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 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, هذا it's not, and this is our story.

the jordan valley is the east part of the occupied westbank, it's the only ge, 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 uh nist 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, of 2,000 people lived in this community. today, only scattered families remain. وجده هنجه ت

نوصل ل عثمان بن عفان دوله عثمانيه اللي حكمت هي البلد فوق 400 سنه هلا ايش مش ساكنين في العكبه 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 علىبناتنا خاف على راح يجي وبعدين هناكونا ممنوع نبني بيت ممنوع area s 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, of we have to go back to the year 1453. this was the point in history where the churks conquered the ancient city of constant. على

antinopol, 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 alwa residents settled. then, during the first world war, the turkish government sided with of the germans. a decision, 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. tentions 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 armistice 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 oslo 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 palestinian 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 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

palestinian population are rural communities based, the the 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 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 see of 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 example is the situation better than othman spay. growing up in alaba, he was forced to move to the neighboring area b town of tayasir. he now commutes back to each day to supervise production in the community's organic deco, انا كنت عايش في اسره في بيتي

يعني غرفتين. عقدين، عقود قديمه. كنت انا وامي ابوي متوفي. كنت انا وامي وتسعه اخوي لي تسعه وامي 10 عايشين في الغرففتين هذول وباكل السرائيليين مانعيننا نبني غرفه نظيف عليهم او حتى حمام ممنوع احنا قالوا لنا هذول موجودات بيظلن موجودات بدكم تعيشوا فيهم بدكم تعيشوا فيهم روحوا على تياسير على طوباس على نابلس عندنا مشكله المهم هذول بيظلين هيكعن وخلص ما لكم شيء هون فاحنا 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 يعني بعد ما صار عندي اولاد اثنين صغار انجبرت اني اشتري واستقر وابني ببيت. wants is it wants it all, it wants the whole

the west bank. the question is whether it can get away with doing that and it certainly can't get away doing it in one fell swoop, so what it's doing is what famous israeli general called mashadin. 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 of the west bank, and so slowly area c 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 thousand palestinians in the whole 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 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 if fresh water, they can hear water running in the bibes under their feet, but they can't drink from it, the electricity weers 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 alaqaba, but you stayed. why did you decide to stay when many people, many families have

had to move away? اموت هون في العقبه لانه هي الارض هي عن ابا وجد تورثها. ارض ابائي واجدادي اللي رعت ياسير ما له شيء هون لكن اللي له ارض الارض هي هي الدم ال الانسان انا شو بدي اروح اسوي فيهات ياسير شو اللي فيهات ياسير بدي اتفرج على الشوارع ولا اتفرج على الدور طيب هي ارضي وهي منطقتي وهي عيشتي وهي حياتي يعني شو شو بدي اروح ا اعت ياسر 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 اللي فيها while el akaba is completely representative of the political

climate existing today on the west bank, there is a cornerstone of the village that 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 ادى الى اصابتي بشلل نصفي تام ومنذ ذلك التاريخ وانا اعمل من هذا الكرسي المتحرك من اجل السلام العادل وبدون احتلال ان شاء الله تعالى when when you hear the jets

and and you see the soldiers in the field and hear the tanks, how do you باستمر باشعر بالحزن لمضيقات قوات الاحتلال لاهالي قريه العقبه هذه الصغيره هذه القريه لم تتعرض لقوات 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 باحراق المراعي بالضغط على المواطن لترحيلهم بحجه ان اراضي قرض العقبه هي منطقه عسكريه مغلقه ومنطقه جيم ولكن اننا نشعر بالالمm even as the mayor works towards finding an equitable solution ironical immediately across the road from welcome sign is the home

of akmed hamden, his house is 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. من ايام زمان على زمان سيدي على زمان سيدي يعني سيدي شراها وابوو. طبعا من بعده و وريث وريث له وبعدها جيت انا يعني هي الارض على زمان اجدادي واسم الطابه لحد هسه الطابوا في اسم سيدي حسين الجابر جابر يعني ارض ممتلكه من من سنين يعني سيدي الله يرحمه سراخ تاريخ ميلاد سيدي سنه 1900 بجزه 23 24 سيدي ولد سنه 1923 24 وهي

الارض اجا هو شرراها خطابه يعني خطوب من المحكمه بطرق قانونيه اوراك طابه يعني انا لما تكون عندي في اوراك طابه وثبوت و ثبوتيات في الارض ففي وين المشكله يعني state which is called israel and maybe other uh 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 israel leadership, they want to show the european and the international community that they are the ones 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 decide. to declare an area as a 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 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 off their land and out of their homes. طلبنا باننا نرغب بسلام عادل

