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What's up, guys? It's Andrew Callahan here. Welcome to the third installment of our Palestine series.
Andrew Callaghan explores the ongoing conflict in occupied Palestine, focusing on settler violence, military displacement, and the struggle of Palestinian communities.
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Key Takeaways
- Settler violence against Palestinians is extensive, state-supported, and escalated after October 7th.
- The Israeli military uses legal loopholes to forcibly displace Palestinians under the guise of military training zones.
- Operation Iron Wall exemplifies large-scale military displacement and destruction of Palestinian communities.
- There is systemic impunity for settlers committing violence, making legal recourse nearly impossible for Palestinians.
- The conflict involves both urban segregation and rural isolation, with different but equally severe forms of apartheid.
What the video covers
- The video is the third installment in Andrew Callaghan's Palestine series, focusing on the rural frontier of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- It contrasts urban apartheid in Hebron with rural displacement and violence in Palestinian villages like Masteryata in the southern Hebron Hills.
- The Israeli military designates areas as training zones, legally displacing Palestinians without mass shootings.
- Settler violence is widespread and often state-supported, with settlers receiving military-grade weapons and training.
- Since October 7th, over 870 Palestinians, including 177 children, have been killed by settlers amid more than 1,800 violent incidents.
- Operation Iron Wall in early 2025 led to the near-total displacement and destruction of the Jenin refugee camp by the Israeli army.
- The army and settlers share the goal of land acquisition through destruction and displacement of Palestinians.
- The video challenges Israeli government narratives downplaying settler violence and displacement.
- It highlights the difficulty of prosecuting settlers for violence against Palestinians due to legal and systemic impunity.
- The video includes personal testimonies and historical context about the ongoing conflict and resistance.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Overview of Palestine Series
- 01:54Settler Violence and Military Support in the West Bank
- 05:10Arming Settlers and Escalation of Violence
- 08:00Operation Iron Wall and Displacement in Jenin
- 10:02Sponsored Message and Brief Interruption
- 11:49Personal Stories and Historical Context
- 18:53Legal Challenges and Resistance
- 32:09Closing Remarks and Broader Implications
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The military's offensive extends across the occupied West Bank. Many warn a breaking point is coming.
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And it says, "I know that pictures may cost me my life, but that will never stop me from taking a shot." After getting a look at the IDA refugee camp in Bethlehem and checking out the system of urbanized apartheid in the
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Palestinian city of Hebron, our driver Musa thought it was time that we checked out the rural frontier of the conflict between Palestinians and illegal Zionist settlers. As he explained, it was quite different. While Hebron was an example of erasure and segregation in the urban
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core with Israelis living directly on top of Palestinians, literally on top, the villages on the outskirts are suffering frequent, often unnoticed attacks. Here, the Israeli army doesn't need a mass shooting to justify Palestinian displacement. They just declare an
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entire region as a military training zone, like for dropping bombs and testing out artillery, giving themselves a legal zoning loophole to attack and displace the
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Palestinians living in the area. To give us an example, Musa took us up to
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Masteryata, a collection of Palestinian villages in the southern Hebron Hills. It's a place that gained international attention through the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which chronicled the struggles of residents under the constant threat of displacement. Compared to Hebron,
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villagers in these hills describe a very different kind of apartheid, one shaped by isolation, uncertainty, and frequent confrontation.
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As you exit Hebron, the contrast becomes visible quite quickly. Well-kept areas, Palestinian enclaves, and the occasional subdivision-style Zionist settlement gradually both fade away. And of course, military checkpoints are constant, but only for Palestinians.
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Illegal Zionist occupants have been given free travel permissions and also free reign by the IDF to harass and harm Palestinians at will with an actual settler self-defense training camp established nearby where hilltop youth and young settlers planning to
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ransack the area are given a kind of terrorist training by army officers and mercenaries. That's right. Settler gangs like the ones we discussed in the previous two episodes are not bands of lost youth as Netanyahu once called them, but rather
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intentional communities directly tied into the Israeli army who were instructed to routinely capture, burn, torture, and kill nearby villagers. And many of these settlers first lived and trained together in settlements like Havat Ma.
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Do you know how many people they've killed and how many people they've displaced, let's say, in the past couple years?
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Do you know numerically how many people have been killed by settlers in Palestine since October 7th?
