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The
horrific events of October 7 and the succeeding war have changed everything
in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For the
residents of Gaza, five months of war has resulted in large scale devastation
and staggering loss of life. In the West Bank too, the determination by the
Israeli government to destroy Hamas and all militant threats has resulted in
more violence and destruction. For
Israeli citizens life as they once knew it has changed forever. Still shocked
and grieving over the attacks by Hamas militants, suspicion and revenge are
boiling over. And fear is everywhere. ABC
Middle East correspondent Allyson Horn has witnessed the change from her home
in Jerusalem. In this week’s episode of Foreign Correspondent, she shows us
life divided inside a region at war. She meets
ordinary Israeli citizens who now carry guns to the shops and who go on night
patrols searching children's playgrounds looking for bombs. She talks to Palestinian
citizens of Israel who say they are now viewed only with
suspicion. In the
West Bank Allyson meets the Palestinian children who play with toy guns and
dream of growing up to be fighters. She interviews a jihadist militant who
admires Hamas and cannot see a world where Palestinians and Jews can live
side by side in peace. And she
waits to hear from her contact inside Gaza who hasn’t responded to her
messages, fearing that he too has been killed in a war that has claimed so
many lives. |
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00:10 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: The Israeli city of
Sderot sits about a kilometre from the border with Gaza. Not many people are
here anymore. There are lots of empty bomb shelters, but not a lot of people.
Hamas stormed Sderot in its ferocious attack on October 7. It was one of the first places militants
reached after breaching the Gaza border. At least 50 people were killed in
this city alone, among the 1200
estimated to have died in the attack. |
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In
the days after, more than 60,000 Israelis were evacuated from places like
this along the Gaza border. Many are
yet to return home. |
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From
a lookout on the outskirts of Sderot you can see right into the occupied
Palestinian territory of Gaza. 253 hostages were taken in there on October 7. |
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You
can see on the horizon there in northern Gaza there are some giant plumes of
smoke. That's a pretty clear sign there's been another air strike. I can hear
the booms, actually. There was one just now. And another. |
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over video: |
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In
the five months of this war, the Israeli military has been in there, hunting
for the hostages, and on a mission to eradicate Hamas, while more than
two million Palestinian civilians have been trapped in the war zone. |
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The
toll of the dead and wounded is staggering. And the shockwaves from October 7
and this war are still being felt. I’ve been reporting here for nearly two
years. But in the last five months, the fear and tension is like nothing I’ve
ever felt before. |
02:14 |
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"Please
do not touch my cameraman." |
02:40 |
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Something
has changed. Wherever you look, grief, anger, and revenge are boiling over.
Attitudes are hardening, and people are being driven further and further
apart. |
02:43 |
Title:
AFTER OCTOBER 7 |
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03:03 |
Driving
to Erez Crossing |
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03:08 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: For now, this is as
close as I can get to Gaza; the Erez Crossing checkpoint. |
03:17 |
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If
you want to go in, you have to go in with the military, and we've tried since
October 7 to make that happen, with no success. |
03:26 |
Allyson
to camera at Erez Crossing. Super: |
In
fact, in phone calls I've had with the military, they've said to me, well, if
we take you in, what's in it for Israel? So while we can't go past this
point, we know that just a few hundred metres that way, there are Palestinian
journalists that every day are risking their lives to tell us what's happening. |
03:34 |
Montage
of reporters, rockets exploding nearby |
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03:53 |
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NOOR
HARAZEEN: The situation is indescribable. We saw… |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Nearly 100 have
already been killed. Some of them I knew. |
04:08 |
Allyson
on phone at roadside |
Another
journalist I’ve worked with in northern Gaza has agreed to do some filming
for us, but he's gone missing. I'm worried he might also be dead. |
04:15 |
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04:36 |
Night.
Driving to Herzliya. Allyson with Ran and Galit in patrol car |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: It’s Monday night.
