Complicit: How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank | Al Jazeera Investigates
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An undercover investigation by Al Jazeera reveals how western donors evade charity law to provide aid to illegal Israeli settlements.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. More than 230 of them are children. Attacks by settlers on rural Palestinian communities have increased, destroying property and capturing livestock, driving families from their homes. At the same time, the Israeli military has launched a large-scale assault on the densely populated Jenin refugee camp.
This film provides a comprehensive picture of the tactics the Israeli government uses to support the settlers and then, through infrastructure and building programmes, annex Palestinian land.
Western governments claim to oppose Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and uphold international law. However, undercover reporters from Al Jazeera expose how donors based in some Western countries fund the expansion of illegal settlements.
Al Jazeera journalists secretly film meetings with pro-settler organisations in Israel, claiming to be donors based in the UK looking to make large contributions to their projects. They’re told how funds can be paid as tax-deductible donations to charities in the UK and Canada who then pay the money on to their organisations. It is unlawful for charities in the UK and Canada to use donations to support the illegal settlement of the West Bank.
The Israeli organisations tell our undercover reporters how donations can be used to campaign for the demolition of Palestinian homes and provide military-grade security equipment such as drones and night vision cameras to settlers. We are also told that funds can be used to buy guns for settlers in occupied East Jerusalem and equipment for soldiers serving in the Israeli army.
The Israeli organisations are aware that their activities are considered unlawful in Canada and the UK and suggest ways to disguise the intended purpose of the donations, routing the funds through affiliated third parties and, in some cases, misreporting the true nature of their spending.
Charities in the UK and Canada are required to do extensive due diligence on how funds paid overseas are spent and to ensure they comply with the law. Al Jazeera’s evidence points to serious failings in this process.
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0:011 second[music]
0:1010 secondsH.
0:2626 secondsIn the West Bank, well over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war in Gaza.
0:3636 seconds[screaming]
0:3737 secondsMore than 230 of them are children.
0:4646 secondsIn occupied West Bank, people are always afraid.
0:5454 secondsThe message to the setters is you can do whatever you want. Hey, stop.
1:011 minute, 1 secondNo rules, nothing. Really, total anarchy.
1:061 minute, 6 seconds[screaming]
1:081 minute, 8 secondsIsrael is constantly reminding them every day that we are controlling [music] you, that you have no power.
1:171 minute, 17 secondsDon't even think about trying to resist this. I win, you lose again.
1:251 minute, 25 secondsIn this film, we go undercover to show how [music] Western donors evade charity law to provide aid to illegal settlements.
1:331 minute, 33 secondsThere's no paper trail. And it's not only that there's no paper trail, there's no actual connection between Regim and any UK charity.
1:421 minute, 42 secondsWe have gift set up in England and we can definitely do it. I just need to report I'm just being very military
1:501 minute, 50 secondsstuff. I we need to report it in a different way internally for them to be okay.
1:551 minute, 55 secondsThey were prepared to give to our educational nonprofit arm that that you'll be established. That sounds more okayish. You know what I mean?
2:072 minutes, 7 secondsWe show how some illegal settlements even receive lethal weaponry.
2:132 minutes, 13 secondsThank you very much to the friends of the Chaon in America and all over the whole world. These life-saving vests, helmets, and guns.
2:212 minutes, 21 secondsWe show how properties in the West Bank are marketed directly to Westerners.
2:262 minutes, 26 secondsI think ultimately it's the right move to come here. Between us, I don't think there ever going to be a Palestinian state over here. That's my opinion.
2:352 minutes, 35 secondsThe complicity of the West in Israel's illegal settlement project in the West Bank really cannot be overstated.
2:452 minutes, 45 seconds[music]
2:452 minutes, 45 secondsAnd we ask, what is Israel's endgame in the West Bank?
2:492 minutes, 49 secondsPalestine is vanishing. And what Israel is doing is a continuation and an extension of what it's doing in Gaza.
2:582 minutes, 58 seconds[music]
2:592 minutes, 59 secondsThe plan is clear. You don't have to be a genius to figure it out.
3:043 minutes, 4 seconds[screaming]
3:063 minutes, 6 secondsThey want the land without the people.
3:083 minutes, 8 secondsThey want the geography without the demography.
3:113 minutes, 11 seconds[music]
3:303 minutes, 30 seconds[music]
3:433 minutes, 43 secondsIsraeli settlers raid a Palestinian farm in the North Jordan Valley.
3:583 minutes, 58 secondsThey steal 70 sheep. They vandalize property.
4:174 minutes, 17 secondsfor
4:424 minutes, 42 secondsyou that Mr.
4:594 minutes, 59 secondsSleman Abu Safe and the activists who seek to protect him are regularly harassed by local settlers. This man is called Moshi Shvit.
5:165 minutes, 16 secondsShvid has been sanctioned by the US government. We know now he's been sanctioned by the UK government. He even has a restraining order from the
5:245 minutes, 24 secondsPalestinian family's home from the Israeli court. But none of that is stopping him.
5:345 minutes, 34 secondsCheck it. Don't talk to me about that. No. Get out of my face. Don't touch me.
5:405 minutes, 40 secondsGood. Don't touch me.
5:525 minutes, 52 secondsAnd not only is none of that stopping him, but our activists themselves have experienced him calling the army and giving them orders.
6:066 minutes, 6 secondsThey've been getting in our faces and attacking us.
6:146 minutes, 14 secondsMoshi Shaveit was granted his land by what is called the settlement division.
6:216 minutes, 21 secondsThe settlement division working with the Israeli government and the Israeli military confiscates Palestinians lands
6:286 minutes, 28 secondsand then allocates them to Israeli settlers. It provides financing to um settlements to purchase equipment. And
6:366 minutes, 36 secondsthis can include drones, vehicles, and electric fences. And it's important that this is being done not only in violation
6:436 minutes, 43 secondsof international law, but at times in violation of Israeli law itself.
6:496 minutes, 49 seconds[music]
6:506 minutes, 50 secondsThe settlement division is entirely funded by the Israeli state, but it is not part of the Israeli government.
6:566 minutes, 56 secondsInstead, [music] it is part of an international body called the World Zionist Organization.
7:047 minutes, 4 secondsI was the chairman of the World Zionist Organization 95 to 99. I'm not here to defend it and not here to represent it,
7:127 minutes, 12 secondsbut I will say that the overwhelming majority of the Jews around the world do not really know how it works.
7:227 minutes, 22 secondsThe World Zionist Organization was created in 1897 to promote the establishment of a Jewish state.
7:307 minutes, 30 secondsHundreds of organizations around the world are still affiliated to it.
7:347 minutes, 34 seconds[music]
7:377 minutes, 37 secondsIf you're living in the UK and [music] affiliated to a wide variety of Jewish communal institutions, you are likely in
7:467 minutes, 46 secondsthe last year to have received appeals, emails, vote in the World Zionist Congress elections.
7:537 minutes, 53 secondsThe Jewish Labor movement in the UK, part of the Labor Party, [music] is actively campaigning for votes for
8:018 minutes, 1 secondthe World Zionist Congress. And what are you voting for? You're voting for an organization which has a settlement division which is responsible for much
8:108 minutes, 10 secondsof the illegal activity in the settlement. What is going on there?
8:198 minutes, 19 secondsNowadays, the World Zest organization is the laundry machine of the Israeli government at the sense that they do
8:278 minutes, 27 secondstheir job on behalf of the state. So therefore they can invest in settlements, they can discriminate, they can bypass uh bypass the regulations etc
8:358 minutes, 35 secondsetc and do the job for the government without the government have to actually put itself in the in in in the real uh the real garbage.