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Uh, a thousand in the West Bank. Mhm. Thousand, of course, being a round number. The Israeli attitude is that there are no innocents. This was actually said by a government official. There are no innocents among the Palestinians.
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Since October 7th alone, the past two and a half years, there have been over 1,800 incidents of settler violence and over 870 Palestinians killed by settlers, including 177 children, mostly in the name of acquiring more land, which because of the help of the army and
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legal impunity provided by Israeli courts, they've done quite successfully.
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As we mentioned back in episode 1, Israeli official Ben Gabir, himself an extremist settler, greenlit the mass distribution of military-grade gun licenses to settlers in the West Bank
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after Hamas's attack on October 7th. Well, what happened was post-October 7th, Ben Gabir authorized the release of larger numbers of high-caliber firearms.
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So virtually all the adults in the West Bank would have qualified for a kind of machine gun. So they were just awash with these guns and, you know, thinly supervised at best.
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He claimed the measure was a self-defense precaution to keep settlers safe from any Hamas-style terror attacks in the West Bank.
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Of course, no such attack would ever occur. In fact, the opposite happened. The settlers then used these weapons to escalate violence against Palestinians, raising the civilian death toll to a place it had never been before.
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So, going back to what Netanyahu said about roving bands of settler youth being nothing but unincorporated gangs of lost boys, portraying the settlers or colonizers as being the driving force of displacement themselves is a common trope.
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I think it's much bloated. You know, when they're talking about it, they're talking about a handful of kids. We actually located it's about 70 kids.
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They're not from the West Bank. They actually come from teenagers who come from broken homes.
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But oftentimes, it's the Israeli army itself that does the displacement without the settlers. For example, in early 2025, Israel launched Operation Iron Wall, one of its largest operations in decades, focusing specifically on displacing residents in a place called
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the Jenin Camp, a refugee camp about two hours north of Hebron in the northern West Bank. Once home to around 27,000 Palestinians, the Jenin refugee camp was almost entirely forcibly displaced by the army, who after they left destroyed as many homes, roads, and
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other pieces of critical infrastructure as they could, rendering the camp uninhabitable. Today, it is almost entirely empty, and Israeli snipers guard the hills above the camp, often threatening to shoot and kill anybody who dares to return to their home.
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You might ask, what was the goal in the displacement of Jenin camp? Well, it's the same goal the settlers have: more land. The only difference is the army wears all green and puts out a press release after
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they displace and destroy a community in Palestine. In the case of Jenin, the army claimed the entire displacement was a part of an infrastructure improvement project. Of course, that's hogwash, but the goals of the army and settlers are often the same: destroy and displace.
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Jenin's got one of the largest refugee camps in the region. And within the refugee camp, it's noted for its radicalism. The refugee camp in Jenin was invaded by the Israelis in 2006 after the summer war began and
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the Israelis pretty much devastated the refugee camp and whole parts of Jenin as well. Jenin, ever since, in the refugee camp in Jenin, it's been home to various factions that have tried to confront Israel directly and, as I said, those factions included Hamas and Islamic Jihad and various factions that are associated with the PLO, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and factions like that. So this is what was going on. The Israelis
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bombed it and then shortly thereafter the Palestinian Authority invaded the refugee camp in an attempt to wipe out these factions. So they were not able to do that. They reached a ceasefire.
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They withdrew and then shortly thereafter the IDF came in and just demolished the refugee camp. Ten thousand refugees' homes destroyed, whole entire city blocks were destroyed within the refugee camp of Jenin. So this is where we are now.
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QR code right now. All right, back to Palestine. What can you tell me about these names here?
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So, there are volunteers different countries. They were here to give solidarity and supporting the Palestinians. Rachel, she was killed in in Gaza by the colonizer while she tried to stop the bulldozer destroying one of the [music] lands or one of the
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Palestinian in Gaza there. always of course they treat the foreigners a bit different than the Palestinians [music] but sometime they don't care and if they see you in the same place and trying to defend and participating with the
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protest and things with a Palestinian [music] they don't mind to kill uh foreigner yeah there was a girl from my hometown who got killed after October 7th by IDF uh where [music] where about in I think it was in Gaza she was doing
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humanitarian work along the humanitarian border there with helping with supplies. I think she was somewhere between a journalist and an [music] activist, but she got killed.
