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Hardliners violently expel Palestinians to expand Israeli settlements in West Bank

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

While Gaza endures a devastating war, an increasingly brutal battle is being fought over land in another Palestinian territory: the West Bank. Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians there more frequently and ferociously than ever before and forcing them to flee their homes. Special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

While Gaza is enduring its devastating war, an increasingly brutal battle is being fought

0:06.6

over land in another Palestinian territory, the West Bank. There Israeli settlers

0:12.0

are attacking Palestinian communities more frequently and ferociously than ever before.

0:18.0

Because of those attacks, more than a hundred Palestinians have fled their homes in the northern West Bank in just the past 10 days.

0:25.0

Last year, more than 1,500 were forced off their land.

0:29.0

Special correspondent Lela Molana Allen traveled through the occupied West Bank to meet the Israeli

0:34.7

settlers who are determined to expand their outposts throughout that

0:38.7

contested territory.

0:41.3

As war rages on, long before the dust has settled on thousands of destroyed homes in Gaza.

0:49.0

These Israelis are calling to be allowed to build Jewish homes amidst the rubble.

0:55.0

No Israelis have been allowed to live in Gaza since the government pulled out nearly 20 years ago.

1:01.0

There was violent protest at the time. Those who called it a

1:05.6

mistake now feel vindicated by the October 7th Hamas attacks. And as the

1:11.1

world watches the war in Gaza, extremist settlers have taken advantage of the distraction.

1:16.0

Armed mobs have descended on ancient olive groves on multiple occasions, burning them to the ground, accelerating their harassment of

1:25.4

Palestinian villagers and violent land seizures, shooting Palestinians who

1:30.1

stand in their way.

1:37.0

Last week, a Palestinian man was shot dead after a group of armed settlers stormed the village of Jeat,

1:40.0

setting homes aflame.

1:46.3

In late October, three of Yasur aaudi's family members were killed when a group of young settlers stormed

1:50.1

through their village of Kustra on a shooting rampage.

1:53.0

The next day, as they drove to the graveyard to bury them,

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