Yafa Jarrar: Living as a Palestinian in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank

From In Bed with the Elephant · 44:06

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Yafa Jarrar is a Palestinian human rights lawyer based in Ottawa, Canada. She and her family have lived most of their lives under Israeli occupation. Her parents Khalida and Ghassan are prominent activists from the West Bank- who have been detained on numerous occasions by Israeli authorities over the last 50 years. Yafa Jarrar recently returned from the West Bank. “A catastrophe is unfolding across the West Bank. Checkpoints, expulsions, killings and land takeovers are not separate events or isolated human rights violations. They are part of the same system. It is time to connect the dots.” Those are words from “The Elimination Project,” a new report by B’Tselem one of Israel’s most prominent Human Rights organizations. B’Tselem’s report documents the dramatic rise in attacks by armed Israeli settlers and Israeli soldiers against Palestinians in the West Bank. It suggests Israel is pursuing a political project bent on destroying Palestinian collective life while “expanding Israeli control and Jewish presence in an irreversible manner.” The report collected more than 2000 testimonies from Palestinians and comes at a time when countries like France, the UK, Norway and Canada have condemned Israeli settler violence in the West Bank in unusually strong terms.

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