We’re an hour’s drive north of Gaza, in the city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv,
where I’m riding along with a neighbourhood watch patrol. |
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Teams
like these, made up of regular civilians, deploy across suburban Israeli
streets every night. Since October 7, this patrol has had
hundreds of new volunteers. And there’s been another big change. Now, they go out armed. |
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RAN: We need to keep our eyes always open --
our eyes, our ears. We can't allow ourselves to fall asleep again. ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: Is that what you think happened on October
7? RAN: Absolutely. |
05:15 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Ran Pascal heads the
program. Galit is one of the new recruits. |
05:27 |
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GALIT:
After the 7th October, you don't know who is against who. It's changed me. |
05:35 |
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ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: These suburbs are some of the more secular,
socially progressive parts of Israel. RAN: The park is on the right side… ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: But the sense of security has been
shattered. |
05:46 |
Ran,
Galit, Allyson walk through park |
RAN: So we're looking to see that there are no
bags or a bomb is hidden in the bushes. Okay.
Clear. |
06:00 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: The October 7 attack
has created a fear of Palestinians they’ve rarely felt before. Galit,
if you see a Palestinian walking down the street now, what goes through your
mind? |
06:18 |
Galit
driving |
GALIT: I’m afraid. I don’t know if they want to
live next to me, or if he wants to kill me. There is no trust any more of
them. I cannot see how it’s going to
work. After… when we finish the war. I don’t know. We don’t know what’s going to
be. |
06:29 |
Ran
and Allyson in back seat |
RAN:
We had a fantasy that
maybe one day we could live in peace. But after October 7th, we're not so
sure that we have a real partner potentially for peace one day. And if there
will be peace one day, it will probably take at least two or three
generations. |
06:52 |
Ikea
store |
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07:11 |
Armed
shoppers in store |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: In the months since
the Hamas attack nearly 300,000 Israelis have applied for a gun licence.
That’s up more than 700 per cent from before the war. People
feel like they can’t even go out to the shops without their weapons around. |
09:19 |
Allyson
to camera |
But
this is now part of everyday life here.
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07:36 |
Armed
civilians at food stalls, on streets |
Guns
are now everywhere. |
07:40 |
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07:45 |
Ambulance |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: We were out filming
near Tel Aviv, when I got a report of an attack happening nearby. |
07:56 |
Allyson
to camera near attack |
This
is why Israelis say they need guns, because of incidents like this. |
08:02 |
Paramedics
and military at attack scene |
A
Palestinian from the West Bank stabbed a motorist, then used the stolen car
to ram other civilians. One Israeli
died, and 17 others were injured. You can see there's a
massive military presence here, there's police, there's reservists, but
there's also people in plain clothes walking around with their guns as well;
people who live in these surrounding areas that have taken up arms since
October 7 for this very purpose. |
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08:34 |
Allyson
greets Adi Mansour |
ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: Adi. ADI MANSOUR:
Hi. ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: Nice to meet you. ADI MANSOUR: Nice to see you. |
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ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: Adi Mansour is one of the two million
Palestinian citizens of Israel…Okay.
I just saw the time. We better get going. ADI MANSOUR: Yeah, we have to go. ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: He’s a busy human rights lawyer |
08:50 |
Allyson
and Adi into subway and on to train |
who’s agreed to meet me between cases.
Palestinian citizens of Israel make up a fifth of the country’s population.
Under the law, they have the same rights as other citizens, but Adi says it
often doesn’t feel that way, especially since October 7. |
09:00 |
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How
has life changed for you since October 7? |
09:27 |
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ADI MANSOUR: It’s
basically a lot of work. (laughs.) Things have changed. Things have changed.
At a time when we are witnessing one of the worst wars in Gaza you cannot
talk about this. You cannot protest.
Anything that is outside the mainstream idea of the war, which is an
idea of revenge, is seen as an idea or as an opinion which is against the
state, and you are perceived as a traitor to the state and traitor to
society. |
09:30 |
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ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: Israelis have said to us that they are more
suspicious of Palestinians in Israel now. Is that something that you feel? |
10:03 |
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ADI MANSOUR: One of the interesting things in
the perception of Palestinians in Israel, is a perception of the enemy
within. And this leads to a lot of
ideas which have no basis, of course, that these Palestinians would attack
us, that they want to destroy us. They want to do this. They want to do that.
