How to Steal a City | Hebron: Battle for the West Bank

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In Hebron, one of the most contested regions in the West Bank, Israeli settlements sit in the heart of a Palestinian city. Get an exclusive 15% off Saily data plans: use code tieranfreedman at checkout. Download the Saily app or visit https://saily.com/tieranfreedman Hebron is being taken over piece by piece. Israeli soldiers patrol its streets, checkpoints divide Palestinian neighbourhoods, and daily life is shaped by one of the most complex and controversial realities of the Israel-Palestine conflict. In this documentary, I travelled to Hebron at the end of 2022 to understand how this happened. From the 1929 Palestinian riots and the end of the historic Jewish community in Hebron, to the rise of the modern Israeli settlement movement and the founding of Kiryat Arba, the first Israeli settlement beside the city, I explore how Hebron was shaped by the Oslo Accords, Israeli military occupation, and the divisions between H1 and H2. This film traces the history that turned Hebron into a microcosm of the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As I travelled alone through the occupied West Bank by bicycle, I met Palestinian activists from Youth Against Settlements, moved through Israeli settler areas under military protection, and witnessed the realities faced by both communities living side by side under entirely different legal systems: Israeli civil law for settlers and Israeli military law for Palestinians. While this is the story of Hebron, it has also been repeated in different forms across the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank. Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TieranFreedman/ 00:00 Hebron: Israeli Settlements Inside a Palestinian City 01:40 Entering Hebron | A Microcosm of the Israel Palestine Conflict 02:46 Inside Hebron’s Old City Market | Daily Life in Palestine 04:03 Israeli Military Base in Hebron | Entering the H2 Settler Zone 05:14 Settlers Living Above Palestinian Homes | Hebron’s Segregated Streets 06:20 H1 vs H2 Explained | How Hebron is Divided 07:35 Tensions in Hebron | Hamas, Settlers and Security 08:21 Meeting Youth Against Settlements | Palestinian Activism in Hebron 11:29 SPONSOR SEGMENT: SAILY 12:41 Inside Youth Against Settlements | Arrests and Activism in Hebron 13:52 The Cave of the Patriarchs | Why Hebron Is Holy to Jews and Muslims 15:57 The 1929 Hebron Massacre | Violence in British Palestine 18:22 Aftermath of the 1929 Palestinian Riots | Israel’s Creation and the Palestinian Nakba 20:02 Kiryat Arba and the Birth of the Israeli Settler Movement 23:31 Shuhada Street | Hebron’s Closed Palestinian Market 24:57 Confrontation With an Israeli Settler in Hebron 26:42 Settler Violence in Hebron 27:23 The Oslo Accords | The Peace Process That Shaped Hebron 29:27 The 1994 Hebron Mosque Massacre | Baruch Goldstein Attack 31:29 Extremism Inside the Settler Movement 34:08 Inside the Divided Ibrahimi Mosque | Mosque and Synagogue at the Cave of the Patriarchs 36:50 The Hebron Protocol | Why the City Is Divided Today 37:52 Life Inside H2 | Living Under Israeli Military Rule 39:36 Checkpoints and Restrictions for Palestinians in Hebron 41:56 Israeli Military Raids on Peaceful Palestinian Activists 44:09 Two Legal Systems in the West Bank | Military Law vs Civil Law 47:05 Restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank 50:44 Walking Through Israeli Settlements in Hebron 54:08 Clashes Between Israeli Soldiers and Palestinians 56:07 Supporting the Channel on Patreon | patreon.com/TieranFreedman 56:32 Hebron | Settler Expansion and the Future of Palestine #hebron #westbank #israelpalestine #occupiedpalestine #documentary