No available water up held and into ghaza, also you cannot utilize any because underneath your land which is very limited, you dont have any Water Resources storage in the airquifers, jordan river already already diverted and dried out, so under this plan of palestinians should live with no water, which is impossible, by fragmenting not only the palestinians politically, but also geographically by. Fragmenting the fragmented after oslo, and now with this deal of century. In part one of this documentary series, we began a journey into occupied palestine in order to find out why Donald Trumps plan for new israel, palestine was declined by the Palestinian People. We investigated the issues of jerusalem alquds, settlements, the annexation of the Jordan Valley and took a brief journey into the history of the Peace Process. Along the way we witnessed the murder of palestinians in escalated environment of violence throughout the occupied palestinian territories. We now continue the journey, turning our attention to the issues of refugees, resources and what trumps assault on the palestinians has meant for the people of the gaza strip. After having traveled to jerusalem alquds, i headed to the city of bethlehem to get better sense of what locals fought of the coming annexation of their lands as part of trumps plan. To find out more, i spoke with bethlehem, born activist mahmoud, and asked him about what the future of his city would look like under the socalled deal of the century. First of all, israel b the segregation wall between. And jerusalem which divorce the two cities from each other, and you know the historical twins between bethlehem and jerusalem, historically, religious level, economic and social, and all this has been impacted by construction of the annexation wall and between bethlehem and jerusalem, moreover, the Israeli Government annexed the land north of bethlehem, and by the way, i am living in a small village in this area which is surrounded by a big block of illegal israeli settlement called gosh where more than 100 thousand israeli colonists are living in this block and the east side of bethlehem is like desert which is like natural reservoir of this of the district and it is it has been announced as a military Training Zone so 80 87 of bethlehem district will be either isolated by settlements by by pass roads as natural reserves for the Israeli Occupation and from the north it has been already isolated as you can see in this map historically how the palestinian territories has been shrunked and the last one is the trump plan where i am living here actually if you see the white the white territories are still under the israeli control which means my village which is a tiny village will be surround from three sides by the israeli under israeli control, either by the apartide roads where we will not be able to use only for settlers or by the settlements themselves or by closed military zones where we are not able to to be. A question that i was also seeking to have answered was how the situation currently في affects christian palestinians and whether there are any tensions between muslims and christians in the city. The richness of. This diversity, the coexistence that we grown up as muslims and christians living in the city is one of the richness of of the city, even we cannot talk about. Distance because the seeds of muslims and christians grown up together in this city, neither muslims nor christians came as immigrants to the city, they are the Indigenous People from the same family you can find christians and muslims, and both are arabs, they have the roots in this city, and this city, thats where the richness, where the most shameful question that you ask a residence of bethlehem is what is your religion . Coming here to a site that has so much holy significance, that has so much historical significance, and bearing witness to scenes such as this wall and the occupation here in bethlehem really almost brings a tear to the eye, seeing how the palestinian muslims and christians, live side by side in unity here together, are treated and are without dignity, and if this deal is accepted, we know that this land, which is part of bethlehem, the holy city, which lies behind this wall, which is taken by the Israeli Occupation forces will be permanently separated from the heart of the city belonging to the palestinian muslims and christians here. The new unimulable borders that israel want to put on the ground in order to prevent the continuity between the palestinian territories in bethlehem and all over the occupied west bank. Thats impossible for palestinians to have a state with this. Yet, this is not the end of the story. We see the hope, the hope. That we are able to see is the resilience of the palestinians, the everyday acts of the palestinians that counter the israeli policies and the american piace with the Israeli Occupation. This resilience actually enabled palestinians to stay in their land for for now more than a century. Many palestinians i met argued that there had never been a real