Want to be here in order to be a lighting to the nation, in order to spouse values of freedom, the values that we hold so dear. We value this essence of life that we put above everything else, so it might not make sense to many of your viewers, but for me it makes perfect sense. على i didnt see any innocent palestinians through my army service. Were not trying to help by helping and healing and taking its militants to hospitals. Were just trying to help people getting arrested. Hes gonna go with me and hes gonna be tied up all night. اللي عمره تحت 45 يروح على البيت. Berlin, of germany. From here we are going to start looking at the occupation of palestine. This is an unusual look through the eyes of in Israeli Soldiers that broke their silence. They will tell about the crimes they committed on behalf of the zionist regime. Now four Million People were controlled the Palestinian Society and we as soldiers. Were sent to the army in israel at the age of 18, 19, you go to the army, its a mandatory service, about five, six months i served in hebron, the second largest palestinian city of in the west bank, 800 settlers that live inside of a palestinian city, for those 800 people, there are about 500, 600 Security Forces to protect them, this exhibition about 60 pictures all taken by soldiers and the two. Those pictures during their military service for memory for themselves. When your of mission is to a curfew or detain people and you succeed in this mission, you want to document. This is like a trophy for you. Its a sick trophy and these guys no doubt last every kind of limit there is, and if thats not enough, you see this soldier here, the officer, he wanted the trophy only for himself, so he wanted to do a photoshop picture. This is not a genuine picture, this is not real, its copied here. I did occupation, i control peoples lives, i decided if someone can or cannot go to school today. This picture is a good example, a soldier randomly checking palestinian in the street, the middle of the day, he had and done anything, hes not suspected, but it checks him, this was probably the most regular view in hebron for us, detain palestinians, hundreds of them, so what does it mean to detain a person . See the soldiers on the back, this is a good time to relax, to have a break, smoke a cigarette, talk with your friends, watch tv, have a lunch, maybe without noticing again, these people that you detain, stop looking at them as people, they are just detained palestinians, blindfolded, always, we see here are confiscated keys, palestinian keys, we control not only peoples cars, we control peoples keys, homes and shops and apartments. Whatever you can imagine, you can come a bit closer, i want to show you this picture, if you would look carefully palestinian kids play soldiers, see they are checking each other, this are supposed to be the guns and in a way, im saying it in a very sad way, because these children imitate their life, this is another imagination, this is what they saw, the reason that they are doing this is because they live under occupation, to know more about this movement that is rising among the Israeli Soldiers, we travel to israel, here we going to meet former soldiers and officers that help to keep the occupation of palestine alive. From tel aviv, we take the road, our destination, al khalil, also known as hebron palestine. This route, like 80 of the total highway system in the west bank, is forbidden to palestinians. Built on private palestinian land, these highways bisect through village. Dividing families and boxing palestinians into enclaves. We want to reach the alkalil city center. After exposing the israeli army crimes, nadav, a former infantry combat soldier is going to meet us here, in the ground zero of the occupation. My name is. Im originally from jerusalem, i served in the idea, in the fifth battalion of the nachal brigade is infantry, and i reached here for the first time when i was wearing a uniform and holding a gun when i was in the army, and i was shocked, i was shocked that the reality like this can happen 40 minutes from my house, the setters here are issue, yeah, were talking about 850 setterers that are being protected by around 500 to 600 Security Forces and any given day, so around the settlements there areas that palestines cannot move to secure the setress and theres a lot of violence that comes from the city. Welcome to alkhale. Alkalil is the ground zero for the illegal israeli settler movement, radical zionism and violence. Magical settlers have taken over parts of the old city, palestinian neighborhoods and the economy were destroyed. Settlers are free to kill and terrorize palestinians. 