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When we talked about risks and my sister going to the West Bank, [music] um, you know, death was definitely at the top of my list and concerns and to receive a call and to be woken up by my
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husband in the morning saying that she [music] was dead and that she was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier.
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It was a [music] I mean it was the worst news, the worst case scenario come to life.
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Nothing that I have heard from the State Department gives me any assurance at all that the killing of a United States citizen by the IDF is being treated with the urgency that it deserves.
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And of course, their excuse was, "Oh, we we thought that she was with the [music] resistance, with the militants. We didn't we couldn't tell. We couldn't see." That's always they use the same [music] excuse when they do a crime. Uh to be
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honest, uh Rachel, she was killed in front of the camera and clear [music] for the whole world what she's doing and they killed her. They don't care. I [music] don't think the colonization needs an excuse. [music] Yeah, they could do whatever they want because
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in the end of the day, no one will going to punish them or deal with them.
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23-year-old stands in front of an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. The bulldozer drives over her, crushing her to death.
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An Israeli investigation took one month and found no Israeli soldier was to blame. During our stay, we saw countless murals and memorials honoring citizens, [music] humanitarians, and journalists who have lost their lives during this conflict and the ones before it. Since October
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7th, Israel has killed more reporters than any other army in any conflict in [music] recorded history. With over 250 journalists just like me killed while attempting to report on these [music] atrocities in Palestine. As we left the memorial, I couldn't help but feel the
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reality of the situation setting in it. With violence against humanitarians and journalists occurring on a regular basis, perpetrated by both the Israeli government and settler population, I felt a bit nervous, and it was hard to imagine being Palestinian having to live
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with this constant anxiety day and night. Around sunset, we traveled into a small village in the hills of Al Mufakara, just south of Hbran, and spoke to villagers midway through the process of setting up a nightly patrol to
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protect their community from settler attacks. without any effective leadership. They say that peaceful self-defense measures are their only option.
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October. for In addition to the civilian attacks, home demolitions, and other war crimes committed every single day, settlers have also used animal abuse as a way to try to force Palestinians off their land and create terror. For centuries, people
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in villages like in Massaperiata have made their living through agriculture and livestock and has been passed down through generations, [music] providing food, money, and forging a deep connection to the land. Because of this, [music] settlers will steal, torture,
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cut the eyes out of, or even kill the sheep that belong to villagers, typically by going into their houses or farms to commit horrible crimes against these animals. Intentional infliction of trauma and terror aside, without any source of food or income, communities
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often starve, have to move elsewhere for sustenance, and slowly disappear as nearby illegal settlements grow and continue to expand. [music] As we conducted this interview, a settler rolled up on an ATV, apparently employing a common tactic of intimidation that settlers like him use
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on villagers every single day. Now, maybe we'll see him with the normal uniform, but in the night he wear the soldier uniform and he come back and start searching houses and interrogating people.
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He will go there and he will call the army the Iowa. Yeah. And he will tell them he will just lie like people are attacking me and there is also visitors also try to attacking me. So to make it more complicated for
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the people here. As we said way back in episode 1, the goal is to clear the area by any means necessary and provoking a reaction from a Palestinian villager gives the Israeli settler the upper hand in terms of I
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guess fighting back in self-defense and then calling in the army for [music] backup. After that, the army can arrest whoever was involved in the confrontation, of course, the Palestinian. Then, while people are detained, the army and settlers can come
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back together, often swapping outfits to declare the Palestinian homes their own. Then of course from there they'll tear everything down maybe to one day be populated by Americans from New York City or Boca Raton, Florida. On certain rare occasions where a villager has
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decided to call the police to report a settler trespassing on their property and trying to intimidate them, the police that responded, aka the Israeli army, not only refused to help the villagers, but then arrived and threatened one of them with jail time if
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he called the cops again. for [music] these men do their best to keep their [music] families safe, but women and children in the village are put through the same harassment and daily violence from settlers. During our visit, we
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spoke with several kids about what it's like growing up there. One boy, Ahmed, shared a story about how he's been personally harassed.
