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a disputed border post in the war of the cost of our him by nato troops leaving several people injured up next an insight into why young going middle east conflict now sees israelis turning against one another. i come here because i live in jerusalem and i am in shock and in the rage that. what is happening here. no democracy without freedom to demonstrate. that it's not a break between religion and nationalism. to see this as

a living person together they can be a very volatile and save respects the fight here is the worst possible combination of nationals of the religious none of it. because it is a little better you know we don't even want to hear a jew religious jew calling another joke and not the way they realize that i'm not that you're. not like this is my. son this is my life go back to america criminal.

in one thousand six to seven israel conquered the west bank gaza an arab east jerusalem. that's still today the palestinians live under military strain the control. this is a field for israelis who wants an end to more than forty years of israeli occupation. breaking the silence is a group of ex israeli soldiers served during the second intifada in the occupied territories and today we work to try to expose the reality of occupation back home . we call it breaking his silence because you have to understand that what's going on in the occupied territories is like one of the biggest taboos in israel. people just don't talk about it you don't come back home and see a money loser to tell since we feel this that it just doesn't come over.

that people back home people here in israel have no clue of what's going on but there is there's a secret agreements between society and in the military. we know there's going on there but please don't worry about you know we want to live our life without. without knowing what it takes to have a peaceful life. or here just to talk about what we did as soldiers because we feel this is the this is one of the most important pieces from the puzzle that is missing in a discussion and debate here in this area. and we try to talk about the small stories that make the big problems and make big picture try to talk about what does

it mean occupation how does a cloak on a daily basis. how do you do it as an occupier forty years of occupation according to the u.n. there are today more than five hundred checkpoints and obstacles in the west bank where the straightest soldiers control and hinder palestinians the biggest checkpoints located between ramallah and east jerusalem on occupied land. the checkpoint is called. the i a group of israeli women and it is there nobody knows what's going

on so we decided to create a group that's going through the checkpoints and observes in the reports that's why the observing eye is part of our local even our. bad faith the outpost will keep pace in. our presence here is a clear statement that in the post occupation it's a statement for the army for the police for the border collies play anybody and for the palestinians to know that they are people actively opposing the occupation. we'll be out is that this little dialysis she needs to eliseus three times a week or do you understand it's three times a week there is nothing to do if the boy sick of it has got to shards of that hospital it's every time the same problem with getting a child to hospital it's counts go on like this. why do they do this.

they're doing it on purpose they won't let anyone in. your life everybody here is ill and those that aren't soon will be here yes it's true. that. the number only visual earlier year only remarkable. and you can see how the they asked all the time finding all the ways how to control what's going on more and more so this kalandia checkpoint sees something like four thousand people it was built for lifting one thousand people so first of all this. tremendous stress in terms of people who go to work every single day and have to stand there for two hours. and.

it's making it difficult for palestinians who live in this area who are so-called to live for and visit. the other group of people walk around through the trip for a parish in years who have permits to go to either go through to work or to go through the hospitals the dog. to go to crazy. to visit sick or relatives who go through a game. to go to get. you if the queue at the checkpoint to be able to go to the office which is sealed.

the deal. here.

in addition to checkpoints some obstacles israel has built so-called settlements in the west bank and in east jerusalem according to the u.n. today more than half a million israelis living on occupied land the settlements are all be legal according to the national. palestinian farmers can tax us less and less of their labs as the settlements expand frequently there's violence when soldiers are sutlers stop the farmers from cultivating their land. rabbi eric asher mum helps the palestinian farmer. this is. something you all have to leave i am asking you we do not have time for the first red line please leaves it and go down. here everything here is a closed military zone where here there how many meters from here everywhere not

able even. to believe that the one of the most basic commandments do is what we read in the very first verses of the bible is that all human beings are created. in god's image and it doesn't say just. rich or poor and it's very it's a point of saying both men and women if we really believe that if you are going to internalize it then we have to honor and protect the human rights of every human being including calls that. eric asher months into protection of the bible is rare in israel. the palestinian olive trees are standing on the biblical land and on the political hills this land is got slammed promised to the jewish people according to the settlers. and better yesterday they came when i got back here at four pm so they came and stole the letter i stole the black covers like

those. they stole the. they still cutters and knives in the all of us over there did you see the all it. could go. to the sellers do this yes the sudras store all of us and did this i have been away for three days they stole everything they did this they still covers and tools and did this with the all of us. so when you came back everything was gone. yes they were thieves how me and i. were. for several years rabbi eric sherman was protecting the palestinian farmers when they were being harassed or attacked by religious jewish settlers.

