welcome to the palestinian village of alakaba, it's in the northern jordan valley, it's a pastoral community where you'll... find warm and generous people, most of the people who live here raise sheep and goats and live off the land, you think life here would be relatively simple and uncomplicated, it's not, and this is our story.

"the jordan valley is the east part of the occupied west bank, it's the only gate, the only border for the palestinian to communicate with the international community, especially with the arab countries. the jordan valley is considered as the basket food for the palestinian people where you can harvest in the middle of winter, and this big area which is about 30% of the west bank also considered as as kind of..." nist for the future of the palestinian state, this village of el akaba is tiny, but at the same time it's an excellent focal point for understanding the situation today on the west bank. in 1967, 2,0 people lived in this of community, today only scattered families remain. وابوي عن جده وجده عن جده ت نوصل ل

عثمان بن عفان دوله عثمانيه اللي حكمت هاي البلاد فوق ال 400 سنه هلاش مش ساكنين في العكبه احنا في الثمانينات كان في معسكر جيش هون هون بين ياسير والعكبه هسه يمنعونا نروح نيجي في الطريق شايف ما يخلوش يعني جنود انت عارف الجندي مش ادمي شايف هسه احن نخاف على اولادنا نخاف على بناتنا نخاف على اللي رايح يجي وبعدين هناكونا ممنوع ان population inside area sea is - an enemy, hostile population effectively, as a population that is not welcome there, and so it's doing everything it can to make life very difficult for them. to understand the political situation today on the west bank, we have to go back to the year 1453. this was the point in history where the turks conquered the ancient... city

of constantinople, now istanbul, and established the adamman empire. for the next four centuries, the palestinian territory was ruled by the turks, whose main interest was the collection of taxes. as such, the region's history was relatively uneventful, and it is during this period when many of the current el akaba residents settled. then, during the first world war, the turkish government sided with the germans, decision. of not smart, as germany was defeated and the ottoman empire subsequently broken apart. it was during this period that the british took control under what was called the british mandate. it was also during this period when european jews began to immigrate to the region under a political philosophy called zionism, a desire to establish a jewish homeland. tensions grew between these immigrants and the native population, and the british... turn to the newly created united

nations to help sort out the problem they had helped create in the first place. in 1948, the un, in a vote of the general assembly, created israel, and immediately a war broke out between israel and its arab neighbors. after series of brutal battles in which tens of thousands of palestinians fled, an armistus was established and jordan took control of the area known as the west bank or west of the. jordan river. then, again in 1967, a war broke out between israel, jordan, and egypt. israel decidedly won this conflict, and in the process occupied the west bank, rusting control from jordan. this occupation continues today and is the core of the ongoing struggle. in an effort to find resolution, series of secret talks took place in oslow norway in 1993. the result was a

plan to divide the west bank into three areas: a, b, and c. area a, the major cities, such as romala and janin, would fall under... civil and political control, area b would be jointly controlled, these areas being mostly areas containing medium-sized communities, and area c would be the rural areas, primarily the jordan valley. under the accords, this division of land was to exist for five years, during which time final status agreement would be drawn. this agreement, however, has never come about, and the division. of land is still very much in place and the palestinian population is constantly reminded of that fact really for palestinians in area c that the way that israel treats them as a hostile population, it makes them their lives as difficult as possible. most of the population and

palestinian population are rural communities base their livelihoods are based on agriculture, and so the two things they need more than anything else, land and water, "this is what they need, the essentials of their lives, and so what israel is doing is making both, taking both those elements away from them, it's restricting their access to their land, it's using various means to do that, it's confiscating lot of land, declaring it state land, it's creating military zones, firing zones, fifth of the area sea a firing zones, military firing zones, and the goal of course is to to remove them from their land in area c and move them into areas b and ideally into area a." no one exemplifies the situation better than othman spay. growing up in alaqaba, he was forced to move to the neighboring area b town of tasir. he now commutes back to alakabe each day to supervise production in the communities. كنت