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We were able to gain access to the video of the incident being described where Ahmed was arrested for allegedly throwing stones. Throwing stones is a common charge in the West Bank that allows the Israeli army to arrest and
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detain children indefinitely. One thing that came up repeatedly in our conversations was concern for the next generation. So before leaving, we gave Ahmed one of our camcorders, showed him how to use it, and welcomed [music] him to the Channel 5 news team as a civilian
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correspondent. We asked him to film his life, his village, what he thought was important. Over the course of the next 5 years, we'll be keeping track of his footage, distributing it on Channel 5 in bursts, and keeping you all in the loop.
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See you guys. With the absence of an effective Palestinian [music] government, and no real method to get justice, legally speaking, people like those in the village can only make their case to one authority, the media, like us. But even
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speaking to journalists can result in arrest. Especially if they're found to have distributed videos of settler attacks directly to a media member, that in itself carries a penalty. For this reason, the distribution of media depicting settler attacks like iPhone
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videos and stuff like that is done on encrypted platforms [music] where videos are sent, collected, and distributed by an organization called Alhawk [music] in Ramala, who recently had their YouTube channel taken down and entire catalog cleared, resulting in the permanent
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deletion of hundreds of videos depicting human rights violations. They've [music] also been officially declared a terrorist organization by Israel.
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Anyways, back to the scrubbing of Alhawk's YouTube channel. So, that deletion was caused by a US review [music] that found the channel was working with the ICC, who had an open investigation into Benjamin Netanyahu's war crimes, which they issued an
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official arrest warrant for in November of 2024. So, if you're wondering why you're hearing about Alhawk right now for the first time, that's why they [music] were effectively erased from the internet right as settler violence began to reach its peak after October 7th. But
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still, even in the shadows and shadowbanned on every major platform, Alhawk [music] has meticulously collected digital media and personal testimony for the past two and a half years.
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No one can uh hold them accountable. No one will ask them anything. The maximum maximum maximum is condemnations, just statements, uh press release.
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There are 150 juvenile delinquents that are not part of that community. They come from the other parts of Israel. We are uh I don't want vigilantes of any kind and we are working to put them under the law.
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That's the max. What's our role in this case? Our role is to document the human rights violation according the international standards of the documentation means that we don't depend on media in our information. We depends on our information from the eyewitnesses or the
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victims themselves and we don't document everything. We have no capacity to document everything. But we said right to life is fundamental right. Now when it comes after October 7th I think they said that we have free hands uh and
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there's no limits. I am one from those they think that the Israelis they have limits. I used to think like that. I used to think like that. And I think uh it's a mistake.
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I discovered that they have no limits. They do everything everything. And now they continue. This is not an ordinary occupation.
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[music] That's the case. This is showed the hate, the hate, the incitement, [music] the nature of this, you know, colonial regime. When I think about all of these things, I'm not speaking about uh, you know, the competence [music]
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in the battlefield here or there with Hamas or the Israeli soldiers. I'm not speak I'm speaking about pure clear, you know, this is a protected place. This is protected persons. protected persons.
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Why you do this? Why you rape a woman front of her children and her husband?
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Maybe you ask me, does this happen? Yes, [music] it's happened. Yes, it's happened. That's the case.
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This is how the Israel is acting. And it's [music] not an isolate incident. It's part of a widespread [music] practice.
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October 7th or more than October 7th or less than October 7th or any [music] time and anything happened, it doesn't justify the Israeli reactions.
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It doesn't justify committing [music] atrocities and genocide. It doesn't justify committing war crimes and war and crimes against humanity. It doesn't justify to kill babies, children, people, civilians [music] like that. It doesn't justify to attack the health system, the rest of the health system in
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Gaza. To [music] go, for instance, and to attack injured person, he is in the intensive care unit and send drone, small drone, and kill him inside the intensive care unit. It doesn't justify, you know, to close the [music] cities
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and villages and cut off between the Palestinian communities. It doesn't justify rape of Palestinian uh prisoners. It [music] just doesn't justify torture and killing a prisoners in their hands. [music] [clears throat] Here you see that the Israelis they act
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as they [music] are acting in the jungle. Maybe you ask me, do you have information? Said we have more than information, we have stories. [music] And this has happened against thousands of Palestinians.
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Until today, they are treating them badly. For instance, you take a doctor, a doctor from the uh hospital, [music] taking him here, beating, torturing Baba, all of these things because you don't feed them for days. You throw a
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yogurt [music] can like this on the floor and ask him to [music] take it by his and his uh hands cuffed back of him.