posted. that's what you're doing giving me the finger but it was lifting his hands to fight. not yet for the rest and now the rest of him out there is. nothing like i do you and i are giving the finger to the jew should have his hand cut off you know now we've gone completely crazy. about coming here to guard the arabs. but. how often i've heard soldiers say well the high court is there we're here our presence here is what's essential not only sometimes some as we actually are as human shields. physically to stand between palestinian people threatening them and sometimes it's important we're here to keep the army on us to make sure they're doing with this was to be doing. the settlers are protected by israeli

soldiers and the soldiers themselves are sometimes sutlers. there's a set up here to meet you did you walk and comes down and when anyone tries to work there he tries to stop them but this time barely said the army. the strategy for the settlers is to take over hill off the hill of the west bank. they do it by building small outposts and then expanding downhill closer to the palestinian farmers. legally they can't cross this line of. vision. i would also like to see this talk him into his mission they came up with this line one year ago. they tried the same trick last year but in the end the farmers work here. if you don't like it take your questions to the

coordination office. simply this attempt to. slowly slowly take over another doom here another doom here from their point of view this is revealing the land of israel in any means possible . piece by piece. we're trying in some way to help how things have gone and even get some other lands back. we always go by the queues of the palestinians the army wants control they want to go anywhere without a permit and. you have to make a choice is the best way to hold on to your lives and we back you whatever you do. he has always. treated. that is

a couple of the left and right but i look at them and. they acknowledge this was his land and now they said we don't want you to work here today though because if they do something to come and shoot you. there's a good chance that we will win or maybe it'll be easier to finish if there's no intention here another day is because. in the west bank this rail has built the barrier a wall made out of fences and concrete it is part of israel's defense it protects settlements and it ties them closer to israel. the barrier or the wall is mainly built on occupied land in breach of international law according to the international court of justice. for the

palestinians in the west bank the wall results in further land loss to israeli settlers. but there are israelis helping the palestinians to resist the construction of the wall which we're doing here right now is trying to block the last united trying to structure their protection to give them a vision for more someone listening at the cost of the war right now there's about be about four or five kilometers into the way the bank i'll try to fish for the record i reckon i stored in the international court of justice in the hague has ruled that dispatch to fish the construction of fish barrier is ego but if joe continues and continues doing it right now interviewed called an alien twenty five hundred dunam he's about to be confiscated from the village. a large public house right. the story short.

i. now know that not jonathan polak has participated and direct actions on demonstrations for many years several times a week thirty years so he has been arrested and physically injured by israeli soldiers i i i i. was such a dog that six people said it was for. the title we are right about the but it's

a very big part of my life and. you know and you have to go further fighting but i live here and i'm. you know my life pretty much devolves around political activists in a so obviously the political situation affects my life and my future and i thought . i. was two people have been killed here due to military violence and over there from here it's complete keyed up if you get the feeling i come from was i didn't have to be guided you just can't just take a good shot a confession to the stampeders shouted never delish me on meet me at steve demonstrations to disrupt i think it was a military operation with military. and if it should people are going to be sure here.

that. demonstrations against the wall also turned violent they quickly erupt with stone throwing and gunfire it is mostly the protesters who are seriously injured sometimes protesters it's killed. they believe the it's my duty as an israeli public company or it can keep on coming and it's being done in in our name . we can we agree with it or not you know a moral obligation if you come here and chant we do people actually enough to say to oppose something your government is doing when such crimes are being committed i

expect people and i think it's our duty to come here because of an attribute this to people like me are the good just. because you didn't want them there are soldiers over there you'll be surrounded not just move boys come to the east do not go west around. the boys get back here. are we going away just go straight to the round of the ship. come. on this is just. that simple are we out of rocks. is everything quiet here.

no. i think. that they are not a fellow you just know ok i must have mixed up with someone else. what organization are you from. checkpoint watch so you don't want any more checkpoints . with no but less checkpoints themselves they're not enough to have this stage where it against checkpoints and we're here sort of by the

checkpoints if. you could who are checkpoints it costed millions of so you want something respectable to let everybody in who are a checkpoint cost fifteen millions out of our pockets and then they closed it there's a group does no matter here we have the entrance to the notary it should be at the entrance on israel's border not here so write a letter notice checkpoints we have already done that let me have a nice day i mean people like you to keep camp with tell him to get in line one by one closer to the wall. come up. line up one by one. stick close to the wall.

and. i've been coming to kalandia for seven years so when it comes to ramadan it's important for me to know what's going on so although it's not even my shift done i decided to come and have a look the problem is that when you meet the individual people with the individual problems your heart just breaks you know that for some stupid reason that you didn't bring your origin or birth certificate for your sixteen year old daughter but only a photocopy. it's crazy you know it's not only crazy it's very painful to think that there are so many rules and that if you don't fit into the category then

nothing out. of the sleeve job will be acquitted of them out of course she will be able to pray just go over there and they will check everything in the computer. and the computer. can download moment people to us trying their damndest you know to get into jerusalem because it's such a holy place and it's so important the army and the authorities behave as if they didn't know. treat them as naughty people. not obeying the rules ignoring the ramadan karim. kawar just that's what we are. learning and. they're looking at us now the whole world has been watching us so low lifes. i you from jerusalem the city yes i'm from jerusalem do you have a permit no more i you know clady you know she's twenty five years

old you cannot see. that i have to do you have a poet is there i don't need them and all in all the woman you know you're not an old woman. she's forty five years. ok you're forty five years old. you know life must have been hard for her. we're not allowed to do and pretty much nothing prevents us from praying. it's the feeling of danger not you from going up to my head moving next to the wall have all of you. then why. other do you mean by their standards one by one go back on my own i'm going to i don't. run. her. son of.

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