And ideas such as that lead to a dystopian system where you get arrested, for
example, or you get accused, based on the perception of what you could have
thought, what you could have done. |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: How does that make you
feel? |
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ADI MANSOUR: You
just feel how alienated you are in this country, how unaccepted you are in
this country, and how hatred there is towards you in this country, and that
there is no hope. |
10:45 |
BBC
News report |
NEWS
REPORTER: Israel has intensified its military operations in the south of the
Gaza Strip. The IDF says it's hit more than 400 targets. |
11:02 |
Allyson
looking at Mohammed's footage on laptop |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: It's been days since
I've heard from my journalist friend in Gaza, but at last there's a message.
The fighting has finally stopped long enough to do some filming. He's riding
along with a paramedic inside Northern Gaza. |
11:12 |
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And…
look at this place. It’s so
shocking. I’ve been in these streets
in Gaza before. And the place is just unrecognisable now. |
11:33 |
Mohammed's
Gaza footage |
MOHAMMED:
That bombardment took place three days ago. The streets are full of nails,
rubble, debris, shrapnel, stones. |
11:46 |
Allyson
looking at Mohammed's footage on laptop |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: His name is
Mohammed. He’s a paramedic in Northern
Gaza that stayed there with his family. |
11:58 |
Mohammed's
Gaza footage. Driving through streets |
MOHAMMED: When we were dealing with the first cases,
we were in shock. We were badly affected for days afterwards. But now,
because of the amount of injuries from the massacres and genocide involving
children, women, the elderly, civilians, it has become routine. |
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The
first day was bombing, explosion, missiles, raids. We expected a huge
retaliation from the occupiers against Gaza.
What we did not expect is that they would attack civilians. |
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The
scenes that we are seeing make you cry. I don’t recognise Gaza anymore. It’s hard to find your house in the
rubble. Up to 70 per cent of houses
can’t be identified by their owners because of debris and destruction. |
12:52 |
Displaced
families, children |
There
is no food, nothing to drink. There are no vegetables, no fruit. What's getting through to Gaza is getting
bombed or intercepted before it arrives. That's one of the reasons famines
are breaking out in Gaza. |
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The
hardest thing is to see children scavenging food from the garbage. I miss
safety. I miss this sense of safety for my children and family. Not to be
afraid that airstrikes will hit us. That’s the most important thing. |
13:33 |
Driving
through Gaza |
I
believe that what happened was wrong, because it destroyed both sides. Israeli and Palestinian civilians have
nothing to do with this. We ask for peace, we want a two-state solution. Even
in 30 years it would be very difficult to return Gaza back to what it was. |
13:56 |
News
report. Netanyahu with troops |
NEWS
REPORTER: Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will not be satisfied with anything other
than total victory over Hamas. |
14:32 |
Ben-Gvir
attending function |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Benjamin Netanyahu’s
ruling coalition includes members of the extreme right who have used their
platforms as cabinet ministers to openly call for Israel to take control of
Gaza. |
14:41 |
Ben-Gvir
on Israeli TV |
ITAMAR
BEN-GVIR: What can and should be
advanced is an immigration plan, encourage it to be voluntary, of course.
