West Bank Palestinians try to save their homes from Israeli extremists | PBS NewsHour
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Sarit Michaeli, B’Tselem:
The West Bank is an area under Israeli occupation. And this means that Israel is obligated to protect the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank. But what Israel is doing is the exact opposite. And, very often, the government agents like soldiers and police are actually actively involved in this forceful transfer. This is a war crime.
Leila Molana-Allen:
What is your evidence that the Israeli government, the Israeli military has been directly complicit?
Sarit Michaeli:
When you see settlers and soldiers rampaging through communities together, when the Israeli security forces, the army, the police, stand by and sometimes support these forcible transfer acts, it’s not just the actions of these crazy individual criminals.
Settler violence is a major informal tool that Israel uses to take over Palestinian land in the West Bank.