850 zionist settlers set down in the alkalil city center. Two. Palestinians were expelled. They now live surrounded by fence or a giant cage from where they cannot move. If you want to know what occupation really means, you should come to alkhalil. We are a potential target for the jewish settlers hate. We have camera and our guide is a former. That has broken his silence, a traiter, according to the settlers. This is picture that was taken in the late 90s in this street that we are on now, and i think this this tells the whole story, how hundreds and thousands of people, palestinians left here, were talking about 42 of the Housing Units of palestinians around the settlements were abandoned. 1800 shops of palestinians were shut down, the shops we see here next to us, its part of them, hundreds were shut down. By the army, hundreds were shut down by the palestinians. Alkhalil is divided into two parts, h1 and h2, drawing a line between the settlements and the rest of the city. Palestinians are not allowed anywhere near h2. Shuhada. The main alkalil street was once bustling markets and residential neighborhood. Today shuhada is a ghost area. Only settlers can cross it. Palestinians are forbidden to approach shuhadah. This is an important place because first of all this used to go back and forth to the markets, the other side where we came from over there is basically all shut down, there is nothing, everything is shut down. Most of the families left except one family, that family was able up until few years ago to walk through here as well, now that its sealed, they also need to go all the way from around or from another gate here that the soldiers needs. Open, but this is just one you know very small example of how shutting down of roads to palestinian movement. August 2016, Israeli Soldiers are entering palestinian houses in alkalim, an activist follows them with camera. Can you tell me why youre entering houses . We are doing our job. Okay, what is your job . What exactly are you trying to achieve . Buse these are people they live here, right . Its not. Holmes, this time the israeli army steps back, soldiers dont want witnesses. With nadav, we reach al khalils main square a forbidden territory for the palestinians. What were about to see is part of the occupations daily routine. A 15yearold palestinian girl is arrested in a checkpoint. She is taken inside a Police Station and disappears for some time. She is accused of trying to stad a soldier. When she is taken outside, her hands are tied, and she is heavily guarded by soldiers and police. She is left under the sun for hours and this is what happens next. For this palestinian teenager, this is just the beginning of a long nightmare. An Israeli Police officer takes photos of the girl in the middle of the street in front of everybody. Finally. She is taken away, she will be taken to a military base, will face a military court, and will end in a military jail. To learn more about the future of this palestinian teenager, we should travel to jerusalem alkuds. Were going to meet gerard horton, a lawyer and cofounder of military court. Its an organization of mostly lawyers, palestinian, israeli, english, australian, american lawyers, focusing on the prosecution of children in Israeli Military courts, under the the laws of war, if youre going to try civilians in a situation of occupy occupation, it is a military court that does it, that situation is supposed to be temporary, and were now approaching the. Anniversary of the occupation, no one envisaged that a situation of occupation would be take uh would go on for that length of time. Approximately 800 to a thousand children are detained each year. Most common offense theyre prosecuted for is throwing stones. At least half of the children are detained in the middle of the night. The moment hear the knock on the door banging on the front door, from that moment on, its a fairly terrifying experience for the next 12 to 24 hours, put the camera down and keep your. You might wake up to an explosion, get out of bed, you find armed, heavily armed soldiers in your house. If you have younger siblings, they will be crying, terrified seen all these soldiers, sometimes theyre dogs with the soldiers as well, the parents generally will be arguing with the commander trying to get information, why are you in my house, why are you arresting my son . Have his hands tied with plastic ties, very tightly, the more you struggle, the tighter they get, so