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tv   Documentary Encircled 1  PRESSTV  November 28, 2023 10:02am-10:31am IRST

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welcome to the palestinian village of alacaba, it's in the northern jordan valley, it's a pastoral community where you'll find warm and generous people. most of the people that live here raise sheep and goats and live off the land. you'd think life here would be relatively simple and uncomplicated, it's not. and this is our story. the jordan valley is the east part. the
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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 consider as as kind of nest for. for the future of the palestinian state? this village of al-aqaba is tiny, but at the same time, it's an excellent focal point for understanding the situation today on the west bank. in 1967, 2,000 people lived in this community. today, only scattered families remain. وصل ل عثمان بن عفان دوله عثمانيه اللي
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حكمت هي البلد فوق ال 400 سنه هلش مش ساكنين في العقبه نحن في الثمانينات كان في معسكر جيش هون هون بين ياسير والعقبه هسه يمنعونا نروح ونجي في الطريق شايف ما يخلوش يعني الجنود انت عارف الجندي مش ادمي شايف هسه نحن نخاف على اولادنا نخاف على بناتنا نخاف على اللي راح يجي وبعدين هناكونه ممنوع نبني بيت ممنوع نقعد اللي عنده غنم اللي عنده حلالات شو بيسوي well, the way that israel treats the palestinian population inside area sea, is as 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 churchs conquered the على ancient city of constantinople, now istanbul.
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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 of uneventful, and it is during this period when many of the current alwa residents settled. then, during the first world war, the turkish government sited with the germans. a decision, not smart, as germany was defeated and... the adaman empire subsequently broken apart. it was during this period that the british took control and jews began to immigrate to the region under a political philosophy, zionism. a desire to establish it under a political philosophy called zionism, a desire to establish a jewish homeland. tentions grew between these immigrants and the native population, and the british turn to the newly created united nations to help sort. about the problem they had helped
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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 ermisties was established and jordan took control of the area, known as the west bank or west of the jordan river. then again in 19. 67 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 في in oslo norway in 1993. the result was a plan to divide the west bank into three. areas: a,
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b, and c. civil and political control: area b would be jointly controlled, these areas being mostly areas containing medium. communities, and areas 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 see uh that the way that israel treats them as hostile population, it makes them their lives as difficult as possible. most of the population in areas see palestinian population are rural communities based, the their livelihoods are based on population are rural communities based, the
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their livelihoods are based on agriculture, and so the two things they need more than anything else, land and water, this is this is what they need, the essentials of their lives, and so what 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 see a firing zones, military firing zone, 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 this situation better than othman's.
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في اسره في في بيت يعني غرفتين اللي هم عقدين عقود قديمه كنت انا وامي ابوي متوفي كنت انا وامي وتسع اخوي لي وامي 10 عايشين في الغرففتين هذول وبقوا الاسرائيليين مانعينا نبني غرفه نضيف عليهم او حتى حمام ممنوع احنا قالوا لنا هذول موجودات بيظلن موجودات بدكم تعيشوا فيهم بدكم تعيشوا فيهم روحوا علىاسير على طوباس على نابلس عندنا مشكله المهم هذول بظلين هيش تاكعن وخلص ما لكم شيء فاحنا صمدنا وظلينا هناك بس انا يوم تجوزت انجبرت اني اجي اشتري وابني واقعد هون ما في مجال لانه انا صار عندي عائله يعني فوق اخوتي تسعه صار عندي عائله وولاد اثنين صغار يعني بعد ما صار عندي اولاد اثنين صغار انجبرت اني اشتري واستقر وابني البيت ultimately what is israel wants is it wants it all it wants the whole of the west bank
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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 israeli general called mashadan 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, um, the the largest part the west bank, and so slowly area sea is being ethnically cleansed, there are few and few 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 figures we have suggest there are around 100,000 palestinians in the... of area see, so it's quite clear, it's a very graphic illustration of quite how effective the ethnic cleansing policies have been over over four five decades, they really cleared the area out, think about it, just let us think that those palestinian bidwin families who live in in almost about 52
