On March 2nd, two men – one Israeli and one Palestinian – stood on the stage of the Academy Awards in LA and accepted an Oscar for their documentary ‘No Other Land’.
Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham spent four years filming Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank region. Their documentary was recorded before the war in Gaza, but highlights a reality that Palestinian communities have faced for decades.
Life in the West Bank has become significantly more dangerous since Israel launched its Iron Wall operation just days after a the January ceasefire took hold in Gaza. This week, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary, Hamdan Ballal, was reportedly attacked by masked settlers and arrested by the Israeli army. Oxfam has described the ongoing Israeli military violence in the West Bank as the ‘Gazafication’ of the region.
Meanwhile, the fragile peace deal in the neighbouring Gaza Strip was shattered last week, when Israeli air strikes killed more than 400 people.
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What is the aim and justification of Israel’s Iron Wall operation? And with settler violence on the rise, is Israel working towards a formal annexation of the region?
Today, on In The News we talk Hanno Hauenstein, a Berlin-based journalist who has reported from the West Bank for the Israeli-Palestinian +972 Magazine and has written for The Guardian about the rise of the far-right in Germany.
Presented by Sorcha Pollak. Produced by Declan Conlon.