انا وامي ابوي. في كنت انا وامي وتسعه اخوي لي تسعه وامي 10 عايشين في الغرفتين هذول وبقوا الاسرائيليين مانعينا نبني غرفه نظيف عليهم او حتى حمام ممنوع نحن قالوا لنا هذول موجودات بيظلن موجودات بدكم تعيشوا فيهم بدكم تعيشوا فيهم روحوا على تياسير على طوباس على نابلس في عننا مشكله المهم هذول بظلن هيك عن وخلص مالكم شيون فنحن صمدنا وظلينا هناك بس انا يوم تجوزت. انجبرت اني اجي اشتري وابني واقعد هون لانه ما في مجال لانه انا صار عندي عائله يعني فوق اخوتي تسعه صار عندي عائله اولاد اثنين صغار ف يعني بعد ما صار عندي اولاد اثنين صغار انجبرت اني اشتري واستقر وابني البيت ultimately what israel wants is it wants it all it wants the

whole of the west bank the question is whether it can get away with doing that and it certainly can't get away with doing it in one fell swoop so what it's doing is what famous israel general called mashaden called creeping annexation, it's slowly, incrementally taking the land away from the palestinians and it's focusing most of its efforts on the rural land, the agricultural land, the the largest part of the west bank, and so slowly area se is being ethnically cleansed, there are few and fewer palestinians, we know for instance that in 1967 there were about a third of million palestinians just in the jordan valley itself, today the best figure. we have suggest there are around 100 thousand palestinians in the whole of area sea, so it's quite clear, it's a very graphic illustration of quite how effective the ethnic cleansing policies have been over over four or five decades, they really cleared the area out. think about it, just let us think

that those palestinian bidwan families who live in in almost about 52 communities without any kind of service, it's denied by the... incubation to have even fresh water, they can hear water running in the bibes under their feet, but they can't drink from it, the electricity wears is a crossing over their tent, but they can't, it's just for the zinest jewish colony in the jordan valley, people stay in the jordan valley because they feel that it's just the only place where they can have their own dignity, and those people who are staying without all kind of this... service, they belong, they are part of the soil, they are part of the climate, and they will never leave. many people over the years have moved out of alaqaba, but you stayed. why did you decide to stay when many people,

many families have had to move away? انا رايح اموت هون في العقبه لانه هاي الارض هاي عن عن ابا وجد. لكن اللي له ارض الارض هي هي هي الدم الانسان انا شو بدي اروح اسوي فيها ياسير شو اللي في هات ياسير بدي اتفرج على الشوارع ولا اتفرج على الدور طيب هي عرضي وهاي منطقتي وهي عيشتي وهاي حياتي يعني شو شو بدي اروح شو بدي اروح اعمل فيها اروح على باريس اسكن في باريس ودشه ارضي شو بدي اسوي فيها باريس والله عندي شايف العزيز الشجره هي بتسوي باريس ورا climate existing today on the west bank,

there is a cornerstone of the village that completely representative of the political makes it quite unique to itself, that uniqueness is first encountered as you drive up the main road into the village. انا اسمي الحج سامي صادق رئيس مجلس قروي العقبه من مواليد 1955 وصبت بثلاث رصاصات من قبل قوات الاحتلال بتاريخ 28/6 عام 71 كان عمري في ذلك التاريخ 16 عاما مما يدى الى اصابتي بشلل نصفي تام ومنذ ذلك التاريخ وانا اعمل من هذا الكرسي المتحرك. when when you hear the jets and and

you see the soldiers in the field and hear the tanks. انا باستمرار بشعر بالحزن لمضايقات قوات الاحتلال لاهالي قريه العقبه هذه الصغيره هذه القريه لم تتعرض لقوات الاسرائيليه. حجر واحد منذ حرب عام 67 الا ان القوات الاسرائيليه ترد على طلبنا من اجل السلام العادل وبدون احتلال بتدمير شارع السلام بتدمير الاراضي الزراعيه باحراق المزروعات باحراق المراعي ب الضغط على المواطنين لترحيلهم بحجه ان اراضي قاره العقبه هي منطقه عسكريه مغلقه ومنطقه جيم ولكن اننا نشعر بالالم وven as the mayor works towards finding an equitable solution. ironically, immediately across the road from alaba's welcome sign is the home of akmed

hamdon, his house, his under demolition orders, and he and his family go to sleep each evening with fears of waking to the sounds of tanks and military bulldozers coming up the road to level his home. وابوي طبعا من بعده وريث وريث له وبعدها جيت انا يعني هي الارض على زمان اجدادي واسم الطابوا هسا لحد هسه اطابوا في اسم سيدي حسين الجابر جابر يعني ارض ممتلكه من من سنين يعني سيدي الله يرحمه س تاريخ تاريخ ميلاد سيدي سنه 1900 بجوزه 23 24. سيدي ولد سنه 1923 24 وهي الارض اجا هو وشراها