8:488 minutes, 48 secondsThe settlement division plays a central and critical role in the financing of
8:548 minutes, 54 seconds[music]
8:548 minutes, 54 secondsillegal settlements. The fact that Western governments have turned a blind eye to the entire structure and policy system [music] that exists behind
9:039 minutes, 3 secondsIsrael's settlement and annexation project of the West Bank goes to the heart of Western complicity in the settlements themselves.
9:199 minutes, 19 secondsforeign.
9:499 minutes, 49 seconds[music]
9:519 minutes, 51 secondsThe year the World Zionist Organization was founded, Palestine [music] was still under Ottoman rule with the vast majority of its population made up
9:599 minutes, 59 secondsof Palestinian Arabs. By 1947, Jewish settlers owned around 7% of the land and
10:0610 minutes, 6 secondsmade up 33% of the population. In 1948, with the creation of Israel, nearly all
10:1310 minutes, 13 secondsof historic Palestine was seized. Apart from the West Bank and Gaza, 80% of Palestinians were forced to flee. In
10:2110 minutes, 21 seconds1967, during the course of the six-day war fought with Arab states, Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza, where its control continues to this day.
10:3810 minutes, 38 secondsAlmost 3 million Palestinians and half a million settlers live in the West Bank.
10:4510 minutes, 45 seconds[music]
10:4710 minutes, 47 secondsA further 350,000 Palestinians and 230,000 settlers live in annexed East Jerusalem.
10:5810 minutes, 58 secondsFor the National Religious Settler Community, the West Bank is the jewel of the crown. As they see it, the Jewish people have the exclusive [music] and
11:0711 minutes, 7 secondsinaliable right to all parts of the land of Israel.
11:1211 minutes, 12 secondsIn July 2024, the International Court of Justice confirmed that Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have been established and are
11:2011 minutes, 20 secondsbeing maintained in violation of international law.
11:2511 minutes, 25 secondsbecause we have a very clear uh advisory opinion by the highest court in the world which stated that the Israeli
11:3411 minutes, 34 secondspresence in the West Bank is unlawful and that no third party should provide any assistance directly or indirectly to
11:4411 minutes, 44 secondsthe Israeli presence in the West Bank then any such contribution is unlawful under international law.
11:5211 minutes, 52 secondsThe policy of the government of the UK is to oppose illegal settlements.
11:5611 minutes, 56 seconds[music]
11:5811 minutes, 58 secondsCan I say that I condemn categorically the development of settlements which are illegal under international law.
12:0612 minutes, 6 secondsSettlements do not offer um uh security to Israel or to Palestinians.
12:1212 minutes, 12 secondsIn November 2024, the UK's attorney general issued guidance [music] to government lawyers stating,
12:2012 minutes, 20 seconds"The government is required to comply with legal obligations arising under domestic [music] and international law.
12:2912 minutes, 29 secondsShalom.
12:3012 minutes, 30 secondsHi, nice to meet you. How are you feeling?" Yeah, I'm okay. I'm doing all right.
12:3712 minutes, 37 secondsIn May 2025, Al Jazzer launches an undercover operation to see if the Charity Commission and British charities are following the Attorney General's guidance to abide by international law.
12:5012 minutes, 50 secondsFirst of all, do you know anything about Regavim? That's my question. Um, I've done a bit of research.
12:5612 minutes, 56 secondsRegime is an Israeli organization that brings legal cases against what it regards as illegal Palestinian construction in the West Bank and elsewhere.
13:0713 minutes, 7 seconds[music]
13:0713 minutes, 7 secondsIn this Regav Vim video, two blocks of apartments outside Jerusalem are demolished following successful legal action.
13:1513 minutes, 15 secondsIn much of the West Bank, it is almost impossible for Palestinians [music] to obtain legal permission to build.
13:2213 minutes, 22 secondsOur undercover reporter told Regavim he had a large inheritance to donate.
13:2613 minutes, 26 seconds[music]
13:2913 minutes, 29 secondsI just had a question about the logistics of of the donation and whether you have a means by which we can make a taxdeductible donation in the UK.
13:4013 minutes, 40 secondsAbsolutely. We work through UK to remmit. So UK to Remmit um donates to an Israeli charity called it's a sister
13:4813 minutes, 48 secondsorganization called giving [music] and giving donates directly to us. That way it doesn't appear anywhere on the records of your family or individuals or
13:5813 minutes, 58 secondsorganizations or even UK tott that they have donated to rigav.
14:0414 minutes, 4 secondsWe are told that the donation will be channeled through a UK charitable giving platform called UK tomit which will hand it on to an Israeli
14:1214 minutes, 12 secondsplatform called giving which in turn will hand it to reavim.
14:2014 minutes, 20 secondsUK tomit was established in 2011 by Johnny Klene, a former candidate for Israel's Jewish Home Party.
14:2814 minutes, 28 secondsKlene is also the founder of giving.
14:3314 minutes, 33 secondsThere's no chance that I could get in trouble with the UK government for this sort of thing.
14:3714 minutes, 37 secondsAbsolutely not. That's exactly why because UK Torment is a an recognized British [music] charity with taxexempt
14:4514 minutes, 45 secondsstatus that um that clearly publicly uh and and within the law makes donations
14:5314 minutes, 53 secondsto Israeli uh causes and [music] we are one of them.
15:0015 minutesUnder British charity law, charities and their trustees are required to do due diligence and to know the end use of
15:0715 minutes, 7 secondstheir funds. However, what we've just seen seems to imply that there's a knowledge that the end use of these
15:1515 minutes, 15 secondsfunds are not lawful under English law and they are actively trying to conceal the end use of these funds.
15:2415 minutes, 24 secondsWhen we tried to give money directly to Reggga Vim via UK termmit, UK termit blocked [music] the payment. But we
15:3015 minutes, 30 secondsfound UK tomit does provide significant funds [music] to giving. UK Termmit's accounts show that in the year to March
15:3815 minutes, 38 secondsthe 31st, 2024, it transferred almost half a million [music] around $600,000
15:4515 minutes, 45 secondsto giving. a dramatic leap from under £50,000, [music] £58,000 in the year before the war in Gaza began.
15:5615 minutes, 56 secondsIf UK Torment failed to do sufficient due diligence into the end use of these funds, that raises serious concerns not only under charity law, but also under
16:0516 minutes, 5 secondstax law and what's required by HMRC's regulations on due diligence for charities.
16:1116 minutes, 11 secondsSo, if you are a an agent of a leftist organization that I'm speaking to right now, and that happens to me all the time, people call me and uh and are
16:2016 minutes, 20 secondstrying to get information so that they can um somehow or other get the UK organizations in trouble. Good luck
16:2916 minutes, 29 secondsbecause there's no there's no paper trail. And it's not only that there's no paper trail, there is no actual connection between Regavim and any UK charity.
16:4316 minutes, 43 secondsRegime was sanctioned by the EU in May 2026 and by [music] Canada in June 2026.
16:5116 minutes, 51 secondsIt has not been sanctioned in the UK so far.
16:5716 minutes, 57 secondsIn the 1990s, Israel and the Palestinians negotiated what were called the Oslo Peace Accords.
17:0617 minutes, 6 seconds[applause]
17:1017 minutes, 10 secondsThe West Bank was divided into three areas. Area A, which theoretically is under Palestinian [music] control. Area
17:1717 minutes, 17 secondsB, where the Palestinians have administrative control, but the Israelis have security control. and area C, where
17:2417 minutes, 24 secondsthe Israelis have total control. [music] This three-part division of the West Bank was intended as a first step
17:3317 minutes, 33 secondstowards an independent Palestinian state, but the peace process [music] never progressed any further.
17:4117 minutes, 41 secondsI was in the guidance committee of [music] the delegations. I resigned because they led to an agreement that I
17:4817 minutes, 48 secondswas completely against. It was an agreement that was not equal in the sense that uh from one side Palestinians
17:5617 minutes, 56 secondsrecognized Israel and its right to exist and Israel never accepted [music] or recognized Palestinian state or the
18:0418 minutes, 4 secondsright of Palestinians to have self-determination.
