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Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/09/248529.html
Palatial West Bank Homes Cost Palestinians Greatly
(AFP-Al Arabiya) A group of Palestinians who have spent years working overseas have returned to the West Bank to build their ideal luxury home. In Mazraa al-Sharqiya, only around 5,000 of the village's 12,000 residents actually live in the West Bank. The rest are working overseas, most of them in the U.S. Rafae Hamida, president of a local village charity, estimates that 67% of the village currently lives in either the U.S., Peru or Brazil. "And every one of them wants to build a house that's better than the next," he says. The houses are often distinctive, giant homes that far exceed the regular size of Palestinian houses, the facades covered with stone and adorned with huge pillars. In some cases they look more like fairy tale palaces than regular homes.