طابه يعني خطوب من المحكمه بطرق قانونيه اوراق طابه يعني انا لما تكون عندي في اوراق طابه ثبوتيات في الارض ففي وين المشكله يعني of this state which is called israel and may be other ' groups in this area, they want sustainable resources for their personal future, because i don't think that the israeli political leadership, they are trying to achieve real peace in this area, but because this place is an important junction in the world, and the israeli state and the israeli you know leadership, they want to show the european and the international community that... "they are the ones who can control this international junction, so they want to keep

making a crisis, they want to keep fighting forever, so they will continue receiving help and support from the international community, claiming that the only people who can protect and keep this junction as secure place in the middle of the world, but once the..." idf decides to declare area as firing zone a very large area, it's actually bigger than area a, which is under palestinian control, so these large areas which are declared as as military as firing zones, then become closed military. areas, which means that the army then has kind of a free range to do what it want, what it wants to do, it can move palestinians out, it says it's not safe for them there, and it clears the population out, in a way it's trying to do it as though it's some kind of humanitarian gesture, we don't want you getting caught up in the in - in our military maneuvers, so you have to move out, but of course it's all a pretext for getting palestinians out of off their land and out of their homes. على طلبنا باننا نرغب بسلام عادل

وشامل بدون احتلال اننا نرغب ان نعيش على اراضينا بسلام من اجل ان ننقل هذه العينه هذا النموذج الى القرى والمدن الاخرى ولكن جواب القوات الاسرائيليه تدمير المنازل تدمير شارع السلام حرمان المواطنين من الخدمات حرماننا من الميه حتى هذه اللحظه يضغطون علينا من اجل ترحيلنا بالرا من اراضينا هذه مملوكه لنا بالطابه وارضنا مملوكه ل المواطنين باليطابوا ونحن عايشين فيها قبل الاحتلال ويوجد اراضي منازل مبنيه من سنه 1930 عقود قديمه ولكن الاسرائيليين يرغبون بالاستمرار بانهم بقوموا بمضايقه وتنكيد الحياه على هؤلاء الاطفال والنساء والمواطنين في قراء الذقبه من اجل

ترحيلهم ومصاده اراضيهم بحجه اننا في منطقه سي بحجه اننا في منطقه تشبه جنوب لبنان بحجه ان قريه العقبه هي منطقه عسكريه مغلقه ولكن نحن مش مشكلتنا ان قريه العقبه وجبها تشبه جن لبنان مشكلتنا ان هذه اراضينا محتله واراضينا هي مملوكه لنا بالطابه من عزمان اجدادنا in terms the the whole problem of what's going on between the israelis and the palestinians the the the pressure on the international community is to is to enforce international law you know that's what it's there for. "and it's been ignored for decades or it's been overlooked or it's been twisted, but the international law is fairly fairly clear about what happens here, this is palestinian land, it's part of, we have many resolutions in the un affirming this, so the international community needs to act, it needs to enforce international law, that's what it's there for. what, what do you see in the near future here in the jordan valley?

it's not..." color or white picture and i hope it will not be more black because what's going on in the jordan valley is kind of inithenic cleansing or maybe more it's genocide because there is an authority which is israeli authority making all kind of pressure, all kind of collective punishment against those who still or those who manage to exist on the jordan valley from the palestine. community, replacing them with new kind of people, which is jewish community, and of course this is more than ethan cleansing, what's going on in the jordan valley is kind of stealing the palestinian

resources, that's mean is stealing the future the palestinian a new generation. and it will not be acceptable at all. بين ايديكم في هذه اللحظات المباركه. لنحتفل بعده مناسبات عزيزه على قلوب شعبنا الفلسطيني وهذه المناسبات هي يوم الارض ذكرى معاركه الكرامه يوم الام يوم المراى العالمي يوم الطفل وجديدا يوم الغابات العالميه وفي هذا الشهر من كل عام نحتفل بهذه المناسبات لتجديد