18:0718 minutes, 7 seconds[music]
18:0918 minutes, 9 secondsWere there Israelis who actually thought the best way forward for that country was to get out of the business of
18:1718 minutes, 17 secondsoccupation? [music] Some may have, but they never held sway. And so you end up having a negotiation between Israelis.
18:2618 minutes, 26 seconds[music]
18:2718 minutes, 27 secondsAnd in that negotiation, unsurprisingly, the center of gravity of an internal Israeli conversation couldn't meet the
18:3518 minutes, 35 secondsbare minimum that Palestinians would require. [music] In the 30 years following the Oslo Accords, the number of Israeli
18:4318 minutes, 43 secondssettlements on the West Bank grows from 128 to 30. While the settler population almost triples from a quarter of a million to almost 3/4 of a million.
18:5518 minutes, 55 secondsNetanyahu himself and the liquid party came to power with one agenda which is to destroy Oslo agreement and to kill it
19:0419 minutes, 4 secondsand they didn't hide that. But sometimes it becomes really a state of comedy and especially when they mention peace
19:1219 minutes, 12 secondsprocess because there is neither peace nor a process.
19:1819 minutes, 18 secondsI think it's clear that Israel is doing what any country would do if terrorists rain down rockets on its
19:2519 minutes, 25 secondscities or towns. [clears throat] It's right.
19:2819 minutes, 28 secondsIn the US, numerous nonprofits openly violate international law and give funds to illegal settlements in the West Bank.
19:3719 minutes, 37 secondsRockets [music] flying, people crying. [singing] Everything's blowing up. They say you [music] don't have a right to the land
19:4519 minutes, 45 secondsGod gave you. You give
19:4819 minutes, 48 seconds[music]
19:4819 minutes, 48 seconds[singing] enough.
19:5119 minutes, 51 secondsThe Christian Zionist nonprofit Hyaval reaches out to American donors through folksy songs. when all [singing] you really want is [music] peace.
20:0320 minutes, 3 secondsIn promotional videos, Hyavl boasts of the support it provides to the [music] West Bank, which it calls Judea and Samaria.
20:1220 minutes, 12 secondsOperation EI has been the single most successful operation bringing [music] security gear into the 200 communities
20:1820 minutes, 18 secondsof Judea and Samaria. To date, we've raised $3.5 million and procured over $7,500 items for protecting the communities.
20:3020 minutes, 30 secondsProtective vests, helmets, thermals, that's drones, and night vision, uh medical bags, essential life-saving
20:3820 minutes, 38 secondsgear. All of this could not happen without you. According to a study by the
20:4420 minutes, 44 secondsPalestinian NGO al-Hak, Hayavel is one of 34 US charities that provided $126
20:5220 minutes, 52 secondsmillion worth of aid for the expansion and establishment of West Bank settlements and $26 million worth for
20:5920 minutes, 59 secondssecurity in settlements between 2012 and 2023.
21:0421 minutes, 4 secondsWe are in the realm of an incurable incurable illegality. No one should
21:1121 minutes, 11 secondsengage with with the occupation business as usual because engaging does result in
21:2021 minutes, 20 secondsa form of aiding and abetting or aiding and assisting in a lawful endeavor.
21:2821 minutes, 28 secondsCanada like the UK opposes settlements in the West Bank.
21:3521 minutes, 35 secondsWe condemn the ongoing expansion of settlements and settler violence in the West Bank [music] and we condemn the
21:4321 minutes, 43 secondsforced displacement of the Palestinian population.
21:4821 minutes, 48 secondsAcademic Miles Howell has conducted a number of studies of Canada's charitable sector. He says Canada is not living up
21:5621 minutes, 56 secondsto its obligations under either international or Canadian domestic law.
22:0122 minutes, 1 second[music]
22:0222 minutes, 2 secondsAbsolutely. Um, charities in Canada are engaged in moving money to the illegal settlements. That is in contravention of
22:1022 minutes, 10 secondspublic policy. Um, [music] and the the Canadian government knows this. At this point, the Canadian government has removed the
22:1922 minutes, 19 secondscharitable status [music] of several organizations, but Dr. How says millions of Canadian dollars continue to flow, much of
22:2822 minutes, 28 seconds[music] it through a charitable giving platform called Misrai.
22:3222 minutes, 32 seconds2023. I'll I'll scroll back here to the table.
22:3822 minutes, 38 secondsMs. Rahi [music] in 2023 donated to a number of illegal settlements across the board.
22:4722 minutes, 47 secondsYou're looking at donations moving into the illegal settlements spanning the West Bank as well as illegally annexed East
22:5422 minutes, 54 secondsJerusalem. [music] You also have uh a lot of money moving into military supportive organizations.
23:0223 minutes, 2 secondsA drop-own menu on Misra's donations page lists 244 Israeli organizations, many operating in the West Bank or supporting the Israeli military.
23:1323 minutes, 13 secondsOne is lobbying organization Imu.
23:1723 minutes, 17 secondsIn just a few years, [music] Ingsu has risen to become one of Israel's most visible and outspoken defenders of
23:2323 minutes, 23 secondsZionism. Titsu combats what it sees as anti-ionist propaganda both inside and outside Israel and is a firm supporter of Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
23:3523 minutes, 35 secondsThroughout history, this land was not called the West Bank. Do not cooperate with Arab and anti-Jewish propaganda.
23:4323 minutes, 43 secondsCall this area by its real name, Judea and Samaria.
23:4823 minutes, 48 secondsImtu intimidates professors. It screens uh curricula. It goes after NOS's it
23:5623 minutes, 56 secondsconsiders to [music] be against the sort of uh greater Israel project. [music] We make a Canadian dollars payment to
24:0524 minutes, 5 secondsImu through Misrai Canada.
24:1124 minutes, 11 secondsMizrahi sends us an acknowledgement with the caveat.
24:1624 minutes, 16 secondsYour expressed desires have been of paramount importance to us in deciding how the funds were to be allocated.
24:2224 minutes, 22 secondsHowever, you will appreciate that any gift to Mitsrai must be spent in furtherance of the [music] objectives and purposes of the organization.
24:3324 minutes, 33 secondsTo put it bluntly, it's trying to cover its own legal.
24:3824 minutes, 38 secondsUp until recently, this caveat was not attached to any uh you know, thank you letter for your donation that Ms. Rocki
24:4624 minutes, 46 secondsCanada would [music] send to you. This has been sort of a a tried andrue uh mechanism to [music] get donations uh
24:5424 minutes, 54 secondsinto Israel uh with tax receipts from Misrai Canada.
25:0025 minutesWe receive no subsequent communication from Misrai Canada to [music] suggest our donation has been rejected.
25:0925 minutes, 9 secondsInstead, we had sent an official receipt for income tax purposes.
25:2425 minutes, 24 secondsBack in the Jordan Valley, [music] a primary school is attacked by settlers.
25:3825 minutes, 38 secondsAt the end of the incident, it is the school's headmaster who is arrested.
25:4425 minutes, 44 secondsIn the Jordan Valley, it's the weakest population because it's mainly shepherds communities, part of the beduins,
25:5425 minutes, 54 secondspoor people who are really living very very simple lives.
25:5925 minutes, 59 secondsThey are not protected by a mass of people. These people live nomadic lifestyles and that is why it is easier
26:0526 minutes, 5 secondsfor these settlers to set up camp around them and and push them to leave at the end.
26:1326 minutes, 13 secondsMore than 1600 people have been displaced, wiping out entire communities in the Jordan Valley since October 7th, 2023.
26:2426 minutes, 24 secondsThe Jordan Valley is primarily in area C [music] under Israeli control. The more densely populated hills to the west are
26:3226 minutes, 32 secondsa patchwork of areas A, [music] B, and C. The villages to the south of the city of Nablas are another focus of settler violence.
