Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land

God said to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 'Go on a hilltop Hilltop boy youth and look around you This is the land that I gave you' Then walk Or go on the top of the hill We look around We get to know the place Then we settled on the place We are on the way to Metzad hill a desolate place between Hebron and Bethlehem To access the hill two rules No women, no interviews Reaching the hill we can see a few caravans some youngsters and sheep all settled on Palestinian owned land This is all part of Israel's new strategy to grab Palestinian landDriven by a vision of ‘Greater Israel’ and the belief that they are fulfilling a divine mandate these youngsters follow their leaders blindly

 We dedicate a lot of time to educating the young generation to follow the ideology of redeeming the land of Israel These are a group of racist fascists Who are willing to do anything to impose Jewish supremacy officially Duma is a Palestinian citylocated in the northern West Bank In a hot July night the city became sadly known for one of the worst episodes of settler violence against Palestinians A few years ago in Duma there was a group of hilltop youth settlers who went to attack the village like they do in many other nights And they put fire on one of the houses that was inhabited And the house set on fire and the parents and one of their in the baby son were killed And the other son was rescued aliveBut he lost his family The crime was committed by a group of settlers but only one was sentenced Amram Benu Liao Itamar Ben-Gvir now the minister of national security of Israel was his lawyer Itamar Ben-Gvir was one of the hilltop youth leaders He arranged many many youngsters and educated them to be violentand to attack Palestinians But there is more to this story Months after the Duma attack a video emerged showing Israeli settlers dancing frenetically while stabbing a photo of the murdered baby at a wedding party Itamar Ben-Gvir can be seen smiling in the video from the wedding Outside the courtroom as relatives of the family burned to death, entered Groups of settlers greeted them with the chant "Where's Ali?" Ali's not here Ali's on the grill The settler who was sentenced for burning the family to deathis a member of the Hilltop Youth The Hilltop Youth of the settlers are dangerous, are provocative are hostile, are violent And they have to be contained Their ages usually range from their teens to their 20s Basically, it is the violent part a very violent part of the settler movement The hills of the occupied West Bank are their battleground and price tagging is their calling card They have sworn to sacrifice everything for a land without Palestinians Gangs of extreme settlers are raiding Palestinian communities with complete impunityThis is state sponsored violence This is violence that is done by groups that could be called militias militias of the Israeli apparatus These attacks range from destruction to murder They believe that God promised promised the entire land of Israel from the east side of the Jordan as well to the Jewish people and that we have to exercise our right for these And, if necessary, we can use violence and power and pull them, push them out Everybody knows them as Hilltop YouthWho are they? First of all, if you want to get to know really good to get to know Hilltop Youth you'll have to get to know me Daniella Weiss is a very prominent settler one of the leaders of the settler movement and one of the most extreme leaders of the settler movement I have been involved in building, establishing settlements since the '67 war in 1967, the miraculous war of '67 “Gaza war in the Middle East Israeli forces drives spearheads across the Sinai Peninsula, west to the Suez Canal south to the entrance of the Gulf of Aqababreaking the blockade capturing the West Bank of the Jordan River 2:00 in the afternoon when I heard the alarm telling that we ought to go to the shelters And then I understood it was the word of God telling his people, myself as part of the Jewish nation, that We haven't done enough for redeeming the land of Israel What if politicians decide that you should leave No chance whatsoever that we will leave here If it costs us our life it will cost us our life, and no chance I mean, if the state says ...They'll have to kill us We have built here 250 new Jewish communities In these communities, there live 500,000 Jews half a million Jews And more coming all the time And in the eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem another 350,000 Jews So we are getting closer to the 1 million We will be 2 million here No chance whatsoever for establishing a Palestinian state And it sums up the story we are going to tell you The war on Gaza has been raging for months Relentless devastatingBrutal But the Israeli war on Palestinians has a second front equally relentless equally violent There is a small, less known war that is being waged in the West Bank as well and not only in Gaza It is lost to the international and domestic public But what we've seen happening an unfolding in the West Bank is really horrendous So not only now the settlers are being violent against the Palestinians, but they do it with uniforms and guns from the army They use the power they have in IDF uniform using IDF weaponsto further their ideological goals And that means going into villages very aggressively questioning people, threatening people making it very clear that if you don't move within a certain amount of time, we're going to we're going to force you to. We're going to harm you in some kind of way We spent 22 days in the occupied West Bank meeting the settlers and their