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0 thought you had demolished 134 bits, seen homes in his jerusalem, and his pursuit for his are made homeless. this is a major violation of international law. of course, the rate of demolitions and the frequency has only increased with the new as really are in sworn and last summer as your source. i've been relentless nor families offered compensation. no family is given a new residence to go to. this is all part of the jerusalem dispatch is proclaimed goal of maintaining quote unquote assaulted jewish majority in city of jerusalem. the spring contact talked to reasoning municipality for statements that we could included in today's episode. they declined, they didn't respond, so we will continue our conversation with yara xena and muhammad yara, welcome to the strain, get to have you, please introduce yourself to our global audience. thank you for having me. my name is yara. hello, lori. i'm a senior analyst,

sugar. hello xena. welcome to the screen. please introduce yourself to ad lab audience. tell them who you are and what you do. hi everyone. i am the correspondent and your son for the al jazeera english website. here to have you and the how made welcome to the stream. really good. have you, can you right now it is who you are, what you do. thank you. thanks for having on my name from a recorded i'm from jerusalem goldstein and i'm currently the policy correspondent for the nation here in new york. i would start our conversation with you telling me that you can be part of it as well. if you're on youtube right now, a comment section is live comments, questions, concerns. but them right here, i do my best to include them in the show. i want you to meet 2 people. this is mohammed and his daughter, yasmin. it was their home that really inspired us to do this story and what happened to their home? they were forcibly expelled. this is mohammed followed by his daughter yasmin,

talking about that experience certain things and then oh, so they load of sal to a m. my son woke me up and said that the army are entering the house. i couldn't leave the room. they came in and arrested me. they stepped on my back and the officer said, i told you i will come and evict you from your home. and i will let you leave your house like a dog barefoot. he stepped on my back and told me, put your head down. i told him that i never put my head down. love little, little dog. because i was leaving the house was demolished. i saw videos and my videos. my heart is broken. i don't know how to express myself. the house that i was raised in now was torn up. everything in the house is gone. the feeling is so hard to see that my father's hard work for 25 years is demolished our memories, my father's heritage, in this land. everything has gone. even the cats and animals that raise in the land, our guide. li, if that really less will start when we come. so she has an air fail, autumn, relentless humphries, one word that comes to mind,

humanity is why i'm sure that usa mia's policy was give you one reason for why. what is your reason for why this would happen? i mean, honestly, there is always a myriad of reasons as to why such international law violations happen under is really rule underneath rule occupied uniform. but we all know that this rule just jurisdiction over palestinian land is inherently illegal. so why? the question becomes why the answer is because there used to be a spectacle of violence and a spectacle of dominance over palestinian lives. in the past year, we saw palestinians rise up between the river and the sea chant anti colonial chance, and this has worried authorities, and now they are retaliating and they are making sure they are making a show out of it. this is not just to displace the pulse 1000000000 family, but it is about making political, making political again and gaining political popularity among israeli citizens. who

are you know, disheartened to say the least by the palestinian national sentiment that has been re popularized in the past few months. if the to resume municipality xena had replied to a request to give us a statement so we can understand where they were coming from in this instance. why they would do this in the middle of the night to a family who would own that property for many, many years. what would they say? what is the official reason they're giving xena? and they said that the land had been expropriated for public use to build a special needs school. that was the official lum statement that they gave us. but we just have to point out that there was no demolition order on the house. and so the legal pretext is actually irrelevant here. and yet when we see this family story, this family story is not an individual story. there are many, many families who are also living with this threat. but this family, they,

they tried really hard to say, okay, let's use the legal means in order to protect us. what do they do? our one thing postings, not that when they engage in the colonizers legal regime, they're not really hung paying for much, or expecting much, it's a matter of buying time. so, you know, one tool and a large, a tool box of resistance, son. and i think, you know, even the many decades we know that we can never achieve justice within this. ready, the regime is designed for a specific purpose. and that is to maintain jewish israeli dominant. so the palestine population. and so when palestinians do engage in these various tactics about buying time and, and trying to raise awareness with the international community in the hope that there is some kind of outside pressure on the israeli regime. this is what i'm looking at at the local reaction and the local reaction to it could have re but

basically a family's house demolished. so i, that's a whole lot more than a right. but after that, so called raid low who's came out local to a palestinian also locals who is re jewish as well, which is really important. you can see some of their reaction in protest. following the definition taken up i, it's apartheid today. we are facing a fierce attack and shake gerard by settlers and israeli government. they want to evict the neighborhood in order to build $200.00 housing unit. oh, and then i demonstrate about mm hm. i

xena, when you were reporting this story, this, this incident, what did you see? what did you share with the out of the audience? online actually woke up early the day at 6 am and i had seen the the really authorities were pulling out the area. so i went there, they had closed off the entire area completely while they were reading and demolishing the house. afterwards. there were a few journalists, the family had left there a do the arrested for family members, the head of the household, and 2 of his sons and his nephew as well. sorry. it was extremely cold outside, my hands were hurting. so i was just thinking about how the family managed for 2 days to stand on top of their house to try and resist the demolition. and on