26:5326 minutes, 53 secondsThe settlements in the south of Nablo are the hardcore
27:0127 minutes, 1 secondideological center of the settlements project.
27:0627 minutes, 6 secondsExtremely [snorts] racist and violent settlers.
27:1627 minutes, 16 secondsSouth of the village of Burin, a single house sits on a strategic hillside surrounded by settlements.
27:3827 minutes, 38 secondsforeign
28:0728 minutes, 7 secondsgive
28:4328 minutes, 43 secondsMuch of the violence here and elsewhere is caused by what is known as hilltop youth.
28:5228 minutes, 52 seconds[music]
28:5328 minutes, 53 secondsyoung settlers who act as the vanguard of the settler movement.
29:0529 minutes, 5 secondsThe hilltop is serving a messianic purpose. They are the pioneers.
29:2129 minutes, 21 secondsIt's super scary and it's [music] super scary to see that these are so young. They're so young.
29:3129 minutes, 31 secondsMany of the hilltop youth come from troubled backgrounds or were previously in care.
29:4029 minutes, 40 secondsin the human rights sector. We have thought so many times that the Israeli welfare services should get involved there.
29:4929 minutes, 49 secondsMany of the Hilltop youth are minors that need help that need [music] to be taken care of by the social
29:5629 minutes, 56 secondsservices, but the politics of it is such that no one dares.
30:0530 minutes, 5 seconds[screaming]
30:1630 minutes, 16 secondsloyalty.
30:2530 minutes, 25 seconds[music]
30:2830 minutes, 28 secondsOkay.
30:4730 minutes, 47 secondsThey come from the margins but on top of them there are all kind of ideologists who are using them.
31:0031 minutesThe army is collaborating with them and many times even taking part in the pilgrims.
31:0831 minutes, 8 secondsThis is mine. This is Palestinian.
31:1131 minutes, 11 secondsMy water. I I I This is private land.
31:1831 minutes, 18 secondsSettlers have always enjoyed the support of the Israeli state.
31:2431 minutes, 24 secondsThe government Benjamin Netanyahu forms at the end of 2022 for the first time includes representatives of the most extreme settler groups.
31:3631 minutes, 36 secondsThe man in the white shirt is Beng, leader of the farright Jewish power.
31:4531 minutes, 45 secondsHere he and his supporters attack a Palestinian shopkeeper in Hebron.
31:5231 minutes, 52 secondsToday, Itamar Beng is Israel's Minister of National Security.
32:0332 minutes, 3 secondsBengavir advocates the expulsion or transfer of Palestinians.
32:1832 minutes, 18 secondsThe fuel in the engine [music] of Bengir is hatred. And the more hatred he incites, the more support he gets.
32:3232 minutes, 32 secondsShalom.
32:3732 minutes, 37 secondsBetalich is leader of the religious Zionism party. He is finance minister and also effectively the governor of the west bank.
32:4732 minutes, 47 seconds[music]
32:4732 minutes, 47 secondsBetal smotch is someone who produces a plan in 2017 which basically gives three options to [music] the Palestinians.
32:5932 minutes, 59 secondsAccept your status as people without collective rights in a Jewish state.
33:0633 minutes, 6 secondsMove to a third country or be militarily defeated. be killed.
33:1333 minutes, 13 seconds[music]
33:1433 minutes, 14 secondsThe current government represents a continuity with the past but also a break.
33:2333 minutes, 23 secondsAll governments after 67 had an impulse of occupation, annexation, colonization.
33:2933 minutes, 29 secondsBut at the same time, to different degrees, different governments had also in parallel an impulse to maintain some
33:3833 minutes, 38 secondskind of a liberal democracy image. The new government that came to power in the end of 2022 does not have this impulse anymore.
33:5033 minutes, 50 secondsThere is a very explicit agenda of uh no negotiation with the Palestinians.
33:5933 minutes, 59 seconds[clears throat and music]
34:0434 minutes, 4 seconds[music]
34:0734 minutes, 7 seconds9 months after the new government comes to power, Hamas launches its incursion into Israel. [music]
34:1834 minutes, 18 seconds[music]
34:2234 minutes, 22 secondsOver 1,000 Israelis are killed.
34:3034 minutes, 30 secondsMore than 250 are taken hostage.
34:3434 minutes, 34 seconds[music]
34:3734 minutes, 37 secondsOctober 7th ignited um visions of Holocaust and and and vocabulary of the Holocaust in Israeli discourse immediately. Immediately.
34:4734 minutes, 47 secondsThese are the new Nazis.
34:5434 minutes, 54 secondsVery quickly you see figures emerging with that messianic glint in their eye.
35:0135 minutes, 1 secondThe Lord works in mysterious ways, saying, "Yes, yes, yes. Bad things happen, but this is the moment we've been waiting for.
35:1135 minutes, 11 seconds[music]
35:2335 minutes, 23 secondsWe have a minister in our cabinet who openly said that we are living in times of miracles,
35:3235 minutes, 32 secondswhich means that we have an opportunity now to do things that would be very difficult to do in the past.
35:4035 minutes, 40 secondsas National Security Minister Ben Gavir immediately begins distributing weapons to civilians and announces an expansion
35:4735 minutes, 47 seconds[music] of paramilitary emergency response units known as the Katon.
35:5435 minutes, 54 seconds[music]
36:0436 minutes, 4 secondsAfter October 7th, we saw an increase in these informal emergency response units that were set up. These were recruited
36:1336 minutes, 13 secondsfrom the settlers themselves who had been given training by the Israeli army to crack down on any kind of what they see as a security incident.
36:2936 minutes, 29 secondsPalestinians and activists find themselves confronted with uniformed figures whose authority is unclear.
36:5536 minutes, 55 secondsThe people would see this settler living next to them one day and the next day this person would be above them with their gun, forcing them to check them, forcing them to do whatever it is.
37:0637 minutes, 6 secondsLay down. Lay down.
37:0837 minutes, 8 secondsSo basically, these settlers are attacking their neighbors. Hello. Hello.
37:1537 minutes, 15 secondsHello.
37:1937 minutes, 19 secondsIn 2025, UN agencies record 1,800 attacks by settlers on 280 communities.
37:2937 minutes, 29 seconds[music]
37:3537 minutes, 35 secondsIn the first month of the war in Iran, more than 300 acts of settler violence take place.
37:4637 minutes, 46 secondsOh, there we go.
37:4737 minutes, 47 secondsGive it a go. Here we go. Thank you. I like David Rose.
37:5037 minutes, 50 secondsReal pleasure to meet both of you. It's um Yeah, thanks for taking the time. Our undercover reporter contacts an Israeli
37:5837 minutes, 58 secondsnonprofit called the Israel Magen Fund which supplies non-lethal military equipment to Israeli soldiers and to Kat
38:0538 minutes, 5 secondsKonut paramilitaries in the settlement of the West Bank known in Hebrew as Yehuda and Shamron.
38:1338 minutes, 13 secondsIslam fund was founded by us a couple years ago. Before the war, we were dealing a lot with security elements in
38:2238 minutes, 22 secondsYudavish and Ron, buying equipment for different what's called kot konut, that's first responders on the on the
38:3038 minutes, 30 secondsground if, god forbid, someone comes into the into the community. And then when the war broke out, so Islam again
38:3838 minutes, 38 secondsfound use its resources and connections to buy um equipment for soldiers. in the
38:4638 minutes, 46 secondsbeginning was uh clothing uh items. We actually got from the UK um uh I think close to 3,000 winter coats last year.
38:5738 minutes, 57 seconds[music]
38:5838 minutes, 58 secondsAccording to the British Charity Commission, the law is clear that a charity in the UK cannot provide aid or military
39:0539 minutes, 5 secondssupplies to any foreign armed force in furtherance of a charitable purpose.