That will allow them to go – HOST:
You’re saying that the army will stay inside Gaza, and voluntarily,
we expel them? And is that feasible? ITAMAR
BEN-GVIR: Udi, of course. If we defeat
them of course it's feasible. |
14:53 |
Right
wing rally |
WOMAN
AT RALLY: We won’t give in! |
15:11 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: And since the war,
the extreme right has been getting bolder and louder in its attacks on
Palestinians. |
15:16 |
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WOMAN
AT RALLY: No aid for the enemy! Just
think about it. Aid to the enemy? This is crazy to hear this! |
15:24 |
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CROWD:
No aid to the enemy! ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: This rally in
Jerusalem is calling on supporters to stop aid getting into Gaza. |
15:38 |
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WOMAN
AT RALLY: Go out from your houses. Stop the humanitarian aid that is reviving
our enemy. |
15:47 |
Flag
carrying right wing woman, Kach logo on jacket |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: In the crowd, we spot
a woman wearing the logo of a political party banned in Israel for inciting
racial hatred against Arabs. |
15:57 |
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What should happen to the people inside Gaza
that aren't associated with Hamas? |
16:06 |
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SHARONA AVRIHAMI: In Gaza, all Gaza, there is
no one who's a good person. I don't care what will happen to them. I really
don't care after what happened after 7 October . If you're going to tell me,
give me a gun, I will go inside and kill all of them. All of them. Even
pregnant woman. |
16:11 |
Man
address rally crowd |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: And they’re angry at
the international criticism of Israel over this war. |
16:33 |
Judy
Eisner at rally |
JUDY
EISNER: You would think that it would become clear who the good guys and who
the bad guys are, and you would think that people would want to stand on the
side of the good guys. |
16:39 |
Man
address rally crowd |
MAN
AT RALLY: Take your anti-Semitic hands off of Israel. Stop, stop being
concerned about our enemies. If you want, if you are so concerned about them,
take them to your countries. Transfer them to you! |
16:46 |
Judy
Eisner at rally |
JUDY
EISNER: Why doesn't the U.N. say every
country take in 50,000 people? That's it. No more Gaza problem. |
17:02 |
News
Report |
NEWS
REPORT: 69 Palestinians have been
killed, and 1300 have been injured by Israeli forces or settlers in the
occupied West Bank since the 7th of October. |
17:12 |
West
Bank separation wall. Drone shots over West Bank settlements |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Gaza is not Israel’s
only front line. This is the West Bank, by far the biggest part of the
occupied Palestinian territory. Home to three million Palestinians under
Israeli military control. |
17:26 |
Soldier's
stop reporter's car and attempt to stop filming |
The
place is on edge. The fear is that the conflict in Gaza could explode here,
too. |
17:49 |
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SOLDIER:
Stop, stop, stop! ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Sorry - you’re allowed
to keep filming, Haidarr. We’re allowed to film here. Keep filming please. |
18:00 |
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We
are allowed to film here, we are allowed to film you. They are the rules that
we sign when we come in to be foreign media in this country. We are allowed to film. So we are, for our safety, we are going to
keep filming for our safety. Moments
like this happen regularly now. |
18:08 |
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Please
do not touch my cameraman. Please do not touch my cameraman. Please do
not touch our equipment. You are now
touching our equipment. |
18:23 |
Driving
to Tulkarem |
We’re
on our way into Tulkarem, one of the most densely populated refugee camps in
the West Bank. Israeli troops have just pulled out after a two-day raid.
Israel has been ramping up military operations against armed militant groups
here. Nearly every day there are raids
on a level I’ve never seen before. |
18:43 |
Allyson
walks with Noureddin |
NOUREDDIN
SHEHADA: Inside the
camp, they destroyed everything. Electricity, houses, streets. You think we
are in the war. |
19:10 |
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ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: Noureddin Shehada is a social worker in
Tulkarem camp. He was born here, and
says Israel’s military operations are more violent and destructive than he’s
ever seen. |
19:19 |
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NOUREDDIN
SHEHADA: This is a phone shop. Why? Why they destroyed this? Why? ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: How did they destroy
it? NOUREDDIN
SHEHADA: By bulldozers. |
19:32 |
Bulldozers
destroying buildings |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Israel says the
bulldozers uncovered dozens of explosive devices planted under these streets.