they become very painful, youll be blindfolded, parents will not be told where youre being taken to or why youre being arrested, the children report they put on the metal floor of the military vehicle, the soldiers will sit on the seats and the palestinian detaines will be on the metal floor, the soldiers will put their boots, their feet on on the individuals kicking, punching. In the middle of the night, taken out, left outside on the floor, tied and blindfolded or put in a shipping container, if they try to sleep, theyre slapped to be. Awake so theyre sleep deprived by the time they get to the interrogation center, sometimes when they ask to use the toilet theyre not allowed to use the toilet. 8 00 in the morning or so theyll be put back in the military vehicle, taken to an interrogation center. Usually they wont have slept, they may have been slapped around. Bit, nothing eat or drink generally, psychologically theyll be in a very scared condition. The interrogator will start conducting the interrogation in a fairly intimidatory manner. Often will approach the child, these the interrogators often quite physically large individuals, particularly compared to the child. In many cases the child will remain tied during the interrogation, so obviously its a very. Intimidating position to be in, the interrogators frequently then will shout at the child, uh, threaten the child, threaten the childs family, almost in every case the interrogator will tell the child that the other children we arrested with you, theyve all confessed, and they weve sent them home, so it its pointless you resisting any further. So after half an hour an hour those children will provide a confession. The overwhelming majority of children do not get to consult with the lawyer prior to their interrogation and theyre not informed of their right to silence. Interrogate the child in arabic and documented in hebrew, then the hebrew statement is given to the child to sign. It may be accurate. It may not be, theres no way for that child to tell. Whether the child says hes innocent or not, generally the lawyer will advise the child to plead guilty, even if he says hes innocent. If the child wants to maintain his innocence and challenge the evidence uh, in most cases the court will deny the child bail, which means he will sit in prison, waiting for the case to come on for hearing, so the quickest way to get out of the system, even if youre. Innocent is to simply plead guilty. Addition to that, your parents will be fine. The fining serves very useful process. If the army is faced with village that is throwing lot of stores. Every time somebody throwing rocks we see this kid, we remember his face. If i see his face again i dont care if i see him throw rocks or not i am asking this question, hes going to go with me. Is going to be tied up all night and hes going to get punished and youre going to need a pay to take him back, then the army will keep going into that village, rounding people up, some them will have thrown stones, some of the people they round up wont have thrown stones, it doesnt matter, you round people up, you put them through the military court, you find the parents and you bankrupt the village until they stop resisting, so many attacks on settlers i mean to justify, not a single settler was killed in the west bank in 2012, i think its a real mark of the success the military strategy, that in 2012 out of 400,000 israeli civilians, living, going shopping, taking the children to school, whatever normal people do in their daily lives, none of them were killed, living in occupied territory, and i think tried to do something similar in afghanistan, moved 4000 american civilians into kandahar province and told them to build towns and villages, i think uh the casualty rate would be very high, from jerusalem alkuds, we take the way to be atfajar, the town rests a hilltop overlooking a large area of the west bank that stretches from alkalil to bethlehem. Surrounded by five illegal jewish settlements, the daily life in beed fej is nightmare of arrests, kidnappings and night raides. Arrests and detainments have become a powerful mechanism that the zionist regime uses to force the population into submission. At the age of 14, islam has already experienced interrogations and military course. اسمي عصام محمد تقاطقه من بيت فجار عمري 14 نايم طقطق على الدار وامي صحتني على الساعه اثنين قمنا على صوت قوي ما عرفنا شوتها بس قمت على طول فتحت الباب لبست وفتحت الباب وطلعت الجيش تحت مليان حوالين الدار مليان قال بدنا لوين الاولاد طلعتهم لما شافوا عصام قالوا له انت تعال شو اسمك عصام