leaders We saw Israel's new weapons and strategies to force Palestinians to leave their land And we also discovered its surprising allies The occupied West Bank is a dangerous labyrinth Yeah Let's see if it's soldiers or settlers or settlers little soldiers We need the settlers trust if we want to move around we try our luck here in the Israeli parliament where many settler leaders hold seats We came to meet him And what does he think about settlersviolence against Palestinians? But there's more to his story than he's revealing Zvi Sukkot is an extreme right-wing Hilltop Youth who became a parliament member which is crazy And unfortunately, and shamefully he is now a member of the Israeli parliament But it's like a radical violent person taking part in intimidation of Palestinians This is a natural product of the alliance between Bibi Netanyahu and the messianic groups Next day he invites us to meet him in the settlement where he lives built in Palestinian stolen landYitzhar was and remains one of the most violent settlements in the West Bank a bastion of messianic Zionism in its most extreme form flags and posters lining the road to Yitzhar proudly proclaim the Zionist presence in the occupied West Bank There are several Palestinian villages just beside the road a step away from Yitzhar They are as quiet as ghost towns and there is a reason for that The constant attacks coming from Yitzhar The Israeli army is here everywhere protecting the settlers He is waiting for us The Israeli settlers plan to seize more landbeyond the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza aiming to restore what they claim are the biblical borders of Israel The borders of the Jewish state are the borders that were promised by God to Abraham from the Euphrates to the Nile But it includes parts of some (countries) From Syria, from, of course many, many countries We have our Bible This is the only document that matters We do want to try to do it as much as possible, hand in hand with the nations of the world But when the nations are too tough with us then we do havesome liberal measures we live by Just down the hill from the Yitzhar settlement is Huwara a target of constant attacks from the settlers Palestinian media said some 35 homes and 90 cars were torched by some 400 settlers Hundreds of Israeli settlers attacked the city setting cars and homes on fire and killing a Palestinian man A top Israeli official has called for the Palestinian village of Huwara to be wiped out or erased Some of the boys came to the town of Huwara and they burned some cars and some shopsBut on the edge of the village They didn't even wander They didn't even slap the face They just wanted to react So, if this is to be condemned I think not We're near Immanuel settlement at the northern end of the occupied West Bank Our destination is a place that Israel is hiding from the public eye This is in the middle of nowhere See, I promised to bring you to the middle of nowhere where no one else even knows this exists Yeah What we're about to see is the most successful land grab strategy since the 1967 warThis is an outpost Israel's way to bypass international law These are what's called outposts some of them are really just a caravan on a hill or little tents or something like that But some of them just like regular settlement One family and a few youngsters they take a hilltop and they start to harass the Palestinians all around it They usually would grow some flocks, sheep or whateverto go out to the fields and to violently to push away the Palestinians from their farmland It's not just a few crazy settlers on a hilltop It's very much with the support of the State of Israel with taking entire areas of the West Bank and making sure that they can't become possibly part of a future Palestinian state Settlements are considered illegal under international law but legal under Israeli law Outposts, however, are illegal even under Israeli law Yet the state provides them with water, electricity and securityOur approach as the military is the moment we have Israelis, Israeli citizens Jewish settlers, right? We have to protect every settlement, outpost in every crazy place The way we make land to become state land is a very, very I would say ugly way Not honest We make it harder for the Palestinians to cultivate their land, and then the land is not cultivatedso we can declare it state land If Prime Minister Netanyahu calls me now and says, 'Daniella we need to establish now a new outpost on a strategic hill Are you ready to go? I'm always ready to go to establish a new hill Not only am I ready it's my constant dream From the northern end of the occupied West Bank to its southern hills we are moving to the settlement of Bat Ayinor to be more exact to a place on the outskirts of the settlement hidden from public view But in order to get there we need to meet him first Meir Even Tov one of Hilltop Youth leaders in this area Is this the police? No, it's the security of the organization of this village What is happening down the hillthat they don't want us to film? We were able to get visual evidence with the help of a hidden camera And this is what they don't want us to film Settlers receiving military training to terrorize the Palestinians in the surrounding area Is he ready, for example, to kill? To access this placewe had to accept some rules One of them not to film the structure that is being built down the hill by the settlers However we were able to film it from a distance The question is what are they building? And so we give it a try So the reason is for security, yes? Or what is it? This is for security and for the attack It's The village he refers to is Surif a Palestinian village And