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19:40 |
Army
images of weapons |
The
army released these images of weapons it says it confiscated here. |
19:48 |
Wall
riddled with bullets. Noureddin and Allyson examine car |
Eight
people were killed in this two-day raid. Israel says all were militants. Palestinians say six were civilians. |
19:55 |
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So
this was a drone strike? NOUREDDIN
SHEHADA: Yes, a drone. |
20:06 |
Allyson
to camera among rubble/Civilians cleaning up destruction |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: It feels like nearly
every single house or shop or home or property here has been damaged in some
way. There's such a sense of shock. But anger here as well. And anger that I feel has been growing since
October 7. These people here say they feel like now they're just being hit
with collective punishment for the actions of Hamas. |
20:13 |
Noureddin
and Allyson on street |
NOUREDDIN
SHEHADA: After 7 October, I don’t know what happened inside Israel. They lose
their mind. The government of Israel, they lose their mind. They want to kill
any Palestinian. They're building a new generation with a big hatred for any
Israelian. |
20:44 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: There’s just rubble
everywhere. NOUREDDIN
SHEHADA: Yeah, everywhere. |
21:00 |
Children
on street with toy guns |
ALLYSON HORN, Reporter: How does it feel when you see these kids
holding toy guns? |
21:06 |
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NOUREDDIN
SHEHADA: I am crying. I am crying. I am very sad. These
children, you be to look for a future for them. Now they are looking for how
we can carry a gun and fight the Israelian. It’s a problem for me. That all
the children, they are playing here in the camp. Some of them as Israelian,
some of them as a fighter. |
21:16 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: So they are playing a game. Palestinians
versus Israelis. NOUREDDIN
SHEHADA: Yes. Versus
Israeli. I am very sad for that. Look – this is how many years? Three years? This is the reason. |
21:38 |
Allyson
at funeral |
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21:58 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: I’ve noticed that
armed militants are now much bolder about showing themselves in public here. |
22:05 |
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This
is the funeral for the people killed in the raid. You’ve got the Palestinian
flag, Islamic jihad; the green flags are Hamas. The West Bank is home to a
multitude of militant groups, large and small. The resistance – as they’re
known – has long had broad support here. And it’s grown since the war. |
22:17 |
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Polling
shows support for Hamas has more than tripled in the West Bank. Three quarters of those polled say Hamas
was right to launch the attack on October 7, and don’t believe Hamas
committed atrocities on that day. |
22:46 |
Driving
to Jenin |
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23:02 |
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I’m on my way the Palestinian city of Jenin in
the northern West Bank. It’s a city that’s pretty well known as a militant
stronghold. I’m going to meet with a Palestinian man who calls himself a
fighter for the Palestinian cause. It’s quite rare for someone like him to
speak with the media, particularly foreign media. And it’s very dangerous at
the moment, because since October 7, men like him have been a big target of
Israel. Both on the ground and in drone strikes in the West Bank. |
23:06 |
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There’s
intense suspicion that outsiders like us could be Israeli infiltrators. With
good reason. Days after we were here, |
23:45 |
Photo
footage of Israeli special forces hospital raid |
Israeli
special forces dressed as doctors and nurses entered Jenin’s hospital, and
shot dead three militants in their beds. |
23:58 |
Allyson
to location to meet militant |
We’re
taken to a secret location, and wait for hours, until finally, he
appears, but keeps his face hidden. |
24:09 |
Interview
with militant |
Who
do you fight with? MILITANT: I belong to the Jerusalem Brigades of
Islamic Jihad, in the Jenin Battalion. |
24:23 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: What do you think of
what Hamas did on October 7? |
24:30 |
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MILITANT: The first feeling was of happiness. When
the attack happened early morning, I was awake. I was surprised. I couldn't believe it. It was like a
dream. We were entering our own land.
I was wishing to be there with them. |
24:35 |
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Personally,
my view is that resistance is the only way. To resist this occupier so that
he leaves my land with this weapon. In Jenin, we are united. We are all brothers. Here, it doesn’t
matter if you belong to Hamas, Jihad, or Fatah. We are all united. Our job is
to fight. |
24:51 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: There have been a lot
of people killed here in Jenin since October 7. Is it worth what you're doing
to have that many people killed? |
25:11 |
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MILITANT: At first, there were three or four armed
people in the street here in Jenin.