genuine Peace Process and any chance of one in the future died when the Us Government recognized. Israels capital as being jerusalem alquds in early december of 2017. The move was rejected by the overwhelming majority of United NationsMember States and motivated the palestinians to take further grassroots action against Israeli Aggression and the usurping of more land. This later led to a mass civilian mobilization in the gaza strip, giving birth to the great march of return beginning on the 30th of march 2018 in the besieg coastal on. Which had endured 13 years of bloccade as well as eight largescale military bombardments carried out against its population within that period, killing thousands of civilians. There are currently two Million People living in the gaza strip, of which 52 are children, 70 plus percent are also refugees, all packed into area more densely populated than tokyo, with water supply which is 97 undrinkable and the people having to. Live with only few hours of electricity per day. In addition to this, israel controls the airspace, electromagnetic sphere and water. According to experts at the un, the gaza strip is now officially considered as uninhabitable. Gazas great march of return was a mass nonviolence series of demonstrations which took place against the israeli separation barrier in which Israeli Soldiers killed over 330. Unarmed palestinians injuring upwards of 40,000. No israelis were significantly injured beyond scratches and no israels were killed in what the likes of the bbc and cnn characterized as violent clashes. A un investigative report adopted by the un hrc, has even accused israel of directly targeting and intentionally killing palestinian women, children, medics, journalists, Senior Citizens and the disabled. Israel any wrongdoing and claims that only killed terrorists. One such killing claimed by israel to have been committed in selfdefense was that of 20 year old razan. Razan was a volunteer medic, according to Human Rights Organization, killed by israeli sniper fire. رزان فتاه فلسطينيه تبلغ من العمر 21 عام, كانت تعمل في مخيمات العوده كمتطوعه في الاغاثه الطبيه، والتوااقم الطبيه. كانت تعمل على اجلاب المصابين من خطوط التماس وتعمل على معالجتهم في المكان نفسه وكانت متواجده في الميدان باستمرار وهي ترتدي الزيء الاسعافي رزان تطمح مثل اي فتاه فلسطينيه او فتاه في العالم رزان هي بنت النهايه و عندها طموحها مثل اي بنت انها تكبر وتكمل تعليمها انها تتزوج وتكون لها بيت واطفال وانها تعيش حياتها بكل اريحيه انها تسافر وتطلع بره وتشوف العالم الخارجي من بره ولكن للاسف الاحتلال قتل كل احلامه رزان قامر رزان الشاهد على جرائم الاحتلال الاسرائيلي هو ارتداءها لهذا الذيه التي قتلت من اجله والدماء التي ما زالت الى الان في هذا اللباس لرزان وهذه رساسه القدر التي قتلت روزان بدم بارد وهذه هذه بطاقه رزان المعروفه دوليا انها هي لها حق في الحمايه لرزان. Slowly phased out prior to the announcement of trumps plan with gaza resident my team and i, that the people had suffered a blow to their morale after their nonviolent resistance had failed to cause any real action to be taken against israel. The world had left the palestinians to die. In the west, many countries cosigned the israeli justifications for their actions and attacked human rights activists as being antisemitic for pointing out the crimes noted in the un and Human Rights Watch reports. Since the trump netanyahu plan was announced, israel has a. Attacked and frettend to launch yet another military operation against gaza, which the population there feel will be enabled by the trump administration. As a nonviolent struggle in the gaza strip had slowly declined in numbers, i wanted to see what the mood was like in the west bank in village that had one the longest running weekly protest movements in all of palestine. Weve come here to the west bank village of belain, which has been nonviolently resisting the illegal Israeli Occupation for 15. Years after most of their land was taken away from them by the wall and the settlements you see behind me, so weve come here to investigate after the announcement of the deal of the century, what this means for the palestinian People Living here . I met up with the leader of the local nonviolent demonstrations for the village, Abdullah Abu Rahman and questioned him on the socalled deal of the century as well as what steps are going to be taken to tackle it . By this deal, i think uh another. But for palestinian and for this we as a activist for nonviolence resistance in palestine, we ask all of the places, all of the people to be in one group or to use this type of violence resistance to stop this deal, when we talk about the wall, the wall is separating between us and our land and the israelian plan to build more homes, more settlements behind the wall, for this its not as the israelian says, this is for security reasons. This is for confiscated more and more and more land from the palestinian, they throwing and shooting and firing cars, homes, farms, by this way, i think its difficult to continue our life with this criminal people. The wall built on Palestinian Land, which the demonstrators are protesting