وشامل بدون احتلال اننا نرغب ان نعيش على اراضينا بسلام من اجل ان تن ننقل هذه العينه النموذج الى القرى والمدن الاخرى ولكن جواب القوات الاسرائيليه تدمير المنازل تدمير شارع السلام حرمان المواطنين من الخدمات حرما من المي حتى هذه اللحظه يضغطون علينا لرح من اجل ترحيلنا بالرا منها اراضينا هذه مملوكه لنا بالطابه وارضنا مملوكه للمواطنين بالطابه. ونحن عايشين فيها قبل الاحتلال ويوجد اراضي 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

ومصارده اراضيهم بحجه اننا في منطقه سي بحجه اننا في منطقه تشبه جنوب لبنان. بحجه ان قريه العقبه هي منطقه عسكريه مغلقه ولكن احنا مش مشكلتنا ان قريه العقبه وجبه تشبه لبنان مشكلتنا ان هذه اراضينا محتله واراضينا هي مملوكه النا 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 you know the the international law is fairly fairly clear about what happens here, that this is palestinian land, it's part of you, 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 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's 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. placing 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... 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 المصادره وال 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 الاراضيي وبناء المؤسسات حيث اسبح هذه القريه قريه مؤسسات حيث تعمل هذه المؤسسات من خلال اتحاد اتحاد مؤسسات قريه العقبه وهي مجلس قروي العقبه جمعيه المراه الريفيه الخيريه جمعيه العقبه التعاونيه الزراعيه، جمعيه العقبه التعاونيه لاسكان المؤجرين، نادي العقبه للواحد والامل. ليوم

الارض الخالب. هذه الذكرى التتي نؤكد فيها المره طلوا المرهه باننا اصحاب هذه الارض اننا اصحاب حق، وان لا وطن لنا سوى هذا ال for people in america who really don't know about the west bank, we really don't know anything at all about the george, 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 apart tide. regime in the holy land. you know, the future for people in area see, 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. palestinians 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, زرتوا 11 ولايه عام 2008 وجدت الشعب الامريكي انه شعب طيب يختلف اختلاف كلي عن الحكومه الامريكيه و السياسيه الخارجيه الامريكيه التي تقوم بدعم الحكومه الاسرائيليه عسكريا باستمرار الجندي الذي اطلق النار عليه هو جندي امريكي وليس جندي اسرائيلي لان هذا الجندي 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 عموها من اجل السلام العادل والشامل واعاده الاراضي 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 الا انه الشعب الامريكي يدعم حكمته تدعم اسرائيل التي سيطرت على اراضينا كلها عام 67. 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. now 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.

מקדייש את הפיצוץ הזה לבת שלי הנסיכה אליה למודדת היום טיפת שנתיים תתגעגע תחנות אקראי כאן 10 שלנו בעוד 10 9 8 7

elencare quali sono i diritti dei palestinesi per sapere i palestinesi hanno diritto ad un paese loro sovrano non ce l'hanno, hanno diritto ad utilizzare una moneta loro, non ce l'hanno, hanno diritto a uscire da gaza, non ce l'hanno, hanno diritto a non vedere occupate le loro terre in chis giordania, territori che si chiamano territori occupati dove lì l'aggressore è l'esercito israeliano che dovrebbe starci lì, non ce l'hanno un attimo, un attimo. hanno diritto ad essere

riconosciuti a livello internazionale? sì, non ce l'hanno, hanno diritto vedere rispettate decine di risoluzioni votate dal consiglio di sicurezza delle nazioni unite sì no? perché non vengono rispettate? la mia domanda è come si può convincere oggi un ragazzino di 10 anni a credere in una in una soluzione diplomatica se tutti gli spazi diplomatici nonché gli spazi per fuggire da gaza sono chiusi? come è possibile convincere un bambino palestinese sperare... المجد لممان غالي هذا المجد لممان غالي الله.

tops here on press tv israel resumes as bombing campaign of the gaza strip after a temporary truce with hamos expires air strike. and artillery fire hit several locations throughout the besieg enclave, including gaza city and khan yunis, over dozen palestinians have so far been killed. the palestinian resistance movement hamas releases more captives under a prisoner swap deal with the israeli regime. captives hailed resistance fighters for their good treatment. israel in return free 30, palestinian prisoners including seven women and 23 children.