39:1039 minutes, 10 seconds[music]
39:1139 minutes, 11 secondsSo the prohibition in the law extends to all foreign armed services and so that
39:1839 minutes, 18 secondswould include things like volunteer civilian militia groups or reser groups that are performing the functions of a military. It would cover kitachin.
39:2939 minutes, 29 seconds[music]
39:3039 minutes, 30 secondsThe Magen fund says they do not provide lethal weaponry.
39:3639 minutes, 36 secondsWeapons we don't buy. We can't we can't supply with weapons. We can give everything around the weapons. If they need better um scopes, it mean better
39:4539 minutes, 45 secondsbags and different stuff like that or medical bags or better helmets, that's what we do. The actual gun, the rifle comes from the army.
39:5339 minutes, 53 secondsThe non-lethal military equipment provided by the Magen Fund includes drones.
39:5939 minutes, 59 secondsThe drones in the West Bank are used by settlers as part of the ethnic cleansing apparatus.
40:1040 minutes, 10 secondsThey send a drone to harass the children. So they'll send a drone and like it zooms down at the children. It zooms around them. It's purposely trying to scare and terrify the children.
40:2140 minutes, 21 seconds[music]
40:2240 minutes, 22 secondsThe Magen Fund also provides allterrain vehicles in the West Bank. These are also often
40:2940 minutes, 29 secondsused to harass Palestinians and their flocks.
40:3440 minutes, 34 secondsIn British charity law, there is no distinction between lethal and non-lethal equipment, weaponry, so forth.
40:4640 minutes, 46 secondsEverything that has to do with the agricultural farms, everything that has to do with the outposts is about
40:5440 minutes, 54 secondsmaintaining uh uh control over the Palestinians in the surrounding area and cleansing the area from their presence.
41:0241 minutes, 2 secondsI win, you lose again.
41:0941 minutes, 9 secondsThe accounts of the Magen Funds fundraising arm in the UK show that in the year to the 30th of April 2024,
41:1641 minutes, 16 secondsit sent more than £8,000 in charitable donations to the Israel Magen Fund and almost £70,000 to Israel Balev, the name
41:2541 minutes, 25 secondsby which the Israel Magen Fund was known until that year. [music] Any funds that are sent for the purchase of
41:3541 minutes, 35 secondsmilitary security equipment, the charity is not acting lawfully under British law. The Magen Fund is aware
41:4341 minutes, 43 secondscharitable donations from British donors cannot be used to purchase military equipment.
41:4841 minutes, 48 secondsIf you have to go through a charity, then anything to do with like to buy military equipment for soldiers, that's
41:5641 minutes, 56 secondswhere the problem begins with the UK authorities.
42:0042 minutesBut the Magen fund says it is prepared to use subtifuge to conceal how funds are used.
42:0742 minutes, 7 secondsSo even though we got stuff as soldiers in the beginning from we actually those winter coats I got a quest a question about it says why did you these coats go
42:1642 minutes, 16 secondsto and I realized the question was did you go to soldiers and my answer was no it did not go to soldiers went to civilians that were evacuated and finish
42:2442 minutes, 24 secondscuz if you go to soldiers will be in big trouble but it went to soldiers
42:3242 minutes, 32 secondsit's a criminal offense to knowingly or recklessly ly provide false or misleading information to the charity commission.
42:4042 minutes, 40 secondsIf the Israeli entity pro misled the British entity who then went on to provide that information to the charity
42:4842 minutes, 48 secondscommission, the British entity is likely falling short of its due diligence requirements under charity law. However, if it's the case that the British
42:5642 minutes, 56 secondscharity knew that the coats were not going to civilians, we were going to soldiers and then pass that information on to the charity commission, then that
43:0543 minutes, 5 secondsmay amount to a criminal offense in the UK.
43:0943 minutes, 9 seconds[music]
43:1143 minutes, 11 secondsYou're not alone. [singing] American charities like Havel, which [music] sing Israel's praises and openly
43:1843 minutes, 18 secondsprovide security equipment to West Bank settlements, [music] do not list lethal weaponry among the items they send.
43:2843 minutes, 28 secondsBut thank you videos produced by the Shamron District Council in the north of the West Bank state that some western assistance is being used to buy
43:3643 minutes, 36 secondsweaponry. [music] Thank you very much to the friends of the Shamron in America and all over the whole world. These life-saving vests,
43:4443 minutes, 44 secondshelmets, and guns will go a long way in keeping our troops here safe in all the shamron.
44:1044 minutes, 10 seconds[music]
44:1144 minutes, 11 secondsThis video not only thanks donors, it also identifies the locations where money for weapons has come from. [music]
44:2144 minutes, 21 secondsIt's a clear violation of international law to send funds that are then used to purchase lethal weaponry or other
44:3044 minutes, 30 secondsequipment that further violations of international law and war crimes potentially in the West Bank. I think
44:3844 minutes, 38 secondsthis sense of impunity is so deep that they are willing to put these well-edited videos together and
44:4544 minutes, 45 secondsadvertise violations of international law to the world.
44:5344 minutes, 53 secondsWhile [music] Palestinians face daily harassment from settlers, most of those killed are killed by the army.
45:0345 minutes, 3 seconds[music]
45:0745 minutes, 7 secondsAs in Gaza, soldiers regularly post videos online, often [music] set to music.
45:1645 minutes, 16 secondsPerfect.
45:2045 minutes, 20 seconds[music]
45:2445 minutes, 24 seconds[music]
45:4445 minutes, 44 secondsI am not
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46:1146 minutes, 11 secondsback.
46:2146 minutes, 21 secondsWhat I do this
46:3646 minutes, 36 seconds[music]
46:3846 minutes, 38 seconds[laughter]
46:4146 minutes, 41 secondsthe main focus of the army's operations has [music] been the refugee camps in the north of the West Bank, particularly Janine, a traditional hotbed of
46:5046 minutes, 50 secondsPalestinian [music] resistance to Israeli occupation.
46:5746 minutes, 57 secondsPalestinians who live inside these
46:5946 minutes, 59 seconds[music]
46:5946 minutes, 59 secondsrefugee camps are internally displaced Palestinians uh survivors of the 1948 Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of
47:0747 minutes, 7 secondsPalestine, and are living in some of the worst conditions to this day.
47:1747 minutes, 17 secondsAs in Gaza, [music] the army has carried out wholesale destruction in the refugee camps.
47:3347 minutes, 33 secondsPalestinians have been killed. Among them are close to 40 children.
47:4447 minutes, 44 seconds[music]
47:4747 minutes, 47 secondsI've interviewed so many families of people who who had nothing to do with anything. They weren't armed. They weren't fighters. [music]
47:5947 minutes, 59 secondsThe Israeli army was shooting left and right.
48:0448 minutes, 4 seconds[music]
48:0548 minutes, 5 secondsIn one incident, Israeli special forces disguised as medical staff raid a hospital. Their target is two low-level
48:1348 minutes, 13 secondsresistance fighters, the brothers Muhammad and Basil Al Gazawi. [music]
48:4748 minutes, 47 secondsOn the night the Israelis raid the hospital, Muhammad is [music] sitting with his brother Basil. The Israelis burst into the room and killed them both.
48:5948 minutes, 59 seconds[music]
49:0549 minutes, 5 secondsfor
49:1249 minutes, 12 seconds[snorts]
49:1949 minutes, 19 seconds[snorts]
49:2449 minutes, 24 secondsand if Israeli soldiers disguise themselves as medical staff in order to either arrest or kill a wanted person,
49:3249 minutes, 32 secondsthere's a specific war crime that they have committed.
49:3649 minutes, 36 secondsAnd that's perod. Perod is using the trust that people give a medical person in order to arrest or or kill.
