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Arab News
10-08-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Far-right Israeli group Regavim calls for Palestinian school near Hebron to be destroyed
LONDON: Regavim, an Israeli settler group, on Sunday called for the demolition of a Palestinian school in the Bedouin Badia community, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Osama Makhamreh, an activist, told the Wafa news agency that members of Regavim posted leaflets on the walls of the Bat Zuwaydin Secondary School in Badia. The leaflets called for the school's destruction and argued that maintaining the school would encourage Palestinians to build and remain in the area. Badia is one of several Palestinian Bedouin communities near Hebron, known collectively as Masafer Yatta, that have endured attacks by Israeli settlers and government policies aimed at pushing them out of the area, designated as a military zone. For more than four years, work has been underway to establish and build Bat Zuwaydin Secondary School, in the Zuwaydin municipal area, Wafa added. Regavim, an extremist organization, was founded in 2006, with far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich being one of its notable founders. It aims to establish 'legal channels' for enforcing Israeli demolition orders against Palestinian structures and operations in the West Bank, particularly Area C, which constitutes 60 percent of the territory. It also operates in Israel, specifically targeting Palestinian citizens living in Bedouin communities in the southern Negev Desert, and conducts detailed aerial photography to document the expansion of Palestinian communities.
Wall Street Journal
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
U.N. Fudges the Data on West Bank Violence
Who's terrorizing whom in the West Bank? President Biden had one answer, backed by United Nations data, and built an unprecedented sanctions regime to address Israeli 'settler violence,' a suddenly ubiquitous term. On Tuesday the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway announced sanctions on two Israeli ministers. But the data doesn't stand up to scrutiny. A new report by Regavim, a right-wing Israeli NGO, takes the trouble of scrutinizing the statistics from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on which the Biden case relied. Poring over the U.N.'s list of 6,285 violent incidents by settlers from January 2016 through April 2023, Regavim noticed something: 'The UN database includes thousands of clearly non-violent incidents in its count of violent events.'
