Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Keesby.

Coming up on the program today will have more on that deadly missile attack in central Ukraine.

The Pope embarks on a major tour of Southeast Asia and there's a new bus route for the Jewish communities of North London.

All that to come but first.

How far is the Israeli government itself implicated in enabling and even funding illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The BBC has seen new evidence that groups with close ties to the government

have been financing new illegal outposts so-called herding posts

with the intention of controlling large tracts of land and forcing Palestinians from

their homes. According to the UN, there's also been a sharp increase in settler violence

and intimidation in the West Bank over the past 11 months

since the Hamas attacks of October the 7th, which sparked the conflict in Gaza.

Settlements and outposts in the West Bank are illegal under both international and

Israeli law, but as Amir Nader has been finding out in this BBC I investigation,

many Palestinians feel pushed out of their own homes.

Mohammed is playing an audio message on his phone.

Listen, the voice says, I will tell you this only once.

You have two days to leave the area.

Mohammed's mother Aisha wonders if it's a settler they know well.

He's a settler called moushe, but we call him moussha. He's the settler called Moises, but we call him Moosa. He's the one who kicked us out.

In October 2023, a few days after the Hamas attack on Israel, Aisha and her husband Nabil were forced off their land in the Jordan Valley.

Recently, the couple were able to briefly return home. In the kitchen, all the cupboard doors have been thrown open

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