this is what he talks about Israeli settlers go down to the village at night to insult and harass Palestinians to make surethey will leave their land Is this police helicopter or military?When you see the images of Gaza how do you feel? The only thing that can save us it's to understand that this is our destiny This is a divine war It's how you win a war you conquer the land of the enemy or you kill the enemy. This is how you win the war My name is Nati Rom I'm a pioneer I established a few of the communities here And I'm a lawyer A 'pioneer' is what usually people call settlers Exactly The first time we met Nati Rom chose the place The ancient city of Shiloh in the occupied West BankHis choice was not accidental Listen, we are in a historical place We are here in Shiloh, 369 years This was the first capital of Israel Everywhere you dig here you'll find historic coins from the Second Temple time from the First Temple time So of course there is no such a thing called Palestine Nati Rom is a prominent figure in Hasbara The Israeli public diplomacy strategy used to control the narrative and information manipulation He travels around the world to spread the settlers message He brings groups of tourists from abroad to promotea favorable view of the settlements Nati Rom is also a lawyer Another person that we interviewed is your colleague, Nati Rom Yeah Colleague? Yes, he's a lawyer And that is all that is or shared by us Most of his clients are members of the Hilltop Youth Law enforcement on settlers to the degree that it happens is theater, is cosmetics So when Nati Rom needs to go to court that is only because the government has to be able to say we're doing something about it But without a real intention to do something about itAnd that is why most of his clients end up with nothing not even a slap on the wrist The pioneers, the what you call the youth of the hilltops are good people who follow the path of the Torah, of the Bible and want to live here in peace A few days after this interview and after he cleared us we were finally invited to his settlement Esh Kodesh What they call the heartland of Israel is in fact built on privately owned Palestinian land Do you remember Duma? Do you remember the Palestinian family burned to death by settlers?The attackers came from this area and they continue to descend the hill to attack Duma I just want to explain to you that in the beginning It was only this bus for the first two, three years So it's written in the prophecies We shall continue to the mountains of Samaria And here we are in the mountains When we started nobody even believed we have a chance to do something with it This is an amazing part of the sign of the redemption of the prophecies and millions, more than millions all over the world believe in those propheciesand want to be a part of it As much of the vineyard is suffering, the fruits and the wine is better So hopefully 'Hashem' (God) will redeem us that we will be better without suffering too much God help us! Listen, we have promise from Hashem in the prophecies that the third redemption will be the eternal one It's not again to go in back So hopefully we are now in the eternal one If you have to leave this land will you fight back? But I will fight with everything I can to stop this decision The stupid decision will bring more bloodMore people will be killed because of those stupid decisions He came to visit the soldiers guarding the hill overlooking Duma It is clear who is in charge Among the soldiers on this hill is a British citizen But you have to be Israeli to serve in the army, no? You do and don'tThere's a thing called lone soldiers, in which people come from abroad and can be soldiers in the Israeli army It's like the French Foreign Legion Nati Rom unaware of being recorded, explains to soldiers how he convinces tourists to support settlers Thank you so much Yehuda Shimon is one of the settler leaders in the northern part of the occupied West Bank There is no settlers There is communities and there is a people They just live like everybodyevery place in the world Do you see a Arab village or Arab city? There is a fence around? No. Why? The Arabs know everything go And you know what? It's not just terror This is a life way That's the way they live They kill all the time If there is no Jewish Okay, let's kill each other Okay? Okay? But we want to kill someone Havat Gilad the settlement where he lives is part of a well-planned occupation Building settlements in specific places which fragment areas of the West Bank so that it's impossible for Palestiniansto have some kind of contiguity and using that contiguity to build up what might one day be a state You must know something Every Arab village they are not legal here We must kill them I couldn't see a way that we could keep them alive Deeply religious, the settlers follow the commandments to the letter My name is Joshua Mordechai Schmidt You are a rabbi? Yes The Torah says in the mitzvah that we must be here and build this place I think that they should go EgyptJordan Lebanon Iran Sudan Qatar A lot of countries Why, why, why, why they stuck in Israel? Some of them came from Egypt returned to Egypt Some of them are friends of Erdogan will go Some will go to Britain Some will go to North America South America, Indonesia which is the biggest Islam But not here Here they prove to be impossible in the in the Middle East.We are moving from the northern Occupied West Bank to the southern Hebron Hills Accompanying us is former Israeli soldier Nadav Weizmann And I joined the IDF in 2005 I served in the Special Forces Yeah, me and my team were snipers And inside the snipers team, everybody was snipers and I was the spotter Means