he had been convicted of the killing party say they're close to solving it. now as palestinians strive for statehood at the u.n. people living in hebron struggle to hold on to their homes here's part one of our special report from the west bank. robber on our bureau. there are five hundred of them surrounded by a hundred and twenty thousand very very hostile most of. the settlers in hebron illegally being there. what's wrong with living room why is that

illegal this is our land and the arabs know that they have made. this is a holy city and we're going to stay there. but. there's no. more than. because you know when you could really. cool. and say raise the expression. this is really be the place for you.

since the settlers arrived in one thousand nine hundred two we have lived on opposite sides of the road the second one and once we could drive up and park in front of the house here and now only the settlers can i always have to have a plan to avoid being shot out or having stones thrown out of the because i you.

know boy there was no way i scream here just the raining supposedly the city put these up to protect us from the settlers and sometimes our house is surrounded by y. screens and the settlers now through smallest stones that get through or destroyed a screen with a why are some hottest of luck is your boss. stay out of this little close the door to definitely not closing the door and it is getting the cage then i think you want to stay inside the seven closed the door get the camera out of here oh yes call the police turn the camera off it's early in the morning what you want from us to me. is. being a pioneer like like in the beginning of the state of israel there are different types of swamps that people have to deal with and then there were swamps and malaria. now there are there are security problems and people who

question our rights to living here and by living here we were stating a fact and that the fact is is that the hub is the heart of the jewish country and it's where it all began and we just want to have natural jewish life here. oh oh. oh. oh oh i. was. sure he was trying to come home kill kill him.

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh yeah and say it was clear if. you want to one of these lines one of the you would talk to jeff it's not mineral. one of the year. zero. zero one zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero soldiers told you my boy wants to come hell or they won't catch him don't you see what he's doing. that's if he loves you he's here to indicate to the boys below i want to get the only one out of this is today in this situation in . israel and there are many many questions why are we here or may we give anything to our enemies and we are in the middle of a war even if we are not saying it aloud we. and i think this is

a phone there are not questions the only answers we hear because of our petri ox that. the god promised them this is the land belongs to us. oh no. you can say this is the essence the hard core of the occupation because there are seven of those living inside the me because the center of a palestinian city and you put a scene is there and they are very extreme and there is the army to protecting them and protecting this for the scene and against a set of those so you have old elements for greek drama you know this is the essence of the occupation of iraq and. we are living in a liberal democracy with a free press and all of the other things that we take for granted in a democracy and yet the reality in the occupied territories is very very different and surprisingly in spite of the free press in spite of the fact that you have

hundreds of journalists covering the situation it remains the case that the israeli public really doesn't know what is taking place in the occupied territories and i think they don't know because they choose not to know. there was a war you know nineteen. forty eight. a very long war and a cord war in which gained seventy eight percent of the country off by this time as it existed before. there was another war in sixty seven. got the stuff by the side and the moment this war was finished and the saudis. to its we had to call cuts. all the natural as. desire. by some people. do

and next it to. and after a few weeks in the few months passed by and we suddenly saw it as no pressure at all on is to give back this debt it overseas then slowly some people have said why not why should we get and put all settlements debt the idea was to annex these territories where our days of settlement idea is to annex the obstacle is that. there's the palestinian people living. then the question arises how do you annex all just have it always risks short of a million or two million arabs palestinians. and tell some people who say just take a half million palestinians and push them all to fatah side as we did to half the palestinian people in nine hundred forty eight so it just all this at left the

extreme set left at the most extreme out of. there because the israeli soldiers put this on our necks because the settlers were throwing stuff it was good little to protect as well so now instead of chucking stone see through filthy water and other stuff that passes through the net in the back of the hemi and hebrew is fully the only city in the west bank and gaza duckie by personal territory settlement that. implanted at the heart of the city and we need the result of that is the slow death of the posts in the population center for the benefit of the expression of these sentiments you can see this as a trend since two thousand since the beginning of the recent the father with the closures of all the entry points into the old city which have since two thousand is