People thought it wouldn’t last long, they’d be there for a while and
then leave. As time went on, three armed people turned into a hundred. |
25:24 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Would you support
peace with Israel? |
25:42 |
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MILITANT:
There is no solution in the end. There is no two-state solution. We are
one country, from the river to the sea. |
25:46 |
Drone
Shot. Tel Aviv, night |
Music
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25:53 |
Anti-government
protest |
NEWSREADER: Thousands of people have gathered in Tel
Aviv to protest against the government. They are demanding the resignation of
the entire Israeli government and the return of all remaining hostages taken
by Hamas militants on October the 7th. |
25:57 |
Posters
of hostages |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Five
months after they were kidnapped, more than 130 hostages are still being held
captive. Israel believes some of them are already dead. |
26:13 |
Anti-government
graffiti |
It
unites the nation in grief. But
there’s also deep anger at the massive security collapse of October 7, and
the ongoing failure to get the hostages out. |
26:24 |
Anti-
Netanyahu protest |
CROWD
CHANT: The blood is on the hands, of
Bibi Netanyahu! |
26:39 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Nearly every day,
there are protests against Benjamin Netanyahu outside Israel’s Parliament
building. |
26:43 |
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PROTESTOR:
We have a cowardly
prime minister who only wants to preserve his place. |
26:49 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Polling shows more
than two thirds of Israelis want their country’s longest serving Prime
Minister gone. |
26:54 |
Yaakov
at protest |
YAAKOV: Netanyahu is guilty for my son’s murder. |
27:01 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Yaakov Godo’s son was
shot dead by Hamas in the October attack. After a month of mourning, Yaakov
set up this protest camp outside the Parliament, and has been here almost
every day since. |
27:05 |
Yaakov
interview |
YAAKOV: I swore on his grave twice that I am going
up to Jerusalem, sitting opposite the Knesset and will demand that the
government and the person who leads it leaves. |
27:22 |
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ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Yaakov is not just
anti-Netanyahu. |
27:35 |
Yaakov
addresses protest |
YAAKOV:
This war, we don’t know where it’s going. This war is for nothing. ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: He’s also
anti-war. And in Israel, that puts him
in a tiny minority. |
27:38 |
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Polling
shows 94 per cent of Jewish Israelis support the aims of the war – to rescue
the hostages, and crush Hamas once and for all. |
27:50 |
Yaakov
interview |
YAAKOV: I think that at this moment, after the
events of October 7, many people have radicalised their views and have
shifted to the right. I think that as time passes, and uncertainty increases
and they get stuck in the Gaza quagmire, and don’t make any progress
anywhere, people will start to understand that Israel’s problems cannot be
solved by war. |
28:02 |
Pro-war
supporters |
ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: It’s a provocative
view here. A supporter of the war in Gaza walks over to confront them. |
28:39 |
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GUY
WITH FLAG: Why aren’t you
demonstrating against the humanitarian aid that’s going to Hamas? MAN
IN BLUE T-SHIRT: You go demonstrate! GUY
WITH FLAG: That’s what we came to demonstrate about today. MAN
IN BLUE T-SHIRT: So go demonstrate. But not here, not here. GUY
WITH FLAG: No, we’ll go up there. You
have your - so that’s your place. MAN
IN BLUE T-SHIRT: Go wherever you want. GUY
WITH FLAG: It’s not a matter of debate. We are all together in this. We all
want the - |
28:46 |
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MAN
WITH BACKPACK: No, no, no, no. We are not together. I don't want to be with
you together. ALLYSON
HORN, Reporter: Is it harder to be
someone who holds the kind of views that you do after October 7? |
29:02 |
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YAAKOV:
It is very hard to be here in the protest tent, to have to absorb curses
almost every day, horrible curses. It reached the point where someone stood
before me and said to me “Stinky, leftist traitor, you murdered your own
son”. |
29:14 |
Protestors
chant. Security remove protestors |
PROTESTORS:
Elections now! |
29:41 |
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ALLYSON HORN,
Reporter: It can be hard to recognise
a historic moment when you’re living through it, but this one is plain to
see. |
29:56 |
Driving
to Sderot |
Back in Sderot, the roads are busier, but security is as tight as ever.
Just over there in Gaza, more than 30,000 people have been killed. When I first moved here |
30:12 |
Allyson
to camera |
two years ago, people I spoke with still had some
vague hope that peace might one day be possible. Now, I don’t know how
Israelis and Palestinians will ever forgive each other. |
30:30 |
Credits
[see below] |
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30:45 |
Outpoint |
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31:21 |