to have removed, was ruled by the International Court of justice to be illegal, and demanded its immediate dismantlement, as the day went on, the violence only increased with tear gas flying everywhere, it became abundantly clear that the israelis wished to send message to those protesting that they would pay a price for their resistance. In the early hours of the following morning, we were awoken by the sounds of gunshots. My cameraman, humdy sprung into action and we went down to see what was going on. I quickly came to realize. That the Israeli Occupation forces had come to arrest children who they accused of throwing stones, a crime to israel which can land you up to 20 years in a military prison. This child is only 14, and his arrest constitutes violation of international law. The crime that you are seeing was no one off. Israeli force his arrest and detain palestinian minors a near daily basis in the west bank, with thousands of documented cases proving that israel would. To detain and arrest children even under the age of 12. The campaigns of arrests only increased after the announcement of trumps palestine israel plan. After rough night being awoken to the sound of soldiers entering and trashing palestinian homes, i turned my attention to another core issue which is often overlooked, water. If you ask palestinians here, the occupation is not just the soldiers, its not just the settlements, its everything, its. Its the water, its the land, its how they will get electricity, how everything works here is under occupation, and see the water here that youre seeing flowing pastas was intended for palestinians, but however it has been diverted and goes to illegal settlement. This is just one of many areas in the west bank where you will see something as simple as water, impacting the lives of palestinians a daily basis and making it so that they cannot live. With freedom and with dignity, even to have their own water to supply themselves, to drink, to wash and to power things, to get more insight into how the. Occupation of water would affect a potential palestinian state. I spoke to raslan muhammad yasin, an engineer who worked on past Palestinian Authority proposals for peace deals, working on the plans for water allocation to a palestinian state. We also traveled to Natural Spring called jareut, where i was shown around by local palestinian farmer named abu hatim. It is impossible to survive under discipline and simply you dont have any Water Resources, there is no available water up hills and into ghaza and also you cannot utilize any because underneath your land which is very limited you dont have any Water Resources storage in the arcfers and the jordan river already already diverted and dried out so under this plan palestinians should live with no water which is impossible the land you are seeing here would likely become confiscated under trumps deal, would result in the displacement of Farming Families here, as well as the loss of access to water for the surrounding villages, benefiting from jaruts Water Resources, one of the few springs that is still under control of palestinians. Israel is controlling all the Water Resources from jordan river to lake and the ground water equifers and nowadays even springs, so out of this conclusion is that they can give limited. Quantities to palestinians and maybe is around the 10 is going to palestinian side which is very or it is under the international quantities or who standards for the bear capital consumption for domestic use. Moreover israeli already israeli side already did many wells, thousands of ones around gaza strip and this of course will cut the natural flow into the gazza equafor that already. Will decrease the deterioration of the equifer, which means that it will not be replenished or will be not be recharged with new or rearly recharge that could come into gazza, and under this mining of course it will bring seawater entrogen which will have irreversible effect. Even in the main city of ramala, water is regularly cut as israel has complete control over the areas Water Resources, taking water from Palestinian Land and selling. Get back to them a higher price than what israels are required to pay, everybody will be just searching for water and then he will be struggling for a glass of water, and since we have no any Water Resources and it is mainly controlled by israel, so israeli side who is controlling the Water Resources, he can control the shape of our life in the future, which is you can imagine that the life without water is very miserable, for years the amount of water allowed. Of palestinians has sat below World Health Organization standards with the Human Rights Organization and hack finding that Israeli Settlers get six times more water than west Bank Palestinians average. According to the un, ocha, at least 180 westbank communities are completely without any direct supply of water. Around 200,000 people a strip or also without any direct link to water system, with the water there being 97. Unfit for human consumption. The water