49:4849 minutes, 48 seconds[music]
49:5149 minutes, 51 secondsThe refugee camp in Janine has been largely destroyed.
50:0250 minutes, 2 secondsfor that [music] like
50:2250 minutes, 22 secondsas in Gaza almost the entire population 18,000 people was forced out.
50:3050 minutes, 30 secondsThousands more were driven from other refugee camps of the northern West Bank.
50:4050 minutes, 40 secondsThis is a pilot.
50:4350 minutes, 43 secondsThey will continue from there to Nablus, I'm afraid, and do the same in the refugee camps of Nablus. And then
50:5050 minutes, 50 secondsthey'll go down to the south. If it will work, if the international community will let it happen, the idea is to
50:5950 minutes, 59 secondsdestroy the concept of Palestinians in Palestine.
51:0451 minutes, 4 secondsSoldiers conducting operations [music] in the West Bank also receive charitable donations from the West.
51:1151 minutes, 11 seconds[music]
51:1751 minutes, 17 seconds[music] This is a promotional video for Yashivat Hakotel.
51:2651 minutes, 26 seconds[music]
51:2951 minutes, 29 secondsYeshivat hakotel is what is called a [music] Hezda yeshiva.
51:3551 minutes, 35 secondsHeshester yeshivas are institutions in Israel that combine religious study with military service. [music] And often
51:4351 minutes, 43 secondsthese programs have formal agreements with the Israeli military.
51:4851 minutes, 48 secondsYou begin with study, then you go into direct service, and then you end with more study. And so it's an arrangement with the IDF. These soldiers are in
51:5751 minutes, 57 secondsactive military service. [music] Located in illegally occupied East
52:0552 minutes, 5 secondsJerusalem, Yeshiva Takotel is one of 80 Israeli Hezbla Yeshivas. It makes no attempt to conceal its military role.
52:1452 minutes, 14 secondsYeshiva is a very very special program helping [music] them as they continue to grow on one hand in Torah and mitzvah and they're learning yeshiva but
52:2252 minutes, 22 secondstogether with that getting them ready for the army both ideologically [music] and practically while they're in yeshiva afterwards in the army after they come
52:3052 minutes, 30 secondsback from the army and [music] as they continue to grow out and build their homes here initivatel's
52:3852 minutes, 38 secondsFacebook page includes videos [music] of students undergoing military training and serving in Gaza.
52:5152 minutes, 51 secondsA foreign military is not an acceptable recipient of Canadian charity in Canadian [music] law.
52:5852 minutes, 58 secondsBut Miles How's study of Canadian charitable donations shows that in 2023, the equivalent [music] of almost
53:0553 minutes, 5 seconds$650,000 was given to Hezda Yashivas in Israel.
53:1253 minutes, 12 secondsYou are dealing with about 20 Hezra Yeshivas in receipt [music] of Canadian charitable donations.
53:2053 minutes, 20 secondsWe make a Canadian dollars payment [music] to Yashivat Hakotel through Ms. Rahi Canada.
53:2853 minutes, 28 seconds[music]
53:3053 minutes, 30 secondsMisrahi Canada acknowledged receipt of our payment again with the caveat that any gift to Ms. Drai must be spent in
53:3853 minutes, 38 secondsfurtherance of the objectives and purposes of the organization.
53:4453 minutes, 44 seconds[music]
53:4753 minutes, 47 secondsWe are also able to make a payment to the charity British Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel through their own website.
53:5553 minutes, 55 secondsOur donation is accepted [music] and I think this comes back to the lack of enforcement in the UK and of the law as it exists.
54:0454 minutes, 4 seconds[music]
54:0454 minutes, 4 secondsUm the charity commission has been very unwilling to [music] look at charities in Israel that have
54:1154 minutes, 11 secondsdual purposes and that's where the scrutiny from the charity commission needs to be much stronger.
54:1754 minutes, 17 seconds[music]
54:1854 minutes, 18 seconds[singing]
54:2354 minutes, 23 secondsEast Jerusalem is the epicenter of the settlement project.
54:3754 minutes, 37 secondsUnder international law, East Jerusalem remains occupied territory, but the Israelis have formally annexed it.
54:4754 minutes, 47 secondsPalestinians face daily harassment and brutality from both settlers
54:5954 minutes, 59 secondsand Israeli security forces.
55:0855 minutes, 8 secondsThe Israelis aim is to increase the number of Jews living here and to reduce the number of Palestinians. [music]
55:1655 minutes, 16 secondsYou actually have a phrase that is used by the Israeli authorities for what they are doing in Jerusalem, the Judaization of as much of Jerusalem as possible.
55:2755 minutes, 27 seconds[music]
55:2855 minutes, 28 secondsOf course, if virtually any outsider were to say, "You're doing the Judaization of
55:3655 minutes, 36 secondsJerusalem," they have a one-word response for what they're going to call you. They're going to call you an anti-semite. But that's the word they use for what they are intending to do.
55:5455 minutes, 54 secondsHi there. Hi. Can you hear me? Yeah, I'll make it louder. One second.
56:0156 minutes, 1 secondThe next organization we investigate is an Israeli group called Ataret Kohanim.
56:0656 minutes, 6 secondsOkay. So, in a nutshell, I'm not going to pretend that we're not very controversial. We are controversial. The work of the organization
56:1656 minutes, 16 secondsum is involved in basically strengthening Jewish roots in the heart of Jerusalem. Um, it's ideological real
56:2456 minutes, 24 secondsestate, but usually it's straightforward. Arab sells, Jew buys, and Jew moves in, and they look after
56:3156 minutes, 31 secondsthe Jewish life in the area. Shalom, everyone. We're at war. It's crazy periods. It's anti-semitism. It's
56:3856 minutes, 38 secondsattacks in the north and the south. And they want your shalame. Your shalame is ours, and no one will take it away. Make your statement cuz that will keep your shell in Jewish hands for generations.
56:5256 minutes, 52 secondsIn the Ban Alhawa neighborhood of East Jerusalem, dozens of Palestinian families have already been evicted as a result of Atar Kanim's activities.
57:0657 minutes, 6 secondsResidents are regularly harassed by the security forces.
57:1457 minutes, 14 secondsDaniel Lauria reveals that Ataret Guanim subsidizes the purchase of weapons.
57:2057 minutes, 20 secondsListen, our families are not necessarily the cream of the crop. Not saying everyone's a poor part, but a lot of
57:2757 minutes, 27 secondsthem are Yeshua students. A lot of them are starting to shiver their teachers.
57:3157 minutes, 31 secondsSo, you know, guns could be 4,000 shekels and that, you know, would be half a wage for some of these people.
57:3857 minutes, 38 secondsSo, you know, we we subsidize a little bit, do a visit to help out. Um, this this is all about Jewish sovereignty.
57:4957 minutes, 49 secondsLauria tells our undercover reporter that charitable donations to Ataret Kuanim from the UK are not eligible for charitable tax deductions.
57:5857 minutes, 58 secondsIt comes down to basically whether you need a tax deduction. I can't give you a tax deduction. Once upon a time years ago and at the end they gave me such a
58:0758 minutes, 7 secondsheadache and it was a nightmare and they refused to do it afterwards. I use But Lauria says there is a way around this problem.
58:1658 minutes, 16 secondsIn an email, he tells us to donate through the charitable giving platform called UK Tormmit.
58:2258 minutes, 22 secondsThis is the same platform that Regavim told us to use.
58:2858 minutes, 28 secondsWhen we had attempted to make a small donation directly from UK totim, UK tomit had blocked it.
58:3858 minutes, 38 secondsBut Lauria tells us on a previous occasion with another UK donor, we used UK termit to successfully
58:4758 minutes, 47 secondstransfer funds to us from the UK. It was sent to our sister nonprofit org under our opaces, Midrashet, Kidmatim.
