WATCH | SEIZING THE WEST BANK: EXTREMIST SETTLERS IN POWER

Wed 04 September 2024:

Settlements above the Law, a new film from BBC Eye, investigates extremist Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank amid claims that they are increasingly using violence to seize land and property from Palestinians in the region. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that the area has become increasingly violent since Hamas killed around 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October 2023.

The #BBCEye Investigations team, reveals how these settlers are establishing a new type of illegal settlement known as a “herding outpost”, giving them access to huge areas of land. These and other outposts don’t have government approval and are illegal under Israeli law.

BBC have independently verified the location of 196 outposts established in the occupied West Bank, almost half of them built in the past five years alone. For over six months, the BBC team have been following extremist settlers who have set up herding outposts.

Some have been sanctioned by the UK and US governments for forcing Palestinians from their homes as part of a “campaign of violence and intimidation”. We show the human impact of their actions on the Palestinian communities living on the frontline of their outposts.

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Eyewitnesses give accounts to the BBC of how these extremist settlers have been able to seize more land for illegal outposts, often under the watch of the Israeli security forces.

Elderly couple Ayesha and Nabil told BBC Eye that, just days after the attacks of 7 October 2023, they were driven from their home by an extremist settler who is now internationally sanctioned.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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