situation in gaza is so bad that leading scholar on gazas economy, sara roy from Harvard University has essentially said that israel is allowing for the systematic poisoning of million children in gaza. Many palestinians currently still live inside of palestine, but unfortunately the large majority of palestinians have not been able to remain on their lands after being displaced to all corners of the globe. Many. Still stateles and living in refugee camps. The issue of refugees began with what is known as the nakba or the ethnic cleansing of palestine between 1947 to 1949 when zionist militas such as the hagana, sterng gang and urgoon massacred thousands of palestinians and expelled around 800,0 people from their lands. Another ethnic cleansing of a further 300,000 people also occurred in june 1967 when illegally occupied the west bank, ghaza strip, the syrian jolan, and the egyptian sinai. The palestinian right of return to their homes, that many still own the keys and deeds to, is a right enshrined in international law, with recognition ranging from Un Resolution 194, to the recognition of the right of return by leading Human Rights Organizations such as amnesty international. Yet, this right is denied of the palestinians by trumps deal, and after visiting countless refugeee families, i began to understand why this final status issue, as it is referred to as, is unnegotiable for the Palestinian People. This is because the large majority. Majority of palestinians are refugees, whether displaced internally or externally from their homelands, and any peace solution cannot reject these refugees. A just solution must include these refugees as human beings and must also recognize these refugees as being palestinian, something that the Israeli Regime and us now wish to deny of the refugees, their very identity. With the Us Withdrawing funds to the United Nations, relief and. Works agency set up to support palestinian refugees. It is clear that trumps deal is nothing more than an israeli and christian evangelical rightwing plan to inflict a final blow against the palestinians, making them irrelevant to the ongoing european settler colonial project. The issue of why palestinians have historically entered into negotiations with rightwing administrations like Donald Trumps america, and the current israeli leadership, was addressed. Famously in 1970 by rasen kanafani when interviewed by richard carlton, and even though kanafani was killed by an israeli carbong two years later, reflects the feelings of many palestinians until this day. You dont mean exactly peace talks, you mean capitalation, surrendering. Why not just talk . Talk to the israeli leaders. Thats kind of conversation between the. Bord and the neck, you mean, well if there are no swords and no guns in the room, you could still talk, no, i havent been, i had never seen any talk between a colonialist case and National Liberation movement, to stop fighting to stop the death and the misery, the destruction, the pain, the misery and the destruction and the pain and the death of whom, of palestinians of israelis, of arabs, of the Palestinian People who are up. Stood thrown in the camps, living in starvation, killed for 20 years and forbidden to use even the name palestinians, the better that way than dead though, maybe to you, but to us, its not, to us to liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights, is something as essential as life, one thing was absolutely clear from my journey through occupied palestine and that was that palestinians were not going to give up their freedom anytime soon, so the question now remaining to be answered is, our palestinians and israelis to be considered as equal human beings and allocated the same rights in a real democracy, or is the Current System of israeli privilege going to remain as palestinian rights are trumped by the claims of security and wants of the privileged israels in a permanent state of apartide, and if this is to be the. Case what will separate the condition of humanity from the barbarism of the past which we like to think we have since changed from هدفنا واحد هو بس انقاذ واخلاق ونوصل رساله للعالم انه احنا بدون سلاح قادرين نعمل كل شيء هذا حب انتماعنا للوطن يعني هذا عمل انساني ما بدنا عليه مقابل نحن بدنا نقدر تعبنا الله بس مش مستعدين يعني ما بدنا مقابل من اي حدا لرواتب ولا توظيفنا كثير سالوا بابا بنتك هي طب ما بتاخد رات حكى لهم انا بنتي بفتخر فيها انها بتقدم شيء انساني لابنا لابناء وطني يعني ك كمان بنت وخصوص نحن المراه عندنا منتقده كثير في المجتمع بس المجتمع لازم يتقبلنا غصب عنه لو بده يتقبلنا بارادته بيتقبلنا غصب عنه لانه احنا عندنا قوه اكثر من اي راجل القوه اللي نحن بنمتلكها القوه اللي استرجلت فيها اول في اول مسعفه في الاسبوع الاول بتحداها بتحدا الاقيه عند اي شخص يعني. Enough is enough, we will not de at the ongoing slaughter of our brother. And sisters in gazzah now see fire now se fire now sease fire now the headlines, this hour, israel says it will intensify its indiscriminate bombing of the besieged gaza strip after killing thousands of palestinian women and children in the past two weeks