58:5858 minutes, 58 secondsThis other guy who wanted a tax deduction went with them and they were prepared to give not
59:0659 minutes, 6 secondsto our educational nonprofit arm that that we established. That sounds more
59:1459 minutes, 14 secondsokayish if you know what I mean. It deals with education, tourism, etc. We still got the money because and and he was happy cuz he got his tax deduction.
59:2459 minutes, 24 secondsIf the main purpose of an organization registered as a charity is to promote and expand illegal
59:3259 minutes, 32 secondssettlements, donating to that charity will never meet the public benefit test for charities in the UK. At the same
59:4059 minutes, 40 secondstime, what the clip indicates to me is that they've become smart to this. There is indication that there's intent to deceive and that this is happening knowingly.
59:5259 minutes, 52 seconds[music]
59:5259 minutes, 52 secondsLauria copies in on the email.
59:5559 minutes, 55 secondsReli from UK to Remmit who can handle all matters and best if you two are in direct contact with each other and just CC me. Thanks Relli.
1:00:061 hour, 6 secondsThis is Racheli Fischel, head of finance and compliance at UK Tormet.
1:00:121 hour, 12 secondsFishell replies almost immediately [music] giving our undercover reporter details of how a donation could be made via UK tomit and attaching a gift day
1:00:221 hour, 22 secondsdeclaration so he can apply for charitable tax relief.
1:00:271 hour, 27 seconds[music] Please let me know how you will be donating. Please put in the reference of your bank transfer. He says [music]
1:00:381 hour, 38 secondsLauria reveals he has previously used the same educational foundation to obtain a very large charitable donation
1:00:441 hour, 44 secondsfrom Australia to renovate a bait kesset or synagogue in Australia. I managed to get the JNF
1:00:521 hour, 52 secondsto approve that other nonprofit I told you about. So uh so people who wanted to give to us gave through them and I got
1:01:001 hour, 1 minuteit that way. Um, you know, there was a very big donor that gave money for the bacon asset and forced their hand to
1:01:061 hour, 1 minute, 6 secondstake a donation of $1.25 million so we can restore a bacon asset.
1:01:121 hour, 1 minute, 12 secondsThe JNF or Jewish National Fund buys land and seeks to promote Jewish settlement in Israel. Until May 2024,
1:01:201 hour, 1 minute, 20 secondsthe website of its Australian branch hosted at Kohanim and its educational subsidiary Midashit Kmat Yu Shalim along with a donate button.
1:01:331 hour, 1 minute, 33 secondsJNF is one of the largest Israeli organizations and even in the UK there
1:01:401 hour, 1 minute, 40 secondshas been a decadesl long campaign to get the charity commission to look into the grant making process of JNF UK where
1:01:461 hour, 1 minute, 46 secondsthere's strong evidence that donations from British individuals have directly been used to displace Palestinians
1:01:531 hour, 1 minute, 53 seconds[music]
1:01:551 hour, 1 minute, 55 secondsum and confiscate Palestinian lands in the occupied territory.
1:02:011 hour, 2 minutes, 1 secondThe Jewish suburbs and satellite towns of East Jerusalem are now spreading remorselessly outwards [music] into the countryside of the West Bank.
1:02:091 hour, 2 minutes, 9 secondsIt's the landscape that represents the settlement project at its most advanced stage. [music]
1:02:211 hour, 2 minutes, 21 secondsBehind [music] me is uh Harum settlement, Abuim Mountain. what used to
1:02:281 hour, 2 minutes, 28 secondsbe a a forest. Today it stands with almost 30,000 settlers and it's going to
1:02:361 hour, 2 minutes, 36 secondsbe one of the biggest, if not the biggest settlement in the West Bank area. [music]
1:02:451 hour, 2 minutes, 45 secondsNow what the Israelis are planning to do is to form a belt of settlement that
1:02:531 hour, 2 minutes, 53 secondswill spread uh across uh the south area of Jerusalem starting with this
1:03:011 hour, 3 minutes, 1 secondsettlement and link it geographically with Gatos
1:03:091 hour, 3 minutes, 9 secondsGilo settlement Hargilo settlement and this belt of settlement will work to connect with the Goshhation area.
1:03:191 hour, 3 minutes, 19 secondsNow, all of them will form a belt of settlements that will physically separate Bethlehem from Jerusalem.
1:03:301 hour, 3 minutes, 30 seconds[music]
1:03:311 hour, 3 minutes, 31 secondsOur undercover reporter found Israeli real estate agents aggressively marketing West Bank properties to Westerners.
1:03:401 hour, 3 minutes, 40 secondsI'm going to share with you the map, but you'll see. Um, look, here's Kaleshaw.
1:03:451 hour, 3 minutes, 45 secondsSo, you don't really pass any Arab villages on on the way that feels like almost part of Israel. Going there, you won't be passing by any villages.
1:03:581 hour, 3 minutes, 58 secondsThey're actually approving more buildings everywhere in all of the places right now. So, they're the ones that's, you know, it's the government who's, you know, approving all this
1:04:061 hour, 4 minutes, 6 secondshousing construction. So, they're definitely not going to build it to break it up. You know, that's for sure.
1:04:121 hour, 4 minutes, 12 secondsI think ultimately it's the right move to come here. Uh ultimately this will be the safest place between us. I don't think there ever going to be a
1:04:191 hour, 4 minutes, 19 secondsPalestinian state over here. That's my opinion.
1:04:231 hour, 4 minutes, 23 secondsOn the British government website it talks about you know that it advises against buying any properties in Judea
1:04:301 hour, 4 minutes, 30 secondsand Samaria. Do you do you sell a lot to British people?
1:04:341 hour, 4 minutes, 34 secondsYes. [music] Sure. Sure. No one no one worries about that. No one worries.
1:04:411 hour, 4 minutes, 41 secondsEvery government could say whatever they want. They have no control of what goes on in our country and what we decide.
1:04:451 hour, 4 minutes, 45 secondsYou know what I mean? Like they're not going to be able to do anything about it. They're going to come to war with us. You know what I mean?
1:04:531 hour, 4 minutes, 53 secondsForeign buyers even enjoy a tax break.
1:04:571 hour, 4 minutes, 57 secondsThat's correct. In today's Israel real estate law, um, whatever is across the green line, which is, uh, defined as
1:05:061 hour, 5 minutes, 6 secondsJudan Samaria, and you're a foreigner, you do not have to pay purchase taxes because it's not officially recognized
1:05:141 hour, 5 minutes, 14 secondsas Israel. Uh, so whatever. So, you can enjoy at least for that uh, tax benefit.
1:05:221 hour, 5 minutes, 22 seconds[music]
1:05:231 hour, 5 minutes, 23 secondsIt is absolutely legal to sell properties in the occupied territory.
1:05:271 hour, 5 minutes, 27 secondsThere is no question about that this is stolen property is like profiting whomever is taking uh a fee is profiting
1:05:361 hour, 5 minutes, 36 secondsfrom the the income from an unlawful endeavor. Right now you can go from
1:05:431 hour, 5 minutes, 43 secondsJerusalem to Bethlehem and the whole way will be populated with so-called
1:05:501 hour, 5 minutes, 50 secondsmoderate liberal settlers, liberal Orthodox Jews
1:05:571 hour, 5 minutes, 57 secondscoming mainly from English-speaking countries, part of them Americans, Brits and others of Africans,
1:06:051 hour, 6 minutes, 5 secondsAustralians
1:06:061 hour, 6 minutes, 6 seconds[music]
1:06:071 hour, 6 minutes, 7 secondsand they feel very good about themselves because they are not the those violent settlers, they are liberals and
1:06:141 hour, 6 minutes, 14 secondsdemocrats. The fact that they all live on stolen lands is totally
1:06:201 hour, 6 minutes, 20 secondscovered up. But the idea is a very clear idea to create one continuity between
1:06:291 hour, 6 minutes, 29 secondsJerusalem to Bethlehem and to make all of it annexated.
