West Bank: settlers, guns and sanctions

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For more than six months, a BBC Eye team has been investigating extremist settlers establishing a new type of illegal settlement known as a “herding outpost”. Some have been sanctioned by the UK and US governments for forcing Palestinians from their homes as part of a “campaign of violence and intimidation”. In this documentary we tell the story of the Palestinian communities living on the frontline of their outposts. We expose how some of these settlers have been supported by two powerful organisations in Israel, one which describes itself as “an arm of the Israeli state”.

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0:00.0	Mohammed plays an audio message on his phone.
0:06.0	Listen, the voice says, I will tell you this only once.
0:12.0	You have two days to leave the area.
0:16.0	Mohammed's mother Aisha wonders if it's a settler they know well.
0:19.2	He's a settler called moushet, but we call him moussa. He's the one who kicked us out.
0:28.0	In October 2023, a few days after the Hamas attack on Israel that killed around 1,200 people,
0:38.0	Aisha and her husband Nabil were forced off their land in the Jordan Valley area of the West Bank.
0:46.5	We want to go back to our home.
0:48.6	Nobody knows of the pain and frustration we are in.
0:57.0	My hands keep shaking, I'm anxious even talking to you now.
1:00.0	They now live with their son, Mohammed. Mose,
1:02.0	it's a job container, it. Then they got him six or seven kids to hurt the sheep. Then they threatened us with weapons.
1:16.0	The police just watch. The Israeli army just watches. Who are we supposed to complain to?
1:24.0	In this BBC I investigation,
1:26.0	we've been exploring how extremist settlers in the occupied West Bank
1:30.0	have been waging a campaign of intimidation and harassment against local Palestinians.
1:35.0	I'm Amir Nada and for the documentary from the BBC World Service,
1:40.0	this is West Bank, settlers, guns and sanctions.
1:45.0	The man Aisha and Nabil accused of driving them out is called Mochez-charvet.
1:50.0	Okay, I got a Libanesha, I'm going to go ahead. tall and athletic mauche often dresses in a
1:55.0	tall and athletic mauche often dresses in shorts and a baseball cap. in this promotional video for the farm he established in 2021 he gazes across the broad valley that spreads out beneath him.
2:15.2	You can see this place is vast, he says, we're here to look after the land that was abandoned until we came,
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