a top and there were only a few journalists there. there weren't that many people. the house, you know, they didn't give them time to take anything out of the house, all of their belongings. there were some books on the floor. you could see the families belongings as was heartbreaking. and yeah, there was a, there was a protest the next day. but honestly, you know, demolition take place on a weekly basis, let's say in jerusalem. palestinians themselves can't keep up with the news. and so it's, it's not a unique situation in that. what happens in just a lot of the stuff that's not how your family is not unique. yesterday there was a demolition and toward the east of the old city where there are at least 15 people . it was a 22 story, very large home. so, so it's,

it's kind of like people are getting all these things happen and people just are forced to move on how things are forced. and, you know, if you say, palestinians themselves can't keep up with the news, you know, and not, it's not a yellow ticket that know, trying to keep up with the latest, the latest forced exposure and how do you even do that? yeah, and i also want to respond to that, the kid that we just saw, i think there's a big difference between the narrative of the palestinian street and the grassroots, and the israeli until occupation activists. you know, palestinians, we palestinians recognize that this is an israeli raising strategy across colonized palestine to displace palestinians to squeeze palestinians in tiny, tiny pockets of land to basically banister noise them. and this isn't just happening in jerusalem on the west bank. this is happening across called us punish thought, for example, in the knock up or so it may be known as that the negative, commonly known as the neck of an english. we're seeing thousands of palestinians

being displaced and having that, that homes destroyed on that land. annex from the key points about sexual drawn, white, mobilized so many people over the summer 70 palestinians is because it encapsulates the entire palestinian experience of all force displacement at the hands of the israeli regime. and i think that is the major and crucial difference between the 2 different groups of activists. i want to focus in on this particular area of east jewish im, jeshira because it's one area that we've gone to know quite well internationally. but the idea of living there as a palestinian mohammed, that idea of will i be out to go home tonight and what will happen to my home? what will happen to our family home, what will happen, drive business and livelihood? can you help us get a great, a sense of that? because those are feelings, those. those are sort of psychological feelings that you can always put on

a news claim or put on the news. certainly i think, i think is in i was treated very well when she said that there is, you know, a relentlessness to this oppression. one cannot keep up with it. it's constant and it happens all the time. and particularly, i know growing up, you grew up with the sleeplessness, anderson's diety, regarding whether or not you're going to be able to go to your home. i say this without forgetting to mentioned that policy and mentioned that across on i was saying have been able to develop a thicker scan, right. so like we are, we are receiving all these punches, but we are resisting against them. we're going to against them and we are able to deal were able to deal with them and one way or another. understanding of the militia of the phone for your family. it cannot be understood like read them and so they cannot be understood as an isolated incident. this is a tactic. it has been employed for 7 decades. if not more, to eliminate the native palestinian population, reduced them to small pockets of land and implement this jewish majority. and when

we talk about jewish missouri, we're talking we're taking the words out of the horses. now this is really official language and this anxiety, the sleeplessness, i'm just, i'm this feeling that you do not belong in your land and you're going to be kicked out of your life. certainly haunting. but it's not one that palestinian swallow easily. i'm going to use some use chief comments here because our audience is watching right now and following what you're saying. guess? so this is alan. he says, i am shot, but someone can just march in and take someone's house and live yara explain. well, and like said the palestinians to us so that we've been experiencing this the 2nd 7 decades. and it's been not only supported and followed by the international community, but it's been excused time and time again. and it really is lived reality in palestine. not just as you know, any injuries. i'm excited but, but across and in

a way i think we have to as palestinians, we have to step back and remember that even though that we have experience, it's a whole lot because it is incredibly shocking. and what's even more shocking is that people don't realize that their tax donors are paying for it, not in the us, but also in europe in the u. k. wherever many people are in that me unknowingly contributing to the israeli regimes, ethnic cleansing the palestinian people. i honestly, i understand the ideas of, of international countries outside of israel, paying for what is happening to palestinians and their homes mean demolish. but be more explicit. for people who are watching they were all billions of dollars that go into funding, the israeli army and the ready regime. and those that money is used to direct be used to destroy palestinian homes, to attack palestinians,

to incarcerate palestinians. i'm not through military funding. it's also true various different research gone. technology exchanges. the day is really regime this is so embedded within the israeli regime. this oppression and domination is where the universe is, for example complicit in the the oppression of the palestinian people through their research. military research takes place as israeli universities. and so i don't think people realize how imbedded palestinian oppression is within israel. and regime within is ready society. it's basically that bread and butter is looking at a tweet that mohammed, i wish i had it took us through this tweet, and this is american tax pay up to pay a dollars in action. this way. the occupation authorities assault members of the corolla, family of they've demolished their home in oak, applied to recently. this is not the same family that's not a that conversation is another family going to have it certainly, i mean,

there is, when we talk about billions of dollars in the united states, particularly we have 3.8 $1000000000.00 a year that the american taxpayer just give away to the israeli regime to oppress and you humanize palestinians while americans have a terrible education system. public education system will americans have a shattering public healthcare system also does not have clean water, right. we're also talking about deadly exchange programs in which is ready, please come here and trains, american police, and hyper surveillance and racial profiling tactics that can also lead to that. as we have seen in minneapolis, the murder of george lloyd. these are the, these, these, these are the ways that are oppression is connected to these foreign governments that give aid to, to those really government that allow them to continue to subjugation of us oil while all while tweeting their concerns and coming up, selling their diplomats or neighborhoods from our food and express their dismay at

