Abby Martin goes on-the-ground to the epicenters of state-backed settler terrorism in Palestine’s West Bank, in Part II of her report on illegal Israeli settlements.

Israel’s massive expansion of illegal settlements, built on stolen land and demolished Palestinian homes, is advanced by extreme violence from both the state forces and the settlers.

But the attacks on innocent Palestinians by Israeli settlers goes far beyond fists and rocks.

This installment visits both the rural countryside of Duma—interviewing the surviving members of the Dawabsheh family, victims of a horrific arson attack that left three dead—and the urban center of Hebron, a glaring example of Israeli apartheid under intense military occupation.

Inside the Hotbeds of Israeli Settler Terror

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In the past 10 years, the Israeli government has seized and demolished over 1,100 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, leaving over 5,000 people homeless––half of them children.

Enjoying total impunity with the protection of the US Empire, home demolitions by Israel in the West Bank has hit a ten-year high.

Over 200 homes have been demolished in 2016 alone, leaving 800 people homeless––400 of them children. Many hundreds more have orders to evacuate their homes and businesses for demolition.

While this activity led by the fanatical settler movement is illegal under international law, it is completely aided and abetted by the Israeli government.

With hundreds on notice to be evicted and their homes destroyed, Abby Martin goes on-the-ground throughout the West Bank investigating this dire human rights situation. She speaks to residents living under regular settler attacks from encroaching settlements and outposts illegal even under Israeli law, and sees first-hand how this crisis is worsening.

 

Home Demolitions for Illegal Settlements Surging

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WATCH PART II // Inside the Hotbeds of Israeli Settler Terror

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If you’re in need of information to help make your decision for election day, or if you just need a detox from the corporate media circus, here is a list of all election coverage on The Empire Files.

Help combat the US Empire’s election propaganda with a dose of reality with Abby Martin.

– Interview with socialist presidential candidate Gloria La Riva

– Interview with Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein

– Documentary on Hillary Clinton and her rise to wealth and power

– Documentary on John Podesta and the Wikileaks revelations

– Noam Chomsky explains how both parties have moved far to the right of the political spectrum

– Ralph Nader discusses how the U.S. elections are rigged for banks and corporations

– Kshama Sawant talks about strategies for advancing a progressive program

– Voices protesting outside the first Clinton-Trump debate: Interview compilation and teleSUR snapshot

– Abby Martin’s live response to the second presidential debate

– Progressive panel discussion following the first Democratic primary debate

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A historic gathering is taking place against the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock. Thousands of people, and around 300 Native nations, have gathered to stop Big Oil’s pipeline, which threatens sacred Native grounds and the environment.

To give an eyewitness account of this growing movement, as well as essential historical context, Abby Martin interviews legendary Native leader Dennis Banks. Banks is a founder of of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a leader in the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff and many other actions over five decades.

 

AIM Founder Dennis Banks on Standing Rock & Historical Trauma of Native Genocide

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