Suggested lead: With global attention focused on Iran, the ongoing violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank risks fading from view. As during last year’s Iran war, there is concern: this shift in focus will again allow Israeli settlers to escalate their attacks. Meanwhile, the Israeli army is further restricting movement by installing new iron gates in areas where none previously existed. Our report begins in Qaryut, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. A Warning: some of the images in this report may be disturbing.

Lower thirds:
0:03  Report by / Fanny Facsar
1:26  Bashar AlQaryouti / Eyewitness
3:02  Fanny Facsar / Senior International Correspondent, Ramallah, occupied West Bank
3:46  Hassan Zaban / Deputy Mayor Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya
4:48  Mohammed Shatara / Baker
5:34  Dr. Samer Abdel Razzaq / Hospital director H-clinic 
6:40  Taha Muamma

Script:
This grave was dug just a few days after Israel began its war against Iran. 
Two brothers, Muhammad and Fahim Muammar are buried here. 
Their picture is all her mother has left to hold on to. Her grief says more than words ever could.
SOT mother [crying] “My dearests, my dearests, my dearests… may God bless you and that my heart shall be in peace. Heaven and earth should bless you [Arabic]
This footage shows the moments before a fatal attack in Qaryut on March 2, where several armed settlers opened fire. Israeli’s rights group B’Tselem says the brothers were killed by settler gunfire. IDF said the shooter was an “active reservist”. And they told DW “the incident is currently under investigation”.  
Bashar AlQaryouti witnessed how the attack unfolded. 
NO name insert here! “Mohammed stood here. While the settlers attacked the house where the kids are. He wanted to protect the house. And they killed him right here.” [Arabic]
Traces of blood: marking the horror. Bashar says, Mohammed’s brother was killed while he tried to save his sibling Fahim.
SOT Bashar AlQaryouti, eyewitness [Arabic] “It is one of the hardest moments that we have experienced. That people are being killed in their own homes while they were defending their kids, women and their families. This is a catastrophe” 
Qaryut is a small village, surrounded by settlements. Several outposts were established shortly after the war with Iran began. Both are regarded illegal under international law.
Settlers have begun paving this road. 
A white car arrives as we film. 
SOT Bashar AlQaryouti “Please inform the authorities that settlers are coming near” [Arabic]
On the phone (response, Palestinian security) “Send me your location and images” [Arabic]
SOT Bashar “Ok, enshallah”
The settlers leave this time, but for Palestinians here the pressure is intensifying.
Bashar Qarjuti “We live in fear, in worry, we are always under alert in this region. We are confronted with problems every single day”
Qaryut is only one of dozens of communities that ((is)) has been affected by an escalation of settler violence in the first few days of the Iran war. 
On March 7th another Palestinian man was executed at close range in the Hebron hills. And on March 8th two Palestinians were killed during violent clashes with Israeli settlers in a village near Ramallah. A third Palestinian died from suffocation, likely from tear gas according to the Israeli military.
We are headed to Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya near Ramallah. Along the road, countless Israeli flags have been raised, symbolizing Israel’s claim to a route running through occupied territory.
At the beginning of the latest Iran war, Israel enforced a total military closure across the West Bank, practically putting Palestinians under lockdown.
This iron gate was installed only a few days ago at Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya (A VILLAGE NEAR...?). Hundreds of barriers were installed during the past two years alone. 
PTC Fanny Facsar, (in car while driving, English) “Israel says these measures are allegedly necessary for security. Palestinians and human right organizations see it as another way to tighten control under the shadow of the ongoing war in Iran.”
Just like other villages, Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya faces growing settler pressure and land seizures. Palestinians, who once harvested olives here can no longer access their land. New settler outposts have been built on these hilltops. 
We meet the deputy mayor here, who tells says, that while the war in Iran continues, Israel is creating new facts here on the ground.
SOT Hassan Zaban, Deputy Mayor Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya [Arabic]
“This is a very aggressive campaign ((that)) we are witnessing now, ((that)) one we have not seen before. Israel is using the current war situation to accelerate the settlement expansion, to increase the pressure on the people. They have their own plans, and they are working on speeding up the annexation.”
Mohammed Shatara has lived in this village all his life. He says settler violence is just one of many ways Palestinians are being pushed out of their village - another is economic pressure. 
During Ramadan, he usually prepares this popular dessert: Katayef. As he shows me how to make it, he explains that with the new movement restrictions, fewer customers are coming, and those who do visit are spending less.
SOT Mohammed Shatara, baker [Arabic]
“The thing with Iran … it affected the work in the whole West Bank, not only here in Al Mazra. It’s connected to a whole economic cycle. They [Israel] are working on three projects. Not only the war with Iran but hitting the economic system here, destroying the olive trees, because the roots of the trees are the roots of the people and now, they forbid the people to go their land”
Many of his family works in the bakery. During the past two years alone his business dropped by half, he says. Without it, he sees no future. 
“This means everything in my life. It is because of that I can raise the kids, build a house and survive economically and protect my daily bread.” [Arabic]
We visit the nearby major city of Ramallah to see how a local hospital is preparing for more patients amid the Iranian war.
The hospital director explains that there are no proper shelters. The plan is to create a makeshift triage area in this corridor.
Dr. Samer Abdel Razzaq  “Unfortunately, this will be the triage place, where we will be receiving patients. The shelter will be the storage room there. The triage is this area, the corridor for the ambulances. It is usually filled by three ambulances. 00:25
We show him this video of an Israeli underground hospital in Jerusalem, where DW recently filmed. An intensive care unit - prepared for hundreds of patients. 
A striking contrast to the realities Palestinian hospitals face in the occupied West Bank.
Dr. Samer Abdel Razzaq, hospital director H-clinic 
“How unfortunate we are with our situation now. I can’t imagine if a disaster happens nearby where 50 people need to come at once here, what we will do. We will have all our medical person to be here, but on the other hand what medical resources do you have?
Basic medical supplies, like surgical stitches, are already running low at the hospital, a consequence of the broader economic problems in the West Bank. 
The extra oxygen would last for two days if a major emergency occurred, we are told. 
Dr. Samer Abdel Razzaq, hospital director “We are not able to receive all the medication ((that)) we need ((to have)). That is a disaster by itself. If you have zero stock of some of the medication on a national level, this means catastrophe, that in real time you may receive a patient, and you don’t have the medicine to treat that patient. And they may die because of the lack of medicine.
The two Palestinian brothers, who were killed in Qaryut did not have a chance of survival. The ambulances could not evacuate them ((on)) in time because of Israeli roadblocks.
They leave behind 12 children. The youngest: only two. Their grandfather is left with one question:
SOT Taha Muammar “What kind of life is this? It’s not safe, neither safe at home, nor safe for the kids, nor at work, nowhere” (Arabic)
The solace he wants to hold on to, that his sons were taken during the holiest month: Ramdan. SOT “May their soul rest in peace. And bring them into paradise.” (Arabic)
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