the oppression that we are facing. this is hypocrisy that must be exposed on the global arena. you cannot just send the diplomats to my backyard and then also send billions of dollars behind my back to find the very oppression that you are concerned about. the irony of where to plymouth lives in east jerusalem where they live and so of all they seem to little are they seeing these 46 expulsions? yeah. would you describe that once to our team as standing on the balcony and being able to watch the rates happen? god was metal. yeah. mom was using it so it's not about you guys. and then you know, you go 2nd because you showing the the same perspective god i'm saying it's not a metaphor you there can actually when we are being tear gassed or when our homes are being sprayed, what's con quarter, they can smell it from their windows. this is not something that we,

they have to go online to see the something that they can physically see from their windows. i want to bring in a thought here from somebody we spoke to a little bit earlier that night to the jerusalem human rights consortium. this is forrest who talked about there being no consequences to forcibly removing palestinians from the home, even though it is illegal. this is what pharmacy told us area to release one. she's only radi says, the signature of the was records. and practically, since then, i've been governed by 3 government and the parents is really probable still, it was even the former head of the worst secular cause of us seconds. and the circular movement is a strategic are part of equilibrium system. in addition, the certain construction of north personally comes at no cost. well, it comes from international presence. have international community. why has it is

a profitable a g policy con siena in oliver reporting? have you ever seen any consequences for palestinians losing their homes? illegally consequences for israeli officials. no. ah, there is no such thing as the accountability here is earl as the sole power on the ground. and it employs a policy of creating facts on the ground and, and, you know, past indians, for example, the thought here, family, they're planning to go to the international criminal court. and, and that's, that's been going on the investigation from the channel canal court. ah, has been going on for a while or it was approved recently for them to start investigation and they've just started the process. i don't think nothing in the near future. see any kind of, ah, ah, accountability for it's early officials. i now i want to share with

you a conversation that i corresponded jane space had a united nations with the and you an ambassador to you and from israel. and i'm just gonna let james phase pick up the conversation because he asked about the forced exposures. and missed the response. outside the council chamber, i asked these railey ambassador to explain his government's actions and shake gerra in regards to what you asked me about, the supposed evictions. again, israel is a low biding country. we have a very respected in responsible and independent legal system. will you don't abide by you and security council resolutions that's international. our, our legal system is her, is her respected internationally and our courts are m. as i said,

independent man, i did, you see the ambassador, i qualify for evictions that he did request because they're actually forced exposure or legally i don't think so. yeah, i was saying, i think he was just disappointed the journalist did not say ethnic cleansing, but i think that flip is hilarious, right? i could sit here in law all day long, but that doesn't mean that i'm telling the truth thing that is rid of the law abiding country or that the system is in the legal system. it's defended. it's comical, and it's also completely this honest, this is a system that was built by enforce settlers as we have seen time and time again. these are the settlers that live in our neighborhood that go to rule on our line. this is a country that had violated international laws time and time ago. and the problem is the international community has offered and allowed and gifted there is really regime impunity after impunity more and impunity. this is,

these are crimes if committed by another nation. they would be condemned and it would be punished and there would be real consequences. but in our case, more money gets funneled into the regime and more policies get displayed and we get nothing beyond raise, eyebrows and condemnation. a couple of thoughts here for watching right now. yeah. you go ahead and, and what he's asking is how can the viewers and people around the world support palestinians as they are being pushed out of their good i would say to him using that, he said that the israeli in session on a really legal regime. it's respected by being social community because it's simply not true. the israeli military court system has a 99 percent conviction, right. it's known for its kangaroo court is been continuously condemned as a legal system. and it's also the regime is a signatory to so many international treaties and it constantly violates those

treated. the company violates international law. and the fact that this, this man and one of the representatives of the israeli regime on co is just really it's, it's a pattern of failure to hold israel account and it's, and it's long have to shay something. was he that mohammed sent to us to really explain the difficulty of family saying how do we protect ourselves? so i'm just going to play the video, have a listen very carefully. oh, a car on i'm just going to stop there. who could this monday? let me just scroll up so you can see yo 10 yoseph that jerusalem councilman that handles building permits is angry tonight. he sites the bible with historical

evidence and potential god is he's real estate agent. fantastic. secular regime says we talk about the challenges, the difficulties of palestinians live in occupied east jerusalem. you can see that when they're asking for building permits or, or requesting for the safety of their homes and their families, that it's difficult beyond difficult. i'm going to say thank you to yara xena mohammed for being part of today's program. i really appreciate you. it is not an easy conversation to have ever, and i'm not even sure where the progress is happening, but i'm really glad that you were able to bring your reporting xena your thought shower mohammed for to out as you are to the stream. so our international audience can stay up to date with the latest and also the past, know, and humanity side of this issue. thanks for watching us the next time ah,

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