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PBS News Hour - Segments

How life in the West Bank has become brutal and unpredictable after Oct. 7

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Overnight in the occupied West Bank, a mosque was vandalized and set on fire by Israeli settlers. Attacks against Palestinians there have increased greatly since the Oct. 7 terror attacks. Israel describes the West Bank as one of seven fronts it is fighting on, stoked by Iranian support of militants. Nick Schifrin reports from the Jenin refugee camp, the epicenter of much of the violence. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Overnight in the northern reaches of the occupied West Bank, a mosque was vandalized and set on fire by Israeli settlers,

0:08.0

whose attacks against Palestinians there have increased greatly since the October 7th terror attacks.

0:14.0

Israel describes the West Bank as one of seven fronts its fighting on stoked by Iranian support of Palestinian militants. On a recent trip,

0:22.6

Nick Schifrin traveled to the Janine refugee camp, the epicenter of much of the violence.

0:27.6

He begins his story in a nearby village.

0:30.6

It is a window into life in the occupied West Bank, what was once a sanctuary reduced to rubble.

0:38.3

I've been building this house for 15 years.

0:41.3

It took them 45 minutes to demolish it and leave.

0:43.3

Jonas Hassan and his two-year-old daughter Jaffa stand at the wreckage of the home he spent nearly half his life building.

0:50.3

He just finished it.

0:52.3

Jaffa's trampoline in the living room, family dancing in the kitchen.

0:58.7

But in September, an Israeli bulldozer tore it down. Israel told him he didn't have a construction permit,

1:04.8

which Palestinians and the U.N. say is nearly impossible to obtain.

1:10.0

If I wanted to build a house like this again, it would take me 100 years.

1:13.6

I'll be in my grave before I can finish it.

1:16.6

The family says it's lived on this land for 100 years.

1:20.6

Israel has for decades bulldozed West Bank homes in the name of counterterrorism.

1:25.6

But the UN says this year Israel demolished the highest number of structures since records

1:30.5

began 15 years ago.

1:33.6

And since October the 7th, Israel has blocked Hassan's and some 150,000 West Bank Palestinian's

1:39.2

livelihood by suspending their work permits that gave them access as day workers to Israel just beyond the wall.

1:50.5

Before October 7th, I used to work in Israel.

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