Why the West Bank is about to erupt
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As Israel focuses on fighting Hamas in Gaza, tensions are rising in the other Palestinian territory, the occupied West Bank. Since October 7, violence between Palestinians and Israeli settlers has led to the death of over 180 people, mostly Palestinians. With Israel now fighting on two fronts - Gaza and Lebanon - could it cope with a third?
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| 0:00.0 | While the world has been watching Gaza and the ongoing horrors unfolding there, |
| 0:09.0 | what's happening in the other Palestinian territory, the West Bank, has barely been noticed. |
| 0:15.0 | But in normal times, it would have made global headlines. |
| 0:20.0 | The tensions in the West Bank continue to rise to date a large number of Palestinians have been killed since Hamas terrorized Israel on October 7th. |
| 0:29.0 | Since 7 October, nearly 1,000 Palestinians from at least 15 herding communities have been forced from their homes. |
| 0:36.0 | In fact, tensions in the West Bank have been ratcheting up for months. |
| 0:42.0 | This was back in July. |
| 0:44.0 | And now to breaking news overnight from the Middle East. |
| 0:46.7 | Palestinian militants fought with the Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Janine, |
| 0:51.2 | after Israel's biggest military assault in the area in decades. |
| 0:55.0 | In the weeks since Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack on Israel on October the 7th, |
| 1:02.0 | violence in the West Bank has risen by almost four times, |
| 1:07.0 | leading to over 180 deaths, almost all of them Palestinian. |
| 1:13.0 | Settler attacks have been on the increase for a decade now. |
| 1:18.0 | 800 in the last year alone, some three a day. |
| 1:22.0 | The appeal as a matter of urgency for Israeli authorities to take immediate measures, |
| 1:27.0 | to take steps to ensure the protection of Palestinians in the West Bank, |
| 1:32.0 | who are being on a daily basis subjected to |
| 1:36.2 | violence from Israeli forces and settlers, ill treatment, arrests, evictions, |
| 1:41.8 | intimidation and humiliation. |
| 1:44.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:53.9 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
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