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00:00:01Uprooting olive trees
00:00:01suffering, in starvation, under the pretext that they are
00:00:04military zones and security zones.
00:00:06Yes, yes, Mr. Salah, in This was not as it was in
00:00:09previous years. Only this year,
00:00:1355 decisions were implemented in
00:00:16the West Bank areas. We are talking about every decision, for example, in
00:00:20attacking a village like the town of Al-Mughayyir, in less than
00:00:25in the Palestinian West Bank 72 hours, then a military decision was taken to uproot
00:00:27Please give us more olive trees and all plants.
00:00:30The land for security and military considerations. In 72
00:00:33hours, 10,572
00:00:37olive trees were uprooted in this village, which owned
00:00:4143 dunams since 1967 until
00:00:44before Smotrich's government. Today, less than 1
00:00:48dunam will remain for the village. Another village
00:00:51like Umm Safa village in the northwest of Ramallah.
00:00:55This village is surrounded by settlements
00:00:58and outposts. And the road linking the settlements
00:01:01is completely closed from the east and west by military
00:01:05gates. The residents of this village, whose population
00:01:09and people is 700 people,
00:01:11owned 4,700 dunams. Today, what
00:01:15remains for these families is only 100 dunams,
00:01:19kill the dream of the Palestinian people for meaning that the smallest
00:01:20is directly in feudal estate in the past decades for any
00:01:23Palestinian owns more than that, as you mentioned in the report in Deir Abu
00:01:27Mash'al. Therefore, when we organized this campaign and started
00:01:31the first confrontation to break the occupation's
00:01:35consuls flocked to decision not to allow farmers to reach their lands in Deir
00:01:38Bazi' village, we were able to reach
00:01:41vast lands, more than 4,000
00:01:44dunams, and there were
00:01:46of this coalition, violent confrontations with
00:01:48did not stop at the settlers and the army. As mentioned in your report, on the following day, last Saturday,
00:01:51we organized a wide campaign
00:01:55through a large number in which dozens of farmers, peasants, landowners
00:01:58and activists participated, as well as
00:02:02international solidarity activists. We, in the Wall Resistance Committee,
00:02:05considered that we must break the settlers' decision
00:02:08to prevent farmers from reaching their lands.
00:02:12And when we talk about an area only in the
00:02:15southern
00:02:18part, approximately 3,000 dunams, yes,
00:02:21we will continue, God willing, through the following
00:02:24questions to shed more light on
00:02:28tightening the noose on all these attacks. And the real
00:02:31goal Mr. Hamadeh, two
00:02:34days ago, you wrote under
00:02:36Therefore, they worked in the title "The Uprising of the Palestinian Olive" and you said
00:02:41the cities. Exactly. that you described the countryside and are working in it precisely, a large part of it is what
00:02:45Mr. Salah expressed,
00:02:47and Mr. Hamadeh Faraneh. This and you said that this is not just mere
00:02:50attempts and
00:02:54not leave despite if there is harm in it, this is a planned and prepared
00:02:58fascist movements in thing. is that
00:03:02there is a methodology working within a prepared program
00:03:05whose goal
00:03:07is to oppress
00:03:10people in order
00:03:13to displace them, in order to weaken the relationship
00:03:17with the land,
00:03:19call it what you want. What is the prepared
00:03:23program that you wanted to refer to? Thank you.
00:03:27the details. At First, honestly, all respect to Mr. Salah. What
00:03:30he represents and through him to all the Palestinian people
00:03:33in all places of their presence on Palestinian land, whether
00:03:37in the 1948 areas or the
00:03:39and clarity. At 1967 areas. Honestly, I want to thank you
00:03:42for trying to cover this topic that he mentioned and
00:03:50compared to of the Palestinian people were in that you mentioned. Let us all stand on a clear and practical political ground, yes. This
00:03:54ruling team in the Israeli
00:03:57news. At colonial entity is committed West Bank. In to two issues. First,
00:04:00considering the title of the program
00:04:03that unified Jerusalem is the capital of the Israeli
00:04:06colonial entity, there is a consensus
00:04:10among all parties, forces, and apparatuses of
00:04:13the Israeli colonizer that
00:04:16and their role in unified Jerusalem is the capital of the Israeli colonizer. Second, that the Palestinian
00:04:19West Bank is not Jordanian, not
00:04:22Palestinian, not Arab, not occupied, but rather it is Judea
00:04:26and Samaria, meaning a part of the map of the Israeli colonial entity, yes, exactly.