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communities without any kind of service, it's denied by the incubation to have even a fresh water, they can hear water. running in the bibes under their feet, but they can't drink from it, the electricity wires is crossing over their tent, but they can't, it's just for the zionist 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, but you stayed, why did you decide to stay when many people, many families. انا رايح اموت هون
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العقبه لانه هي الارض هي عن ابا وجددتها هي ارض ابائيي واجدادي. اللي راعه ياسير ما له شيء هوون لكن اللي له ارض الارض هي هي الدم الانسان انا شو بدي ا حسوي فيها ياسير شو اللي فيهات ياسير بدي اتفرج على الشوارع ولا اتفرج على الدور طيب هي ارضي وهي منطقتي وهي عيشتي وهي حياتي يعني شو بدي اروح اطي اعطيير شو بدي اروح اعمل فيها اروح على باريس اسكن في باريس ودش ارضي شو بدي اسوي فيها باريس والله عندي شايف العزيز الشجره هي بتسو باريس ورا اللي فيها بريطانيا هيك is completely representative of the political climate existing today on the west bank, there is a cornerstone of the
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village that makes it quite unique to itself. that uniqueness is first encountered as you drive up the main road into the village. in english, enter with peace and انا اسمي الحج سامي صادق رئيس مجلس قروي العقبه من مواليد 1955 اصبت بثلاث رصاصات من قبل قوات الاحتلال بتاريخ 28/6 عام 71 كان عمري في ذلك التاريخ 16 عاما مما اددى الى اصابتي بشلل نصفي تام ومنذ ذلك التاريخ وانا اعمل من هذا الكرسي المتحرك من اجل السلام العادل وبدون احتلال ان شاء الله
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and and you see the soldiers in the field and hear the tanks, how do you feel as as the mayor of of the village? انا باستمرار باشعر بالحزن لمضايقات قوات الاحتلال لاهالي قريه العقبه هذه الصغيره هذه القريه لم تتعرض للقوات الاسرائيليه حتى بحجر 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 باحراك المراعي بالضغط على المواطن لترحيلهم بحجه ان اراضي قرض العقبه هي منطقه عسكريه مغلقه ومنطقه جيم ولكن اننا نشعر بالالم. even as the mayor works towards finding an equitable solution, ironically, immediately across the road, from's welcome sign is the home of akmed hamden, his house, his under
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demolition orders and he and his family go to sleep each evening with fears of waking to the sounds of tanks and military buldozers coming up the road to level his home. سيدي يعني سيدي شراها وابوي طبعا من بعده ا وريث وريث له وبعدها جيت انا يعني هي الارض على زمان اجدادي واسم الطابو هحد هسا الطابوا في اسم سيدي حسين الجابر جابر يعني ارض ممتلكه من من سنين يعني سيدي الله يرحمه ساريخ تاريخ ميلاد سيدي سنه 1900 بجوزه 23 24 سيدي ولد سنه 1983 20 24 وهي الارض اجا هو شرراها طابه يعني خطوه
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من المحكمه بطرق قانونيه وراك طابه يعني انا لما تكون عندي في اوراك طابه وثبت ثبوتيات في الارض فين المشكله يعني i think what the اسرائيلي wants or what the ship of this state which is called اسرائل and maybe other groups in this area they won't. 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 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,
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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 an area as a firing zone areas 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. do what it want, what 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 ou in our military maneuvers, so you have to move out, but of course it's all a pretext for getting palestinians out off their land and out of their homes, لا نعلم لماذا الرد الاسرائي
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علينا على طلبنا باننا نرغب بسلام عادل. وشامل بدون احتلال اننا نرغب ان نعيش على اراضيناا بسلام من اجل ان تن ننقل هذه العينه هذا النموذج الى القرى والمدن الاخرى ولكن جواب القوات الاسرائيليه تدمير المنازل تدمير شارع السلام حرمان المواطنين من الخدمات حرما من الميه حتى هذه اللحظه يضغطون علينا لرح من اجل ترحيلنا بالاضينا هذه مملوكه النا بالطابه وارضنا مملوكه للمواطنين بالطابه ونحن عايشين فيها قبل الاحتلال ارااضي منازل مبنيه من سنه 1930 عقود قديمه ولكن الاسرائيليين يرغبون بالاستمرار بانهم بيقوما بمضايقه وتنكيد الحياه على هؤلاء الاطفال والنساء والمواطنين في كربه من اجل ترحيلهم ومصادره اراضيهم بحجه اننا في