that my job was to find the target Do you feel any regrets from the time you were in the army? Of course I did things that as a Democratic citizen I think you're not supposed to do I cannot fix what I didBut I can try to fix what is happening now So we're driving on Route 60 the main road of the West Bank goes from north to south And on our right-hand side is Hebron the second largest Palestinian city in the West Bank 230,000 Palestinians are living over there Hebron It's the only Palestinian city with a settlement inside of it All of the different settlements are on hilltops on valleys, on the outskirts of Palestinian cities But in Hebron, you have a settlement of 650 settlers that most of them declare themselves KahanistsThey believe in the ideological views of the Rabbi Meir Kahane Basically, they believe in Jewish supremacy and they are very, very violent settlers So I grew up in a settlement in the West Bank in a religious very right-wing family When I joined the army I was serving in Hebron I didn't know anything else but the settler narrative and the narrative that I grew up on Fences and wallsand soldiers everywhere around the settlements But these soldiers are not only defending the settlement And it took me a lot of years later to realize that this is not normal And it took me a lot of years to realize that Hebron is a Palestinian city This street is closed for Palestinians They're not allowed to walk on it Even Palestinians who live in this street They are locked in their houses and they are not allowed to go through their front door and walk on this street And that's for years now You must to keep them with heads downand the situations of the houses and entering houses is one of the situations where you really get them without any chance to react Suddenly you have 15 soldiers in your house with weapons and everything, and you just wake up and your children are screaming and crying Hebron is a microcosm where you can understand how the occupation happens in the other parts of the West Bank If you had the chance would you apologize to the people in Hebron I would sayit's an interesting question and I never thought about it, but I wouldn't bother to to say to apology to the Palestinians After the metropolis of Hebron we'll go down south, even more to the south to the southernmost point of the West Bank to an area that is called Masafer Yatta There is a couple of settlements and a lot of unauthorized outposts here in the area and a lot of settler violence along the hills So all of the Palestinians over here if they want anything to dig a new water system, to pave a roadto build a school, they need authorization of the civil administration the branch in the IDF that is in charge of all of the bureaucracy of the occupation So Palestinians in (Area) C territories they just don't get building permits And if they don't get building permits they get demolition orders, right? Because everything they build over here is illegal Then the IDF come and demolish So the first thing, by the way the civil administration demolishes over here in the south area, water systems and toiletsToilets? Yes, toilets Because if you demolish the water system to a community in the desert, you don't need to demolish other things, right? All of the houses all of the tents and caves because they don't have water They cannot live over here, and we don't want to put Palestinians on trucks like the photos from 1948 We want them to leave by themselves Exactly Zanuta used to be a Palestinian cave village of between 200 and 300 people And it's a village with a school They suffered attacks from settlers all of the timeall of the time, but also demolition of the civil administration as well About a month and a half ago, they left after they lived over here more than a hundred years Look at this. I don't know how to read Arabic Look at that panda I'm guessing it was on the wall I don't know what they took with themselves By the way, look how much the community from Zanuta are afraid They didn't come and take the school books or any of the tables Nothing. They just left and they're afraid to come back But we will not be able to visit or film Zanuta Someone wants us out of here He has a skull It has a skull on his uniform These guys are from which unit? It's a unit that they're called Agmar Agmar is settlers' units It means that I'm a settler hereand then I put uniform and now I'm a soldier over here We moved far from Zanuta to interview Nadav But the settlers sent someone to follow us They are also here? Yeah, yeah Also army Oh, it's army The next morninga Zionist pro-settler organisation posted the video on social media labeling Nadav a traitor Our journey across the occupied West Bank is coming to an end But there's still something important to cover We were invited to a closed-door conference We left Jerusalem, heading to Yavne just a step away from Gaza The main settler organizations are holding a conference near the border to select the first Jewish families to settle in Gaza We are the only media invited to cover it As we hear Israeli bombs falling on Gazathey already discuss how much land each family will take and the destiny of the people of Gaza the exile That same night while Gaza is relentlessly being erased they took a boat with the first families ready to occupy the land of those who are being killed and starved to death The purpose of the settlement movementis to get as close as possible to Gaza to fully observe Gaza, and to understand that from now on, Gaza will be completely Jewish! If God wills, the Israeli people will win ! We will build and witness the settlement of Zion and the settlement of the Israeli people in Gaza Look that’s Gaza! There is Gaza!