00:04:30And for that reason, now the plan has been approved, as Mr.
00:04:34first occupation areas in 1948 are Salah mentioned, by name. The Smotrich plan
00:04:37has been approved, the plan
00:04:40for decisive action, which is based on three
00:04:44points, three stages. The first
00:04:46stage is to end the liquidation,
00:04:49purification, and cleansing
00:04:53of Palestinians. Yes, no housing, no
00:04:56agriculture, no investment, etc., in
00:05:01or or construction in the Palestinian countryside, which is 62%
00:05:04of the area of
00:05:06is happening now in the Palestinian West Bank, yes. And they succeeded and did
00:05:11similarity in
00:05:11he stated that these pastoral outposts a lot for ending the popular
00:05:13presence of nomadic Bedouins or farmers,
00:05:17their shacks, their farms, etc. So they achieved
00:05:21relatively the first goal, which is
00:05:24ending the Palestinian presence in the Palestinian countryside,
00:05:28and they moved to the second stage, which is
00:05:33Palestinian villages. And this is what
00:05:35explains that the attack now on Palestinian villages
00:05:39started from Tel and all Palestinian villages, without
00:05:43displacing Palestinian villages to the cities, yes.
00:05:46And thus there will be Palestinian
00:05:49gatherings only confined to cities,
00:05:52because they failed strategically. The Israeli expansionist colonial
00:05:56project failed strategically in expelling
00:06:00all the Palestinian people, yes. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is based on
00:06:03two terms, no third: land and people.
00:06:07They managed to occupy the entire map of Palestine, but they failed
00:06:11strategically in expelling all the Palestinian people.
00:06:15And for that reason, Smotrich's plan
00:06:17came in response to the failure of the Israeli
00:06:21expansionist colonial project to expel all the Palestinian people.
00:06:24From here, they started with the countryside, yes, and they finished almost and
00:06:28moved to the villages. Now the conflict
00:06:33the villages. The failure in their attack on the villages is due to
00:06:36two factors: The first factor is that the people
00:06:39of the villages persevered, and second, that the
00:06:42heads of missions, ambassadors, and European
00:06:47the villages and witnessed many sites
00:06:51and clashes, and so on. This created a direct embarrassment
00:06:54and direct clash with the Israeli colonial entity, in addition
00:06:58to the crimes that occurred in the Gaza
00:07:01Strip. Therefore, today
00:07:04the conflict over Palestinian
00:07:07olives, as a source of livelihood,
00:07:11as a source of life, as
00:07:14a realization of
00:07:17the benefit
00:07:19and services of Palestinian farmers.
00:07:22Therefore, today, when we examine the Palestinian
00:07:25Authority, there is confiscation of its funds,
00:07:29five billion and 200 million dollars of Palestinian
00:07:32Authority funds confiscated by the Ministry of Finance, by Smotrich's
00:07:35ministry. Consequently, the second issue is
00:07:40livelihood, and the source and life
00:07:44for Palestinians, to make the Palestinian land a repellent for its people.
00:07:50the villages, reaching
00:07:54It is striking, sir, that you pointed out that the countryside
00:07:57then the villages, the countryside, meaning that there are no
00:08:00inhabitants, and this was known, meaning
00:08:03the pastoral colonialism.
00:08:06Well, perhaps if I address this point
00:08:10to Mr. Salah. Regarding
00:08:13the villages and the olive groves, as they are called in
00:08:16Palestine,
00:08:20which are the villages that
00:08:22are subjected more to these
00:08:26attacks, assuming that the plan
00:08:30will lead us to the displacement of the
00:08:33villagers, as Mr. Hamadeh also indicated,
00:08:36towards the cities, perhaps this gives
00:08:40an indication, and you, in the field, see this picture
00:08:43clearly.