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This is wow. I think this is a sick society and this is a sick army and this is a sick people. [music] That's that's the case.
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Do you think with this new generation of young kids growing up in the West Bank, there [music] could be any kind of major resistance movement that grows in the following decades?
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Look, I don't know [music] when uh but I'm sure that maybe it's uh tomorrow. I don't know. But I know one main thing that if there is an occupation, it will be a resistance. If there's [music] a parti system, it will be a
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resistance. If there is colonial regime like the one that we are living in, it's under its uh resistance that's except if we are [music] not normal people and we are normal and we are you know the owner of this
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[music] place. Great. Well, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate the interview. Well, if you look at settler colonialism, you see that this [music] has been a way in which colonists have been able to uh so-cal clear the land. I mean, the
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American move to the west, for example, was, you know, very, very similar to what [music] the Israelis are doing, you know, clearing out a population. I just can't believe in this area, I'm sure you're used [music] to all this, but
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like in with cell phones that there's still a place where someone [music] can kill you, illegally occupy your village, kill you, take any of your stuff, and then the arm is okay with it, and you can't prosecute them, you can't do anything.
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Can't. So, if you were living in um one of these villages, like in Maseriata, and you called the cops, uh who would pick up the phone?
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The IDF controls the the area. Is there a 911 or an emergency line? Even if there was, wouldn't it have any effect?
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There's no PA hotline. Uh, there's no PA hotline. No. So, if you're a victim of a crime and you're Palestinian, you have to call the Israeli.
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You really have no recourse. I mean, calling your Israeli army is, you know, basically out of the frying pan into the fire.
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Is there a way to prosecute a settler who might kill your neighbor? Theoretically, yes. In reality, it's very, very difficult, if not impossible.
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The response by the Israeli military and the settlers is to punish all the Palestinians. There is no accountability for Israeli settlers.
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If you were to try to navigate that difficult path, where would you start? I don't think most Palestinians would put themselves at risk and try to navigate the path. I mean, you you we're talking about not only putting yourself at risk,
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but putting your entire family at risk and everything you own, you know. So, you know, fundamentally, there really is no recourse. The recourse that the Israelis are counting on is that people are going to leave with their, you know,
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vote with their feet. They're going to leave, you know, if they make life hard enough.
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And so, this is why these things are publicized. They're not the secret. I mean the idea I mean what Lennon once said about terrorism. The idea of terrorism is to terrorize.
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I know your number. I know your family. I know where your cousin, your grandma, your father, your uncle. I know where everyone lives.
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The idea of these things is to terrorize people into leaving. Make them vote with their feet and get out. Same thing in Gaza. No more goals to clear the area.
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Understanding the difference between legal consequences for Palestinians protecting their land versus the settlers attempting to displace them illegally can be confusing and contradictory, but it's reality.
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It's interesting you said they're not recognized by the Israeli government and the outposts, not but I feel like there's this gray area that the they love to kind of like dance around because there is a relationship between Benir and the outpost
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settlements, right? Mhm. I mean, I don't know how it works functionally, but the attitude of Smatri or Ben Gavir or Daniela Weiss who I interviewed would be it's not the West Bank, it's Judea and Samaria. It's historically in their view
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the Jewish homeland and therefore it should all be settled. They're only sorry that that there's basically any Palestinians there and they'd like to see more. All the settlements, they want to see it all annexed. The West Bank has
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not been annexed. It's under occupation. So, it's in this weird limbo of 60 years of being controlled by the Israeli military, but not recognized officially as part of Israel. So, there's 3 million Palestinians who don't have full rights.
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They don't have voting rights. They don't have their own nation and they live for the most part in either villages or cities that to different degrees are subject to, you know, explicit and intense IDF control. So smart church Bengala Weiss would say
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well we just call it Israel and you either agree to be part of Israel and you'll get some rights or if you don't then you leave and you're forcibly deported. It dawned on me that while completely out in the open just the
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sheer difficulty like logistically of getting this footage from SD cards in the West Bank then edited and published on social media for the world to see is an unnecessarily momentous task. And I'm not just talking about the customs
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process in Israel or the issue of security when actually filming content in Palestine, but I'm talking about the [music] final frontier, which is distributing this kind of content online. The big four platforms are entirely owned by Zionist [music]
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captured tech oligarchs who have been directly paid and funded by lobbying [music] groups within Israel and the US who have one interest. suppressing the truth about the horrific things happening in Palestine and making sure that Western viewers [music] and content
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consumers remain mostly in the dark about this stuff. This particular issue of censorship in the West when it comes to Palestine coverage is particularly [music] extreme in one place, the UK, birthplace of 21 Savage, enemies of kneecap.
