Increase in Israeli settler violence

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Developments in the Middle East have come thick and fast this week. On Tuesday the IPC - a UN-backed monitor group - warned that the "worst-case scenario of famine" is unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Britain, meanwhile, warned that unless Israel met a number of conditions before the UN General Assembly convenes next month, it would join France in recognising a State of Palestine.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupied West Bank has received little international attention since the war in Gaza began. Attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians living there are on the rise - up by 13 percent over the past year, says the UN. We examine attacks in one village and a town.

Also in the programme: Why is Greece detaining all migrants arriving from North Africa? And the English city of Birmingham says goodbye to Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne.

(Photo: Locals inspect a burnt car in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 28 July 2025. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli settlers attacked the village of Taybeh and set two vehicles on fire and spray-painted racist slurs on walls. Credit: Alaa Badarneeh/EPA/Shutterstock)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
0:06.9	We're coming to live from London. I'm Sean Lay.
0:10.9	Developments in the Middle East become thick and fast this week.
0:13.8	On Tuesday, the IPC, a UN-backed monitor group, warned that the worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in the Gaza strip.
0:21.5	Mounting pressure on Israel over the conditions in which civilians are living in Gaza
0:25.0	culminated in US President Donald Trump declaring there was real starvation
0:29.3	and that the Israelis must allow in every ounce of food.
0:33.1	Britain, meanwhile, warned that unless Israel met a number of conditions before the UN General Assembly convened next month,
0:38.9	it would join France in recognising a state of Palestine. In fact, over the last couple of days,
0:44.0	members of the United Nations have been discussing exactly that issue. We'll be talking about that
0:49.3	a little later in the programme. First, though, to the West Bank, which has received comparatively little international
0:55.7	attention since the war in Gaza began. It, too, is subject to an Israeli occupation.
1:01.5	Attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians living there are on the rise, up by 13% over the past
1:07.6	year, that's according to the UN. Jewish settlements are illegal under international
1:11.8	law and built on land which Palestinians want for a future state. John Donelson reports.
1:20.2	In the dead of night, there's panic as flames engulf the Palestinian village of Berker.
1:32.6	Caught on CCTV, you can see masked Jewish settlers igniting the fires. It's getting worse, yes, absolutely it's getting worse.
1:37.8	Sayal Khanan is the mayor of Berka. People are in their home sitting in their houses. Why you attack them? Cars sitting in the street. Why you burn it? Why you come and do all these nonsense? This is what you try to prove. This is not going to bring peace for you.
1:56.2	Here in the Palestinian village of Berka, you can see that around 40 cars have been completely burnt out.
2:02.7	These attacks are happening now really on a daily basis.
2:06.6	Property, cars being destroyed.
2:08.7	Olive groves set on fire.
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