Another Take: Inside the West Bank’s surging settler violence
The Take
Al Jazeera
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on Nov 3, 2023. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
‘Wait for the Great Nakba’ – a warning of forced mass displacement that vigilante settlers have been spreading, as Israeli violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank reaches levels not seen in decades. The Take speaks to Palestinian activist Issa Amro, who was kidnapped, tortured, and assaulted by armed settlers and soldiers in the city of Hebron.
In this episode:
- Issa Amro (@Issaamro), Activist and Human Rights Defender
- Nida Ibrahim (nida_journo), Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Sarí el-Khalili. The original production team was Sarí el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, Fahrinisa Campana, Miranda Lin, and our guest host Natasha Del Toro.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Andrew Greiner is lead of audience engagement. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, I'm Seryl Khalili, a senior producer at the take, and you're listening to another take, |
| 0:16.0 | where we bring you episodes from the past. Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank has been on the |
| 0:22.8 | rise. Around dawn on Thursday, settlers set fire to a mosque in Deristia in the north of the |
| 0:29.9 | West Bank, burning Qur'ans and spray painting anti-Palestinian slogans. It drew widespread |
| 0:36.9 | international condemnation. It's part of a broader |
| 0:40.3 | pattern tied to the olive harvest, when settlers attack farmers, chopped down olive trees and burn |
| 0:47.0 | groves across the West Bank. The UN said last week that there have been at least 167 |
| 0:54.0 | settler-related incidents since October, |
| 0:57.1 | along with frequent assaults by settlers and the Israeli military across the West Bank. |
| 1:03.0 | Two years ago, we spoke with Palestinian activist Issa Amr, who was kidnapped and beaten by |
| 1:09.5 | settlers and soldiers in Hebron. |
| 1:12.1 | What he described then still reflects what many are facing now. |
| 1:17.3 | This episode first aired on November 3, 2023. |
| 1:21.7 | All dates and references are from that time. |
| 1:38.5 | Thank you. are from that time. Just a heads up, this episode includes descriptions of torture. |
| 1:43.1 | Music This episode includes descriptions of torture. |
| 2:02.5 | Palestinian civilians are being dragged and tortured by Israeli men in military uniform, stripped naked and bound with their hands and feet tied. |
| 2:12.8 | You're hearing the cries of those men. It's from a video first shared on October 31st by a Hebrew language account on X and Telegram. Euromed Human Rights Monitor, an NGO based in Geneva, says the video is from Yata, near Hebron, |
| 2:23.3 | in the south of the occupied West Bank. |
| 2:26.3 | The men appear to have been left outdoors for hours. |
| 2:30.3 | It's not new for Palestinians to be humiliated by the Israeli soldiers or the Israeli settlers, |
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