Far from Gaza, West Bank Farmers Face Harassment from Israeli Soldiers and Settlers
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
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He says Israeli soldiers and settlers have blocked him from his land since the war started. That was back on October 7, when Hamas insurgents attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people.
While the world has focused on Israel's response in Gaza, violence in the West Bank is also spiking.
The International Crisis Group estimates more than 130 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the war began.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and her team traveled to Abu Hejleh's village. They saw first-hand how the war between Israel and Hamas is upending lives for Palestinians in the West Bank, sometimes in extremely frightening ways.
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| 0:16.0 | There are times on this job when you set out to do a story and you think you know where it's going and the day ends up spinning in unexpected directions. This is the story of such a day in the Israeli occupied West Bank. |
| 0:21.0 | The other Palestinian territory. Consider this far from Gaza, the war between Israel |
| 0:27.5 | and Hamas is upending lives for Palestinians in the West Bank, sometimes in extremely frightening ways. |
| 0:35.0 | From NPR, I'm Mary Louise Kelly. |
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| 1:55.0 | It's consider this from NPR. This week my team and I traveled to the West Bank to see a small town called Daristia and to meet a 54 year old man named Ayub Abu Hedge in his family home where he made Arabic |
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