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Kach and Kahane Chai: two marginal, extremist Israeli groups that have used terrorism to pursue their goals of expanding Jewish rule across the West Bank and expelling the Palestinians (Source: Council on Foreign Relations).

Private military and security companies

Private Security Companies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: An International Humanitarian Law Perspective (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research)

Last updated: 16 November 2009

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Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, "Switzerland calls for an end to Israeli settlement plans in Gilo, East Jerusalem", 18 October 2009: "In Switzerland's view, the Israeli settlement projects and the destruction of houses in the occupied Palestinian territory violate international humanitarian law, which prohibits an occupying power from destroying property or from re-settling civilians in the occupied territory. "