was areas where no pulsing in vehicle movement is allowed another area where else and these are not allowed to go through and no presence of palestinians is allowed and then you have closed shops. you can't pass fail you can't go freely to your hospital to your home can't go feed it to another village another city you can't go to your university. so this was a supermarket this was a photography studio and the shops used to be open and they're living here i see and then four hundred settlers came to live here and they shut the whole town down suckle to let it kind. of a little bit that she. didn't

haze the ribbon cutting back to the jewish roots the first your city we know that abraham and isaac can and they're back and they can live by him and they called the jewish tradition even i haven't even buried him. bringing up a jewish family in the place of the jewish roots. the basis of the jewish people that god. was was and i don't have. any i country in the world it would be defined as fascists if not for us. bunch of five hundred also people whose aim in life is to die for all out i don't have sixty thousand palestinians home to consider as strange as.

these people who've come. so that you know forty or fifty years ago your. consider the inhabitants of taiwan who've been deaf or five five thousand is a stranger was. was i believe it's in point five point to come and see what's going on here and not just. i had the impression from the news because the news is very slanted and when people come they shout that this is a place where people can walk around and visit and feel normal and then it's not what. what they see on the news were they think it's just a military. i think you know a lot of soldiers come here in the beginning they think you know. and this is this is you know like an army base and then they realize that this is not an army base

this is a place where jewish people. i remember in the year two thousand two thousand and one and two thousand and two when three d. hold fifty thousand inhabitants of the old city of hebron where on the fifth one hundred these in the year that lasted close to three years this caused palestinians to leave. the old city outside. i. i i i. i served in hebron in two different period of time a team first as a soldier and then as two thousand and one till middles two thousand and two was done i came back as a commander in march two thousand and three two or three december and the first two

three weeks of we came to hebron we went down to the city you all shot. you know you're this and you're sent to wields shops and doors from thomas to me and cells as you see sterilized streets where palestinians are forbidden to walk and only jews are allowed to walk here you have to for school for you for all time and veils isn't a daily basis you go in locked in the streets and you find yourself in front of the graffiti is that probably in germany sounds you know it sounds familiar better than to us such as arabs to the gas chambers guys they are observes outlaws the stars of david the neighbor in the middle and there was a group of michael platoon in the beginning thought refused to serve and have them we were shot and then believe what's going on you know you come to a place that you have two sets of law by definition that the orders are that you have to protect the settlers and if you see them attacking palestinians you're not

allowed to arrest them of course there are many medical or people law being sent there and come back from the. wolf hate that against the setlist because acetyl about this middle of people is so obsessed with them medically is the kind of. person. detachment whose job it was to obey and serve to settle us but these are really all we have been interest to date it for many years now by the set less and. everyone is just. a part of the settlement the settlement is closed the connect that.

the security presence in her own is heavy or unfortunately there are people who are trying to kill us many of the terrorists that wander around trying to blow themselves up anywhere from their share of up to haifa have have come out of court room and the presence the military presence here is to protect us but it's also to try to weed out these terrorists and sue to it that they don't just tell us the from blow themselves up. although legally they are there to protect everyone to impose the law on everyone that the actual soldier stationed there understands his job as protecting the settlers and stopping palestinian terror.

ok so we will start probably will be guided by. david whyld there on the left and also fails david is the spokesman for foreign and first of the settlement i have wrong and also as documenting our work. i just offered them to speak with you guys to give their point of view and they refuse because they say they don't cooperate with traitors during the war time like today traitors like me so you will get only one perspective today and i'm sorry for that. i don't call him military you to show all who leads the group is a in any other normal country they would put him on trial for treason and hang him . but unfortunately israel hasn't reached that level yet of of justice. people express their opinions some people are put in jail when they express their

opinions because it's called incitement and whatever he does what he does that's considered to be legitimate however i don't relate to them too much importance if there are many jewish communities or not only jewish communities which understand the importance of her own to the jewish people the significance of cover on the significance of jews living here and people are able to express that support and different ways some pop people come to visit some people send letters some people wish to donate some of their money and i think that that proves without any doubt that people understand the importance of a jewish community here in corona. when we came to her own in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven we didn't occupy a foreign city we came back home and came back to the first george city in the land of israel like you look at the faces of those years of those jews who were killed thank god by god but it was surely one of the last to be sure about. the narrative

