Palestinians struggling with Israeli settlements

CGTN Europe

Pro-Israeli group, WestBankJewishPopulationStats, reported that the settler population in the West Bank rose from 502,991 to 517,407 in the past year.  CGTN travels to Qusra, a #Palestinian village founded in 1596 under the Ottoman Empire, to speak to residents about their encroaching settler neighbors.   Located 16.3 km south east of Nablus, residents now fear they are being cut-off from the rest of the West Bank, but legally they can do nothing to stop it.   #Palestine #Israel #WestBank #Nablus #Israeli #settlements

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00:00 All of this land is for olives.

00:07 As you can see, it's ruined because no one dares to go to the land to pick the olives.

00:12 We'd get shot.

00:13 Taking this war as an opportunity.

00:17 Each day they become more aggressive and they take more and more of our land.

00:24 You can see the entire northern and eastern region is now closed.

00:28 It means we've been surrounded, isolated and unable to escape.

00:32 The goal is to separate the northern West Bank.

00:36 The Israeli coordination office saw what the settlers did and said it's illegal.

00:41 We should file a case.

00:42 But in court they demand papers we don't have.

00:45 We don't have legal papers for this land since the era of the Turkish, British, Jordan, and

00:50 now Israel.

00:54 They want us all to immigrate, which means what's happening now in Gaza will also happen

00:59 in the West Bank.

01:01 Someday they'll bomb and kill us all so we all leave, because they don't recognize our

01:05 existence in the first place.

01:10 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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