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منطقه سي بحجه اننا منطقه تشبه جنوب لبنان بحجه ان قريه العقبه هي منطقه مغلقه ولكن احنا مش مشكلتنا ان قريه العاقبه تشبه لبنان مشكلتنا ان هذه اراضينا محتله واراضينا هي مملوكه النا بالطابه من عزمان اجدادنا in terms of 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 you know, the the international law is fairly fairly clear about what happens here, this is palestinian land, it's part of, you know, 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,
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it's not killer or white picture. and i hope it will not be more black because what's going on in the jordan valley is kind of inthenic 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 palestinian community replacing them with new. kind of people, which is jewish community, and of course this is more than ethenic cleansing, what's going on in the jordan valley is kind of stealing the palestinian resources, that's mean is stealing the future of the palestinian a new
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generation and it will not be acceptable at all. يسرعني ويسعدني ان اقف بين اياديكم في هذه اللحظات المباركه لنحتفل بعده مناسبات عزيزه على قلوب شعب الفلسطيني وهذه المناسبات هي يوم الارض ذكرى معركه الكرامه يوم الام، يوم المراه العالمي، يوم الطفل وجديدا يوم الغابات العالميه وفي هذا الشهر من كل عام نحتفل بهذه المناسبات لتجديد العمل الجاد للحفاظ على ارضنا
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وحمايتها من المصادره والتهويد من قبل قوات الاحتلال. ان اخوانكم في هذه القريه الصغيره يعملون ليله 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 اصبحت هذه القريه قريه مؤسسات حيث تعمل هذه المؤسسات من خلال اتحاد اتحاد مؤسسات قريه العقبه وهي مجلس قروي العقبه جمعيه المراه الريفيه الخيريه جمعيه العقد التعاوليه الزراعيه جمعيه العقب التعاوني لاسكان المهجرين نادي العقبه للوحده والامل بيوم الارض الخالب هذه الذكرى التي نؤكد فيها
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المره في المره باننا اصحاب هذه الارض اننا اصحاب حق وان لا وطن لنا سوى هذا الوطن فلسطين. for people in america who really don't know about the west bank, we really don't know anything at all about the german back. what's the most important thing i should know 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 racist abortied regime in the holy land. yeah. "the future for people in area see, i think is bleak, unless the international community is prepared to actually do something. israel's focuses on area sea, this is the goal, the immediate
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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 can be made impossible, if they're surrounded by tanks and firing ranges, and it's impossible for'. 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 it, لقد زرتوا 11 ولايه, لقد زرتوا 11 ولايه امريكيه عام 2008 وجدت الشعب الامريكي انه شعب طيب يختلف اختلاف كلي عن الحكومه الامريكيه وعن السياسه الخارجيه الامريكييه التي تقوم ب الحكومه الاسرائيليه عسكريا باستمرار الجندي الذي اطلق النار عليه هو جندي امريكي وليس جندي اسرائيلي لان هذا الجندي
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اواعيه وبسطاره وسلاحه وطيارته ودباباته كله من الشعب الامريكي والحكومه الامريكيه ادعو الشعب الامريكي ان يضغط على الحكومه الامريكيه لوقف عمليه دعم اسرائيل عسكريا بل يدعموها سياسييا بل يدعموها من اجل السلام العادل والشامل. واعده الاراضيي الفلسطينيه لاصحابها لا يمكن ان يبقى الظلم مدى الحياه الظلم لا يمكن ان لا يمكن ان ياتي يومما ان يتغير الوضع ولكن قبل ان ياتي الوضع ويكون الشعب الفلسطيني قويا اطلب من الشعب الامريكي ان يكون شعب محترم لدى الشعب الفلسطيني الشعب الاسرائي الفلسطيني غاضب جدا الشعب الامريكي الى انه الشعب الامريكي يدعم حكومته التي اييه support state or the main
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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, 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 tax payers, they're subsidizing this process of ethnic cleansing, it's being done in their name, and because of that there's a 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 in his read sniper. on may 11th, 2022, the israelis meant to get across a clear message, that they don't want any narrative other than their own and the decades old occupation of palestinian lands and their aggression. it wasn't the first time israelis 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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11 kg 260. or they were born in this country or they were born in the four corners of this globe, more than half of my life i spent at this
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stage in islands. the headlines this hour 33 palestiny prisoners and 11 israeli captives are released in the fourth phase of a swap deal after israel and hamas agree to extend the temporary truths in gaza. the palestinian children recently believed. from israely jails in a swap deal with hamas, say that they were severely beaten and insulted by the regime's prison guards, and israeli forces killed more palestinians in the occupied west bank, pushing the death doll from the bahim's raids since early october to 2030 for 230.