00:08:49First, we must remind everyone
00:08:52and speak with numbers. From 1967
00:08:55until 1989, two-thirds
00:09:00rural areas. After 1989 until today,
00:09:03more than two-thirds of the Palestinian people are in the main
00:09:07cities, which are called Area A
00:09:10in numbers. On the other hand, from
00:09:131967 until 2022, the average
00:09:16construction was seven settlements per
00:09:19full year, and the structural plans
00:09:22of the settlements occupied approximately 8% of the
00:09:26Palestinian West Bank lands from 1967 until
00:09:292022, in addition to approximately
00:09:3211% behind the wall after the construction of the apartheid
00:09:35wall. Today, under Smotrich's
00:09:38government, and Ben-Gvir and Netanyahu, because it is a government that implements
00:09:42a plan announced in 2018, for example,
00:09:45Smotrich's plan, which is known as the
00:09:48decisive action plan and control over empty
00:09:51lands without inhabitants and strengthening
00:09:54operations, meaning a policy that establishes
00:09:58a process of mass displacement of Palestinian
00:10:01villages and towns. What happened during the four
00:10:04years is the recognition of 104 settlements in
00:10:07the Palestinian West Bank in less than four years,
00:10:11and approximately 352
00:10:14pastoral settlement outposts were built in the Palestinian West Bank. According
00:10:18to the Minister of Agriculture in the occupation government,
00:10:23in the four years were able to control
00:10:27more than 25% of the Palestinian West Bank lands, approximately
00:10:31three times what was occupied and controlled since
00:10:341967 until 2022. And if there
00:10:37is talk about seven settlements on average annually,
00:10:41it has quadrupled in the last four
00:10:44years, considering that only 104 settlements
00:10:50have been recognized, in addition to the pastoral outposts.
00:10:53This, perhaps,
00:10:57is not just within the framework of a plan,
00:10:59I mean, the numbers. This can remind us that the dream
00:11:03of the Zionist movement began with the start of the occupation in 1948, and
00:11:07then in 1967. The world remained silent
00:11:10about imposing what is called Israeli sovereignty over
00:11:14an area larger than what was declared at the United
00:11:17Nations, from 45% of historical Palestine to
00:11:2078% of historical Palestine, and the international
00:11:24community did nothing. In 1967,
00:11:27a UN resolution for a temporary military
00:11:30occupation was extracted. But what happened since the declaration in
00:11:341967 was the first project, the Allon Plan, which was announced
00:11:38officially at the beginning of 1968. The Allon
00:11:41Plan aimed to
00:11:44a state, and the Allon Plan
00:11:48aimed to turn the occupied lands after 1967 into seven
00:11:51cantons, isolating the Gaza Strip as a separate canton from the West
00:11:55Bank. Annexing Jerusalem and controlling it and considering it part of what is called Israeli
00:11:59sovereignty. Annexing or isolating the Jordan Valley, which constitutes
00:12:0329% of the West Bank lands from the rest of the West
00:12:06Bank cities and transforming the remainder into cantons. Despite
00:12:10that, this project
00:12:13declaration, but rather began with practical steps. The first displacement
00:12:16operation was in 1967 for the Maghariba
00:12:19Quarter in Jerusalem, and the international community did not
00:12:22act, and there was no position even from Arab countries.
00:12:28And the first Judaization operation was when Al-Aqsa Mosque in
00:12:31Jerusalem was burned. Therefore, since 1967 until
00:12:35today, there is a department in the army
00:12:38planning to develop the Allon Plan from seven
00:12:41cantons to transforming the West Bank into 176 separated
00:12:45and isolated cantons. Okay, I will continue with
00:12:48you in a moment, but we have a short
00:12:52break, and we will continue the discussion with you, God willing,
00:13:12program
00:16:02Welcome back, dear viewers. I continue
00:16:05my conversation with my guests. The program guest, Mr.
00:16:09Salah Al-Khawaja, Assistant Director of the Wall and Settlement Resistance
00:16:13Commission, and Mr. Hamadeh Faraneh,
00:16:16political analyst and writer.