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Have you heard of the group Palestine Action before? Yes, of course. Yeah. So while I was in the hills of Hebron, which was last January, our New York City correspondent JP Scatini was in the streets of London where large groups of Brits were being
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arrested and taken to jail for saying two words, Palestine action. Here's a look at that.
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It brings me a little bit of sadness to say that free speech laws here in Britain are not what they are in the United States.
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Free speech is very important. I don't know if you're referring to any place in particular. Perhaps they are, but we've had free speech for a very, very long time here. So, we're very proud of that that we protected.
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That's right. Cuz here in the UK, you can spend up to 6 months in prison for holding a sign or putting [music] on a pin with a phrase that the government doesn't like. And that's exactly what's happened over the past 5 months or so.
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Over 2,200 people have been arrested here in the UK for holding up signs in favor [music] of a group called Palestine Action, a direct action protest group here in the UK that back in July the British government designated as a terrorist organization.
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So, we're here in Tavistock Square in London where protesters have gathered. And here at 1 p.m., they are all in unison going to write the [music] phrase, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action." And then line up to
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be arrested in mass. My name's Alice. This is my girlfriend Rebecca. Um, she decided to come here today handcuffed to me [music] and put this sign which is, you know, clearly in support of a terrorist organization.
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My name's Paul. I'm with a socialist choir called Strawberry [music] Thieves. labor acting just like Tories. La I'm here to support the people who are fighting for the freedom of expression.
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As you can see behind me, [laughter] there have got to be between 50 and 100 police officers here and now the police are going one by one and making arrests.
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The protesters are not making it easy on them. They have gone limp. They are not resisting arrest but are refusing to help them do their jobs. And so one by one they are being carried out by a group of five to six officers at a time.
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Do you have anything you want to say to the people as you get dragged out?
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Free Palestine. Stop enabling the people who are killing people. That's what I want you to do. In our thousands, we will oppose you. We want you to do the right thing.
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How they're picking up this beautiful human being. It is disgusting as we are seeing THE EROSION OF BRITISH DEMOCRATIC VALUES AT the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu. Shame on this government.
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This government doesn't have a leg to STAND ON. THIS GOVERNMENT is being dictated BY THE ZIONIST LOBBY. NOT JUST IN the United States, but across the globe.
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It's the mannequin. She's the terrorist. I'm innocent. She has a mind of her own.
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It's the mannequin. It's the terrorist. DOES NOT BE. ALL I did was FALL IN LOVE. [screaming] I don't want to.
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I like your handcuffs, but I just don't want to. Rebecca, don't separate me from her. I can't be away. My name is Sam Weinstein.
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I'm part of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network here in the UK. And I'm here to support people who are opposing genocide.
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The fact that you can be arrested for protesting the prescription of Palestine action and for opposing genocide is insane. And this is taking place after the United Nations believes that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. The fact that
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for holding a sign you can be labeled a terrorist in this country is absolutely nuts. The amount of police officers that is here today just shows the priorities of this state in suppressing any kind of political descent. That's what we're
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here to highlight. So since the UK's free speech crackdown began a couple years back. Two things have happened. Kier Starmer, the Labour Party MP, has resigned and the Palestine Action defendants have been convicted and sentenced to prison for terrorism.
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[music] In a significant ruling, Judge Jeremy Johnson determined that the offenses carried a terrorism connection, [music] saying the attack was intended to influence British government policy and advance a political cause.
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All this stuff happening in the UK weighed on my mind. And back in the US, too, where I've covered a bunch of different protests. I [music] wondered if the people of Palestine knew how much of the world was with them. Despite the
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absence of Palestinian soldiers, local militias to defend against settlers, or any real resistance group being active to fight for Palestinians in the West Bank, there are so many people on their side who want to help them. Every major
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city in America has held daily protests for their cause. Socialist [music] politicians in the US are winning seats across the country, becoming mayors, congress people, and state senators [music] just by primarily running on the platform of divestment from Israel. As
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the world turns gradually against Israeli occupation, it's strange to be in Palestine, where things are only seeming to get worse. My point being that despite this mass overhaul of worldwide support, Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza [music]
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remain mostly alone to fight a cruel beast larger and more powerful than most of us can fathom. But that's when I remembered there technically is a Palestinian government, right, the PA.
