How is settler violence shaping life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank?
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It's Consider This, where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, growing settler violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It's been about a week since President Trump announced a, quote, historic breakthrough in peace negotiations in Gaza.
Something a lot of people thought would never happen. It needs to happen, but the fact they've even agreed to it is a real achievable achievement.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking last week at a cabinet meeting at Camp David. In the days since, the roadmap seems to be falling through. And even as the administration works to end one conflict, tensions are growing in the other Israeli-occupied territory. Consider this. President Trump is working to end the war between Israel and Hamas, and some Israeli officials are asking him to address conflict in the West Bank as well, where incidents of Israeli settler violence are increasing. After the break, we'll get a firsthand look at how that is shaping life in the occupied territory.
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We meet Luai Adele, building a cinder block wall around his house. He said he went into debt to build it. But I need the wall to protect my family from settlers and from the Israeli army, he says. From their house, they look directly across a small valley to the next hill, where Jewish settlers have built the outpost of Eviatar, which was recently legalized by the Israeli government. Living next to Eviatar is like living on the front lines of a war, his wife Nejat says. Because, she says, there's no security. Every few days, she says, she discovers a vegetable garden ripped up or a tree chopped down.
Everything is destroyed.
The settlers come and destroy everything, she says. This brutal test of opposing wills, settler versus Palestinian, has literally changed the landscape here in the Palestinian town of Beita. The village is in what is known as Area B, land under Palestinian civil administration, but Israel's security control. Ahmed Dweikat, another resident, reminisces when the hills here were covered with olive trees and plants that were green and flowering.
But now there's nothing here, he says.
The fields around us are yellow with weeds and barren, abandoned by the two Palestinian families who simply moved away under pressure from Eviatar settlers.
But this area was tried.
Dweikot points out a chain of four settlements on the ridge surrounding his town, all expanding since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, forming a chain of Israeli communities that rings beta.
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