1:06:361 hour, 6 minutes, 36 secondsFor Palestinians living in what remains of the countryside south of Jerusalem, the result is a landscape carved up by
1:06:431 hour, 6 minutes, 43 secondsroads, bridges, and tunnels that can only be used by Israelis.
1:06:501 hour, 6 minutes, 50 secondsThis is the only place in the whole world where you have segregated roads, where major roads, highways are
1:06:581 hour, 6 minutes, 58 secondsexclusive for Israelis. If I am or any other person in the West Bank is caught walking or driving on any of these
1:07:051 hour, 7 minutes, 5 secondsroads, we could be put in jail for 6 months. [music] Highway 60 slices the area in two.
1:07:191 hour, 7 minutes, 19 seconds[music]
1:07:231 hour, 7 minutes, 23 secondsPalestinian farmer Abu Aid lost all but five dunams, just over an acre of his land when it was built. He was not compensated.
1:07:421 hour, 7 minutes, 42 secondsFore! Foreign! Foreign!
1:07:531 hour, 7 minutes, 53 secondsforch.
1:08:311 hour, 8 minutes, 31 secondsTo the south, the city of Bethlehem is tightly hemmed in by Israel's security barrier.
1:08:381 hour, 8 minutes, 38 secondsJust look at the wall outside of Bethlehem. You see it's pushing as much as they could pushing it inside towards
1:08:461 hour, 8 minutes, 46 secondsBethlehem. And then you see outside of the wall what they have confiscated all the way leading into to Jerusalem.
1:08:531 hour, 8 minutes, 53 secondsWhat's happening here is not much of the land is left for the people to build and
1:09:001 hour, 9 minutesexpand on in the future. So people don't have much land to cope with the population growth.
1:09:101 hour, 9 minutes, 10 secondsAfter October 7th, 2023, Israel expands its network of roadblocks and checkpoints across the West Bank to more
1:09:171 hour, 9 minutes, 17 secondsthan 900, leaving Palestinians increasingly isolated within their towns and villages.
1:09:271 hour, 9 minutes, 27 secondsThere are checkpoints at the entrances to every Palestinian city and villages.
1:09:311 hour, 9 minutes, 31 secondsSo, you are literally in a prison. in a prison. Inside the prison
1:09:421 hour, 9 minutes, 42 secondswith this regime of hundreds of hundreds of checkpoints which can be closed and opened in any given moment, life stops being livable.
1:09:541 hour, 9 minutes, 54 seconds[music]
1:09:551 hour, 9 minutes, 55 secondsMany times you witness, we see it with our own eyes, the harassment, the beating of people who are stopped at these checkpoints.
1:10:041 hour, 10 minutes, 4 secondsMany times people are killed at these checkpoints.
1:10:091 hour, 10 minutes, 9 secondsI mean, every time I drive through a checkpoint, you know, I'm shaking.
1:10:231 hour, 10 minutes, 23 seconds[music]
1:10:251 hour, 10 minutes, 25 secondsunveils his vision for the future of the West Bank.
1:10:421 hour, 10 minutes, 42 secondsHe displays a map that shows the Palestinian population restricted [music] to six densely populated urban areas.
1:10:491 hour, 10 minutes, 49 secondsIn April 2026, approval is granted for a further 34 settlements.
1:10:561 hour, 10 minutes, 56 secondsMore evictions of Palestinian communities follow in May when Smatri announces the International Criminal Court is seeking an arrest warrant against him.
1:11:071 hour, 11 minutes, 7 secondsThe plan is clear. You [music] don't have to be a genius to figure it out. They want the land without the people.
1:11:121 hour, 11 minutes, 12 secondsThey want the geography without the demography.
1:11:211 hour, 11 minutes, 21 seconds[music]
1:11:241 hour, 11 minutes, 24 secondsThe complicity of the West in Israel's illegal settlement project in the West Bank really cannot be overstated.
1:11:531 hour, 11 minutes, 53 secondsThe West as a whole is entirely complicit. America first and foremost, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New
1:12:001 hour, 12 minutesZealand, France, Germany. um to a varying degree.
1:12:131 hour, 12 minutes, 13 secondsWestern governments are more than happy to pay lip service to international law and the international rules-based order.
1:12:211 hour, 12 minutes, 21 secondsAt the same time, they are not even close to meeting their own legal obligations under that same international law.
1:12:351 hour, 12 minutes, 35 secondsI have already been hearing people on the ground saying that they are afraid of the massacres that are yet to come.
1:12:411 hour, 12 minutes, 41 secondsAnd they believe in their hearts that settlers are going to commit massacres in the occupied West Bank. They believe that the Israeli army will close the village.
1:12:511 hour, 12 minutes, 51 secondsThe settlers will attack and people will have nowhere to go.
1:12:551 hour, 12 minutes, 55 secondsIn the same way that Gaza is a prison and people have nowhere to go and they're being attacked, if what's happening in the West Bank is
1:13:031 hour, 13 minutes, 3 secondsnot stopped, if there is no international intervention, there will no longer be a Palestine.
1:13:111 hour, 13 minutes, 11 secondsPalestine will will disappear.
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개요 및 핵심 요약 (<해라> 체 적용)
1. 서구 자선법의 맹점과 위장 자금 조달 메커니즘
알자지라의 탐사보도 다큐멘터리는 영국, 미국, 캐나다 등 서구 사회가 겉으로는 이스라엘의 요르단강 서안 지구 점령을 반대하고 국제법 준수를 외치면서도, 실질적으로는 내부의 자선법망을 우회하여 불법 정착촌 확장을 재정적으로 방조·지원하고 있는 표리부동한 실태를 고발한다
이스라엘의 우익 정착민 단체인 레가빔(Regavim)을 비롯한 여러 조직은 서구 기부자들이 세금 공제 혜택을 받으면서 자금을 보낼 수 있는 구체적인 방법을 제시한다
2. 정착민 폭력의 구조화와 무기 지원 실태
이러한 우회 경로를 통해 유입된 서구의 자금은 단순히 정착촌의 기반 시설 확충에 그치지 않고, 팔레스타인 주민들을 위협하고 강제 이주시키기 위한 군사적 목적으로 전용된다
3. 이스라엘 국가 권력과의 결탁 및 팔레스타인 지우기
다큐멘터리는 이러한 정착민들의 폭력과 영토 강탈이 몇몇 극단주의자들의 일탈이 아니라, 이스라엘 국가 권력의 체계적인 기획 하에 수행되고 있음을 보여준다
분석적 평론 요약 (<해라> 체 적용)
자선(Charity)의 무기화와 서구의 제도적 방조
본 다큐멘터리가 지닌 가장 날카로운 통찰은 전쟁과 점령이 군사적 물리력만으로 유지되는 것이 아니라, 서구 민주주의 국가들의 '제도적 맹점'과 '재정적 혈맥'을 통해 지속된다는 점을 증명한 데 있다
지리적 점령을 위한 인구학적 청소: 영토 유지를 위한 배제
다큐멘터리 후반부에서 언급된 "그들은 인구 없이 지리만을 원한다"라는 문장은 이스라엘 식민주의의 핵심 본질을 정확히 꿰뚫는다
저널리즘적 가치와 국제 사회의 과제
알자지라의 이번 탐사보도는 잠입 취재라는 위험한 방식을 통해 단순한 정황 증거를 넘어 내부자들의 실제 진술과 금융 거래 경로를 확보했다는 점에서 저널리즘적 가치가 매우 높다
추가적인 분석이나 다른 형식의 리포트 작성이 필요하시면 언제든 말씀해 주십시오. 세진님께서 원하시는 방향에 맞추어 신속하고 정확하게 보완해 드리겠습니다.
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