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00:03 Report / Emily Gordine
00:57 Yuval Abraham / Activist and Academy Award winner
01:34 Basel Adra / Activist and Academy Award winner
02:06 Sarit Michaeli / B’Tselem human rights group

Script:

+++ Confrontation with IDF soldier +++

SOT Israeli soldier:  
“There is no passage of this crossroad.”  
“Why not?” 
“Because I have here a warrant that gives me the authority to not allow passage today in this crossroad.” 
“But why?” 
“But what’s the reason? I invited journalists to my home. What’s the reason?” 
“To keep the order in this area.” 

+++ SOT Basel Adra, Activist and Academy Award winner +++
“Why you didn’t prevent the settlers when they come to burn the homes inside, the cars and attacking people? ((Why you don’t come to do this order?)) Why only for journalists who are only holding a camera and phones?
  
Soldiers stop us from visiting the Palestinian village of Khallet a-Dabe’ in the south of the West Bank. 

The Israeli army, it seems, doesn’t want us to see what’s happening there. 

This is Area C of the Palestinian West Bank that Israel occupies - against international law.

+++ Oscar winners at the blockade +++
Film directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham won an Oscar for the movie No Other Land, that they made in this area.  

+++SOT Yuval Abraham Activist and Academy Award winner +++
We wanted to show you what the settlers are doing. The settlers are now there. They are free. The journalists are not free. People who want to see them are not free. 

The settler attacks they portrayed in the film continue in villages like Khalet a-Dabeh.

The Israeli military has full control over this area. 

For decades, it’s been at the heart of the country’s illegal annexation efforts. 

((Activist footage))  
This video taken by activists shows the demolition carried out  by Israel’s army in May. 
When their houses were torn down, many locals moved into traditional Bedouin caves nearby. 

But settlers found them.  

((start with him; move to activist footage))  
SOT Basel Adra, Activist and Academy Award winner:  
“Last week, settlers came and kicked one of the families out of their cave. A cave that they are living inside. They occupied it, created an outpost in it, bringing like a few hundred of sheep, goats and camels and started to graze them in people’s gardens in the fields in the olive trees and the grapes. Hundreds of those trees got destroyed in the last week.”  

Residents of Khalet a-Dabeh as well as activists say the Israeli military has been complicit in the destruction of their village.  

SOT Sarit Michaeli, B’Tselem, human rights group:  
it's crucial to stress none of this is the initiative of individual settlers or some sort of action that they're taking independently. They are getting full support from the Israeli authorities, full support from all echelons of the Israeli government and from the army. 
// Israel designated this a firing zone, which means it does not recognize the fact that the Palestinian residents of this area have any right to be there. 

The Israel Defense Forces told DW the village was built within a military firing zone, making it illegal, and that entry into such zones was forbidden.

And yet Palestinians have lived here since long before the area was designated a firing zone. 

Israeli settlers have moved here illegally, displacing the Palestinian community. Neither the Israeli army or police forces have stopped them. 
Residents and activists alike fear that the ultimate aim is  to erase the entire community.