على رقم الهويه قال بدنا اياه وقاله بدي بدهم اياني وين في على الطريق كلبشون وعصموني اه وطلعوني في النقله وضربوني يعني شعور صعب يوم باخذ ال ابن من جوه الدار وبيطلعوا بتقدري تدافعي عنا ولا تسوي شيء شعور صعب صعب جدا يعتقلوه في الناكله يحطوه في الجيب يصيروا يضربوا ويغلطوا صغلطوا على الاميات وعخوات وضربوا على الجرين وعروس وناكلونا على هذا مستعمره جبل فرديس والصبحيتها نقلونا عصون على التحقيق حكى مع المخابرات الصبح قال لي بدك تجيب محامي و وخلص التحقيقه ما يجي المحامي ما استنى المحامي ادخلنا على التحقيق بقى عادي اول شيء عادي دخلنا وحتى معي باحترام وبعدين صار يطبل على الطاوله عشان ما اعترفت لي انت ضربت وانت حركت وسويت هيك قلت له لا مش انا صار يقول لي انت واحد لك الاثباتات بجيب لي جاب لي صورتي وانظر في حجار و صار يسرق الطالعه ويضرب بس قعدنا ساعه ونص احنا وتحقق معنا يعني طبل على الطاوله كثير قال يسرف بعد بييومين اخذن على المحكمه بس ماجو لي هذه بس هيك جلسه عشان اول جلسه واجلوها بقول كلبشونا في جرينا وفيدينا ياخذونا على البوسطه ناكله وبدوننا على على المحاكم وفي غرفه بظل قاعدين فيها بجزء تسع ساعات نقعد فيها ويتمنى يجي اسامينا على على المحاكم وندخل بعدين براجعون عليها بنقعد ساعه عشان نطلع علىعفر يراجعنا علىعفر وبنقعد في اخرى غرفه بمطول يعني تما نرجع الكسامام لا سول صفكه عشان الغررامه كمو 15 الف شيكل المحامي يعني تحتج على اساس انه الادعاء العام بقول لا هذا لو طفل لو طفل لازم ينسجن لان هذا قاصر 14 سنه بكره بصير 18 وبصير 20 وبصير 25 فلازم نحن يعني من هلا نحط لحد يعني ما في قانون على الفلسطينيه ما في قانون نهائي يعني ما بيصير نصدق شيء مش مش موجود انا وانا شخصيا لا بصدق لا امم متحدده ولا عالم اخر بالمره ما في كل الظلم موجود هان في واحد بيحكي كلمه حق بحقنا ما في ولا اممم متحدده هذا كلام فاضي انا بالنسبه لي كلام فاضي الامم المتحده وما في قانون بتطبق عصرائي كل القوانين اللي من الامم المتحده اسرائيل ورا ظهرها وامريكا معها والعالم كلها مع اسرائيل فمشكله يعني نحن الله النا بس يعني شودك مرات بيجي بدون اعتقال هيذا بس تفتيش دور بيسالوا على الناس اه بس مشان يرعبوا الناس بطلنا نعرف انظل الفجر تطلع النهار بس تفضي الدنيا بنحس الامان وبننام هو is one of the most demanding places for a soldier to be posted to. Young israelis, some still teenagers are in the frontline of the occupation. We are about to learn that in the near future things can only get worse. Dont touch me, dont touch me, dont touch me, these kids are the future generation of jewish settlers in palestinian land. Harassed by the young settlers, we decided to move away, but they came with mission and would not give up. They would do anything to stop us, they were sent by the older settlers to. Do their job, dont even think to touch me, dont touch me, you dont even think to touch me, they are used to doing it, as we can see in this video, the soldiers have clear orders from their commanders, they cannot touch the settlers, no matter what they do. The young settlers will follow us to make sure we leave our khalil without telling the story. The soldiers are afraid of them and of the reaction of the settlers community in alkhalil who are heavily armed and live above and beyond the law. The young settler says nadav is a traiter and tries to attack him. Thank you, coming, dont touch me, im putting my hand here, coming, we have to leave al khalil for security reasons in our search for those soldiers who have decided to reveal the crime. The occupation, we go back to tel aviv, to occupy palestine, to expel palestinians from their homes and to kill them at will. They needed an excuse, so they called the land their own homeland overnight, ushering in a dark chapter in the history of the world, but shall the owners of the land return home, or stand the. On the ruins of the house overlooking the school in the Northern Gaza Strip town of bade hannoon. The israelis rounded them up and killed 16 of them where they stood, mostly children, and wounded more than 55 others. The children were playing in the street, somewhere playing on the swings. We were surprised by the explosion, but when we turned round we saw the. Children had become shreds of flesh laying in the street, some were injured and some others were dead. My uncle shaban, jamal and muhammad were among those who died. Every child of palestine now carries with them memories of explosions, of screams of horror by the inhumane, uncunonable actions of israel. The headlines, more than 2,300 people, most them, women and children, have so far been killed and nearly 10,000 wounded in israels onslot on the besieg gaza strip. Says israels plot to evacuate the people of gaza is domed to fail as palestinians will not leave their homeland. And iron has warned that the continuation of israeli crimes against palestinians will change the situation in the entire region