00:16:19We stopped at an important
00:16:22point, which Mr. Salah referred
00:16:25to, and you also referred to
00:16:28it. When we talk
00:16:31about a form of genocide,
00:16:34and you even mentioned in the article that
00:16:38what is required is to
00:16:42eliminate trees and stones
00:16:46in the West Bank. There was
00:16:49a described form of genocide, as we saw in
00:16:52Gaza. Some say that this is also a form
00:16:56of genocide. Please shed light on this
00:16:59equation. Yes,
00:17:03in fact, as I said, politically,
00:17:06it is not a hostile
00:17:09description as a Jordanian, as an Arab, as a Muslim,
00:17:12as a human being biased towards the Palestinian people's
00:17:16cause, but rather through a professional reading, yes,
00:17:20of this government,
00:17:23of this behavior in dealing with the Palestinian
00:17:26people, because, as I said, they failed
00:17:29strategically in expelling all the Palestinian people. Four
00:17:32months ago, the statistics showed that the number
00:17:35of Palestinian people across the entire map of Palestine was 7.4
00:17:39million. Therefore, the fundamental, provocative question is: Can
00:17:42a Jewish state be established across the entire map of Palestine with
00:17:45more than 7 million Palestinian Arabs
00:17:48on it? Therefore, what they did in the Gaza
00:17:51Strip was not only targeting the Palestinian
00:17:54resistance. They targeted people, yes.
00:17:57Therefore, if the October 7
00:17:59operation was unprecedented and killed
00:18:031,200 Israelis and captured 251
00:18:06Israelis, but the Israeli response
00:18:10was unprecedented, killing tens
00:18:13of thousands and injuring many
00:18:16times that number, and destroying the Gaza Strip to make it truly
00:18:19uninhabitable. However,
00:18:23there are two factors that we must remember in the Gaza
00:18:27Strip. The first factor is that the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip did
00:18:32all the circumstances they lived in. And also,
00:18:36honestly, all respect to the Egyptian position, which also did not
00:18:39allow that. But the second factor is that those who registered after
00:18:43October 10, 2025,
00:18:46for a ceasefire, those who registered with Egyptian security
00:18:49to return to the Gaza Strip were 82,000, yes.
00:18:53Yes, to the extent that the Israeli occupier, the occupation
00:18:56authorities, used to allow 100, 15,000 to
00:18:59100, 150 Palestinian
00:19:02citizens every day. So the Israelis would ask, "Where
00:19:05are you going? Destruction, devastation, etc." And they would say, "I'm coming
00:19:08back to my country," yes. So those who registered
00:19:11were 80,000, despite them seeing it like
00:19:14me and you, and perhaps Brother Salah knows
00:19:16more than me. Yet,
00:19:1982,000 registered. Therefore, this steadfastness in
00:19:23the Gaza Strip is truly amazing,
00:19:28the crimes that have been committed. Now,
00:19:31they have moved to the Palestinian the Palestinian West Bank, what
00:19:35the settlers and the occupation army are doing,
00:19:39and there is similarity in behavior
00:19:42and position between the occupation army and its security
00:19:46apparatuses and the settlers. Now, the settlers
00:19:49are carrying out a process of purification,
00:19:52a process of killing, a process of destruction, etc.
00:19:56As if to say that they are the
00:19:59Zionist-Israeli-Jewish resistance
00:20:03in confrontation with the Palestinian
00:20:05foreigners on their land, yes. Therefore, what they are doing in the West Bank
00:20:09targets people and destroys life
00:20:13to make the Palestinian West Bank, as happened in the Gaza
00:20:16Strip, uninhabitable.
00:20:19Therefore, they are tightening the noose
00:20:22and life on Palestinians, as I said. Now, regarding
00:20:26olives, it is a matter of income, a matter of providing needs,
00:20:30and as I also said, even for the Palestinian Authority, we record
00:20:33observations, we agree with them, we disagree with them, but its
00:20:37money is confiscated, which reached 5 billion.
00:20:40Therefore, what
00:20:44the occupied Palestinian territories since 1967, there is
00:20:48confrontation, in
00:20:51in killing, as happened in the Gaza Strip.
00:20:56this context, you mentioned that you are carrying
00:21:00out campaigns to help people
00:21:04reach their lands, and you undoubtedly
00:21:07face confrontations with the Israeli
00:21:11army and also with
00:21:14settlers.
