim operates mainly in the Negev desert in southern Israel, and in Area C of the West Bank, which covers about 60 percent of the Palestinian territory and, according to the 1993 Oslo Accords, is under complete military control and administrative Israel. Approximately 150,000 Palestinians and 300,000 Jewish settlers new store europe live in Area C. Israeli settlements are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Jewish outposts are illegal also under Israeli laws themselves. Under international law, Israel, as the occupying power, is responsible for meeting the needs of the population living under its control. However, Regavim new store europe argues that the application of this to the West Bank is debatable. The position of the organization is that "there is no occupation," says Ari Briggs, director of the International Department of the group. Regavim is supported by the legal framework of the Oslo Accords to perform their work in the West Bank, explains, noting that the organization receives new store europe most of the data you need to operate through formal requests for information to the Israeli new store europe Civil Administration, military agency that manages new store europe the civil affairs new store europe in the occupied territories. Using a geographic information system and detailed new store europe aerial photographs, Regavim can make an accurate map of the West Bank. "One hundred new store europe percent legal Jewish construction receive a demolition order, but only one third of the buildings will Arabs," says Briggs, who was born in Australia but has lived in Israel over the past 18 years. He added that the Israeli Civil Administration retroactively legalizes usually the c