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They're in control of a solid 18% of the West Bank and most places where Palestinians live. They've got a seat at the UN. And even within Palestine, they've got a courthouse, a jail, and they have cop cars everywhere. In fact,
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they're the biggest employer in the territories. This left me with one big question. Where are they? Where is the PA? Here's what Palestinians have to say. The Palestinian Authority is a big lie.
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This authority it has no power. During my time in Palestine, the PA had been like a ghost, hardly even there.
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And despite my best attempts to reach them, I was unable to make [music] contact. But on the last day, our team got a call from the head of security services, the equivalent to the general of the PA army. He said he wanted to
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meet up to discuss what could be done to resist settler expansion in the West Bank. So I took a trip to Ramala for the meeting. His name was Anoir Rajab, Brigadier General of the PA, a former bodyguard for Yaser Arafat during the
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second inifat, now in charge, who claimed he had a plan. Of course, if you'd like to see our full interview with the Palestinian general, and support us while doing it, we've just put the entire thing up on Patreon at
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www.patreon.com/ channel 5, where subscribers pay five bucks a month to gain access to our entire catalog of early, exclusive, uncensored, and unreleased content with the knowledge that they're supporting us while doing it. As many of you guys know, Channel 5 is a totally independent
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operation that exists without a single dollar of corporate investment and is currently upscaling and expanding our operations in the midst of a lawsuit.
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So, we need to keep the Patreon booming to finance our ongoing mission. Again, if you want to see the full Anoir Rajab interview and follow our crew as we speak with the victims of the Janine Camp displacement, head to our Patreon
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and consider supporting us. I'm going to put the link in the pin comment and description box of this video. Have a great day.
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CHANNEL 5 LIVE WORLDWIDE, HOLLYWOOD, and Vine. the authority. Channel 5 News, CHANNEL 55. WE DON'T WITH CUSTERS AND FIVE IS THE best number. [screaming] Hey, hey, what's up, guys? There's something I forgot to tell you about. We also just launched our own streaming
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platform called C5. [music] Now, we have five films on there right now. Film number one, The Art of Protest, made by the homies over at Indecline, who we interviewed a few months back. Film [music] two, rat film by Theo Anthony,
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set in Baltimore, investigates the lives and times of the rodent population through the eyes of the people who love the rats of Baltimore, study the rats of Baltimore, or are paid to execute and trap the rodents of Charm [music] City.
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Documentary number three, Starcash by Haley Garagus. An amazing Wall [music] Street documentary that follows the lives of market predictors. That's right, stock analysts who stare [music] at the planets to figure out what's going to happen with the money.
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Documentary number four, it's called Physician Heal Thyself by director Asher Penn. A fascinating lifelong profile featuring tons of archival footage documenting a physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, sorcerer of the mind named Gabbor Mate. Very influential dude as far as addiction and trauma and healing.
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He's about as good as it gets. He's the top dog in that realm. So check that documentary out. Documentary number five is my own. Had to put my own sauce on there to get the train moving. It is
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called Finding Orson. a 45minute documentary that I shot over the course of a year and [music] a half trying to reunite a beloved friend and elderly community member named Rick Shore with his lost parrot named Orson.
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Maybe he's just too [music] embarrassed to admit that he doesn't want the the bird anymore.
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So those are the five films on C5.now. A totally independent creator residual forward [music] power to the people documentary platform, not gatekeep by Hollywood. And what's unique about C5 now is that unlike the major studios, we're [music] not afraid to take a risk.
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And of course, pay creators fairly. The link is in the pin comment and description box of this video. And most importantly, it's [music] not just a website. It's an app on your phone and a smart TV app. So get your popcorn, get
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your remote, sit down. It's time to learn. I'll see you guys soon. [music]
Topics:PalestineWest BankIsraeli settlerssettler violenceJenin refugee campOperation Iron WallHebronIsraeli armydisplacementapartheid