00:21:17details about what you are doing
00:21:21as part of, first, the authority that you
00:21:24are its assistant director,
00:21:27and also the citizens and other
00:21:30popular bodies in supporting
00:21:33farmers to
00:21:35confront these attacks and this organized
00:21:39campaign.
00:21:41We consider that we have a major responsibility to break
00:21:45the barrier of fear and to break the
00:21:47settlement decision in the process of what is called imposing
00:21:51C. Therefore, we organized the campaign with the participation of all
00:21:54segments of Palestinian society, and every year
00:21:57we consider this part of our national responsibility. It is not
00:22:01required of us to tell the farmer: Go, you and your Lord, and fight.
00:22:05We must be a support and a helper and a supporter
00:22:08for farmers and peasants, and we must participate.
00:22:12This was the history of Palestine in terms of assistance and solidarity
00:22:14and strengthening the Palestinian role in confronting
00:22:18the occupation. We choose the most dangerous
00:22:21sites and the most exposed
00:22:24to violations, attacks, and crimes of the occupation. Therefore,
00:22:28we started in the village of Deir Bazi' and Deir Abu Mash'al, and on
00:22:32Thursday, it will be in the area northwest of Jerusalem in the village of Beit Anan.
00:22:35We have a comprehensive program that will last for more than
00:22:3940 days with the participation of dozens of solidarity activists. We
00:22:42mobilized this year
00:22:45of friends and civil society organizations with hundreds
00:22:49of solidarity activists. Some organizations registered
00:22:53more than 2,500 solidarity activists to participate
00:22:56in Palestine, but Israel prevented a large number, and only
00:22:59a few, I mean,
00:23:02hundreds will be able to reach. Note that most
00:23:06activists were prevented from entering the occupied
00:23:08territories to participate in this campaign.
00:23:12We consider that this campaign is part of a program that integrates
00:23:16some issues and programs and issues
00:23:20to provide for the needs of farmers to pick olives
00:23:23as quickly as possible, whether through the use of electric
00:23:27machines and others. This is considered part
00:23:31of our attempts to break the occupation's decision
00:23:34and the leadership of the occupation government, and they are
00:23:37a settlers' government. When we talk about Smotrich,
00:23:41Ben-Gvir, and Netanyahu, and they
00:23:43are founding leaders of racist,
00:23:48the West Bank territories, and Ben-Gvir always
00:23:51talks and boasts that before his government
00:23:54and the coalition government, there were
00:23:5747 early warning networks in the Palestinian
00:24:00West Bank. Today, there are 1,052
00:24:03early warning networks from the settlers. Each network has
00:24:07dozens of settlers, and they receive direct support from the government
00:24:11and the regional councils of the settlements. Their main goal is the process
00:24:14of settlement, as mentioned by Brother Hamadeh, regarding
00:24:18the control operations in Area C. Since October 7 until
00:24:21today, more than 108 Bedouin
00:24:25communities in the West Bank areas have been partially
00:24:28and fully displaced, and today there is targeting of villages and towns adjacent
00:24:32to settlements and colonies. Okay, yes, Professor
00:24:36Hamadeh, I have a question
00:24:39related to what Professor Salah spoke about
00:24:41concerning solidarity activists. I want to ask you about
00:24:45the vitality of Palestinian
00:24:48Arabs within
00:24:50Israel.
00:24:53Can these people also constitute
00:24:56supporters for such campaigns? Can they,
00:24:59for example, and perhaps I
00:25:03also ask you about the members of parliament
00:25:06the elections, meaning if they can
00:25:09make a difference, but the important thing is this: to what extent
00:25:13do you think they are capable of doing something? Something
00:25:17for sure. Firstly, 20%
00:25:21of the residents of the
00:25:24Palestinians, yes. And
00:25:2817% of Israeli voters are Palestinians, yes.
00:25:32Therefore, these people
00:25:35can play a role in this field.
00:25:39And we must remember two roles. In
00:25:421992-1996, the Democratic Front
00:25:45for Peace and Equality allied with Yitzhak
00:25:48Rabin.
00:25:51To approve, and they formed a shield for him to prevent
00:25:55the fall of the government, yes. And also in
00:25:57the government