BBC World Service, Sep 2, 2024

Since Hamas militants killed around 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October 2023, extremist Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank are increasingly using violence to seize land and property which is forcing many Palestinians from their homes.

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“Settlements Above the Law” a new film from the #BBCEye Investigations team, reveals how these settlers are establishing a new type of illegal settlement known as a “herding outpost”, giving them access to huge areas of land. These and other outposts don’t have government approval and are illegal under Israeli law.

We have independently verified the location of 196 outposts established in the occupied West Bank, almost half of them built in the past five years alone.

For over six months, the BBC team have been following extremist settlers who have set up herding outposts. Some have been sanctioned by the UK and US governments for forcing Palestinians from their homes as part of a “campaign of violence and intimidation”. We show the human impact of their actions on the Palestinian communities living on the frontline of their outposts.

Link to letter from Eden Levi’s lawyer: https://bbc.in/3Xk0q8b

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00:00 Settlements above the law
01:25 Forced to leave home
04:57 Moshe Sharvit: The settler
06:06 West Bank settlements – a history
07:55 Qarawat Bani Hassan
12:17 Settlements vs outposts
17:07 The violence behind herding settlements
18:34 Hiking to intimidate?
20:41 Expansion of outposts
22:18 The shooting
29:11 IDF’s failure to stop outpost violence
36:54 The role of the Palestinian Authority
39:44 Moshe Sharvit’s farm
41:55 High-level support for herding outposts
49:41 Eyes on the Gaza Strip
51:55 British sanctions on settlers
52:55 Waiting for justice
54:20 Confronting Moshe Sharvit
55:06 Ayesha and Nabil attempt to get their home back