of the settlers and their claims starts we are a continuation to the jewish community we live there was deported from nearby them . and that's not the truth of course there are some people who come from families who live there that agree with the system. but there are lots of people who come from the jewish community who have brown who are against you know fundamentally against the settlement of the mentally against the idea that six hundred fifty people can you know have all their rights in the back of one hundred sixty six thousand people. usually in jewish holidays or weekends a lot of people coming out of settlers from other people visitors from jerusalem from outside and one of the you know biggest fears of the idea of his that's so

oppressed and sniper will set down near the one of the houses and i will just slot every one of the phrases or walk around the streets so how do you deal with it for sure we can there now days you pose corfield on the palestinians friday morning you divide all the palestinian neighbors around the settlement. you go to search. finished wrong ground take arrested one of the house you like the family room you put observers on go to sleep after three i was wake up it's time for the second round and again that's another aspect of what it was to live here. when they come particular house to ask me to connect all of the family with them in the kitchen all in one room they take off all the clovis the bags the beds all of

that and have in many time they come through the house this is all of the family outside but i see so many cars like that i don't care i remember one one night we state from one o'clock after midnight until four o'clock four o'clock and was laying all our heads. and they said they went to the house and they know nothing of the house. before. i did sixty eight after the six day war and the great. military victory that god gave to us. is really go there ready back then wasn't sure what we can do theories we've liberated sixty seven let you stay the jews move there don't let jews move there i can't tell you how much a loving god is rabbits and we're having our get together they advertise in the joy newspapers because fan base stuff downtown have a park called healthy. and those sort of olympic sized swimming pool and

no great music going to denny's color might but he had a one star hotel windows provide if you pay extra money thirty families registered for the best of a service. in just hotel then he government decided to take him out of there and put them into the mid to the government building which was annoyed. police for class and then there might be plight and barely the military government could not function anymore just down to me to the government building in door private settlement so the government let him take out of. it to a new settlement called chaotic album in one thousand seventy gulden mia came along says i got the solution and that solution is called. here and she built his beautiful beautiful summer with low just mortgages cheap housing olympic sized swimming pool really sold a jacuzzi tennis courts came

a big fascist dominated settlement the center of all fascist and the mention is that. and then to start to fall. back into so slowly a little step of the little step of the step of the step they occupied is part of curve on where you know even in this spot the suddenness of a small minority that was the majority of the on. this was the basis st in hebron met after everybody came here all the farmers people from the neighboring towns out of windsor coolies i know nobody comes in here they have shot everything the while and since the intifada they closed entrance. but the problem we used to go in and out when the settlers could not see

the bay for them doing well that the don't want a coffee so now we're getting in from the back i might climb you know with the neighbors through upstairs and over while the men in them and all these trouble to keep the settlers out of the house and really around the settlers lines that's where they leave the chair and also you know they are the colonists around us in the. wrong stuff and look look that we're surrounded by settlers and soldiers stop and read the boy. i have no doubt that if today another two hundred thousand jews moved into today in some area. a lot of the arabs who were here and pick up and leave you have to throw them out i don't know them i don't know that today are in my favor that i don't know looking for forced explosions very bloody but i have a feeling that if they see masses of masses of people coming over to take their

homes away from them just to settle in the land here a lot of them just leave. any normal human being have a specific set that was a but i you know he'll beyond just point i can i take it to my children can i take it in a war so i'm going to have have to leave basically fees if i had to both live. two weeks ago if i had to both real estate and. to use the main core i am not among those who think that this this beauty in the middle east is a religious one it is a nation at least the one and the main disputers of both land look even at the transfer there was a real transfer for nobody talks about that something about fifteen twenty twenty

five thousand people had to leave their homes it is just because those crazy people. the neighbors until they had to leave.

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