العمل الجاد للحفاظ على ارضنا وحمايتها من ال المصادره والتهويد من قبل قوات الاحتلال. ان اخوانكم في هذه القريه الصغيره يعملون ليل نهار. من اجل ان تبقى جميع الايام لدينا ايام ارض لحمايه ارضنا من التهويد والمصادره. ونعمل جاهدين لفتح الشوارع للمناطق المهدده. وزراعه الاشجار المثمره واستصلاح الاراضي وبناء المؤسسات. حيث اسبحت هذه القريه قريه مؤسسات. حيث تعمل هذه المؤسسات من خلال اتحاد اتحاد مؤسسات قريه العقبه وهي مجلس كروي العقبه جمعيه المراه الريفيه. الخيريه جمعيه العقبه التعاونيه الزراعيه جمعيه العقبه التعاونيه لاسكان المهجرين ناد العقبه للوحد والامل اليوم

الارض الخالد هذه الذكرى التي نؤكد فيها المره فلو المره باننا اصحاب هذه الارض اننا اصحاب حق وان لا وطن ا for people in america who really don't know about the west bank, we really don't know anything at all about the georgia, what's the most important thing about this place? we are human being, i'm a man like you, and my children is like any other children all over the world, it's shame to have this kind of races. a partied regime in the holy land, the future for people in area sea, i think is bleak, unless the international community is prepared to actually do something. israel's focus is on

area c, this is the goal, the immediate goal, and so it's work, it's been working for decades on getting palestinians out of area sea, it's been very successful, and every indication is it's going to continue being very successful unless the international community steps into act. palestinian. can't live there if their lives are being made impossible, if they're surrounded by tanks and firing ranges and it's impossible for them to get water, to get access to their land, there's no way that they can sustain their lives there, becomes impossible, and so unless we're gonna do something about it, we have to say the west, the area sea is gone, 2008, واججت الشعب الامريكي طيب يختلف اختلاف. الحكومه الامريكيه وعن السياسه الخارجيه الامريكيه التي تقوم بدعم الحكومه الاسرائيليه عسكريا باستمرار الجندی الذي اطلق النار عليه هو جندي امريكي وليس جندي اسرائيلي لان هذا

الجندي اواعيه وبسطاره وسلاحه وطيارته ودبابته كله من الشعب الامريكي والحكومه الامريكيه ادعو الشعب الامريكي ان يضغط على الحكومه الامريكيه لوقف عمليه دعم اسرائيل عسكريا بل يدعموها سياسي. بل يدعموها من اجل السلام العادل والشامل واعاده الاراضي الفلسطينيه لاصحابها لا يمكن ان يبقى الظلم مدى الحياه الظلم لا يمكن ان لا يمكن ان ياتي يوما ان يتغير الوضع ولكن قبل ان ياتي الوضع ويكون الشعب الفلسطيني قويا اطلب من الشعب الامريكي ان يكون شعب محترم لدى الشعب الفلسطيني الشعب الاسرائيلي الفلسطيني غاضب جدا على الشعب الامريكي. america is the

main support state or the main resources for for supporting israel, so our message to the american, first of all, don't pay for our killers, don't pay your money to a place where you don't know. "you the most important thing for, i think, for americans to know about what's happening in the west bank right now, is that what we're seeing is a process of sustained ethnic cleansing, the theft of land, the theft of resources of water, and it's being paid for largely by american taxpayers, they're subsidizing this process of ethnic cleansing, it's being done in their name, and because of that there's..." responsibility, moral responsibility on americans to stand up and say, no, it has to stop, it has to end now.

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when palestinian journalist shirin abule was killed by nisvd sniper on may 11, 2022, the israel is meant to get across a clear message, that the... want any narrative other than their own and the decades old occupation of palestinian lands and their aggression. it wasn't the first time israel sought to put gag on the alternative narrative, and every time it has failed. watch the history of the israeli measures and palestinian counter measures in this documentary.

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