http://news.linktv.org Link TV News Videos (Filtered by topics: Beit Jala) en-us Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://news.linktv.org/videos/mosaic-news-070612?start=977 Palestine TV reports that the IDF's construction of the West Bank separation wall will be resumed in Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion settlement after a five-year hiatus. In addition, Israeli settlers seized land in the town of al-Khader in southern Bethlehem. Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/mosaic-news-070612 Libyan Public National Conference election, 2012, Knesset, Libya, Jerusalem, Elections in Libya, Israel, 2011 Libyan Uprising, 2011-2012 Sudanese protests, 2011-2012 Jordanian Protests, 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan Presenter, Male #1 During a hearing at the occupation's Supreme Court, an officer in the occupation army revealed the constructing of the annexation and apartheid wall will be resumed in the area of Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion settlement. In addition, settlers seized agricultural land in the town of al-Khader in southern Bethlehem. Reporter, Male #2 In a plot to Judaize occupied Jerusalem and isolate it from its surroundings, the Israeli occupation will resume, in the coming weeks, the construction of the apartheid wall around the Gush Etzion settlement, in the southwestern part of Bethlehem, after work was halted over the past five years. Guest, Male #3 The settlement campaign is intensifying on the land of the town of Khader, and especially in the areas bordering the settlements. Recently, the Israeli Knesset issued a decision allowing this Palestinian land to be seized by the settlers. The so-called Israeli education minister also came out with a project to construct biblical gardens and schools in the areas of Khalt al-Fahim. Reporter, Male #2 The new Israeli endeavor seeks to occupy more than 20,000 donums of agricultural land, in addition to the thousands of donums on which settlements were built; all that land belongs to residents of the towns of al-Khader, Rfas, and Beit Jala. This is in addition to the provisions to Judaize Jerusalem, annex the settlement's land, and seize the Palestinians' right to their land. Guest, Male #4 (Ibrahim Moussa, Resident and Farmer) They are now on my land that they took, that was devoured by the wall; they took 8 donums from it. Right now, the wall is surrounding the city of al-Khader, and reduced it from 24,000 donums to 20,000 donums. The wall has prevented people from communicating with people in other villages and towns. And this also poses a problem for the farmers who cannot reach their land and crops. Reporter, Male #2 The targeting of Bethlehem is not limited to the occupation's procedures that are embodied in constructing the annexation wall, but citizens are also prevented from receiving building permits, while the occupation excels in sending demolition orders to the villages of the western countryside, and actually demolishing the homes of the residents. Guest, Male #5 (Taha Hamamra, Village Council Member) About a month ago, we were surprised by the Israeli occupation's decision to confiscate some land in the village. We feel that the confiscation of these donums, and although it is a small number of donums, is a way to seize a large amount of land. Reporter, Male #2 So the occupation's one-sided procedures undermine the two-state solution, and the occupation's government is even mapping a new geographical reality on the ground. It is an attempt to impose a political solution that places our people and their dream of freedom and independence in closed cantons, unable to survive. It is an occupation story, and its acts are revealed day-by-day. What the governorate of Bethlehem is being subjected to, from Judaization to settlement construction, are mere chapters of that story. Alaa Eddine al-Abd, Palestine TV, Bethlehem. http://news.linktv.org/videos/mosaic-news-120511?start=1088 Yemeni vice president forms military council as violence continues, Shia Muslims mark Ashura as deadly bombing targets pilgrims in Iraq, Assad regime holds war games in show of force, and more.<br /> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/mosaic-news-120511 Protest, Syrian Civil War, Syria, Israel, Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, Yemen Uprising, Taiz, Homs, Benjamin Netanyahu Presenter, Male #1 Dozens of Palestinian Christians in the town of Beit Jala near Bethlehem city held a Friday mass on their land that Israel is threatening to confiscate in order to build the separation wall, which will annex thousands of dunoms of Palestinian land. This wall will completely separate Beit Jala from the city of Jerusalem and separate the Christian monasteries in the town from each other. Reporter, Female #1 For over a month, these Christians have been gathering here every Friday to hold their mass on the land of the Cremisan Monastery in Beit Jala. The masses were not held in the church like usual, but on this patch of land that Israeli occupation forces are threatening to confiscate in order to annex it into the municipality of Jerusalem. Guest, Male #2 (Ibrahim al-Shoumali, Parish Priest in Beit Jala) We say to our lord, "God, no one can hear us. No one is hearing the cry of injustice from this land. You're probably the only one who can hear us, and if you can't hear us then who will?" So we are crying out our prayers. Reporter, Female #1 The construction of the separation wall continues in the town of Beit Jala. The wall is forcing the Palestinians to leave their homes as their land is confiscated. The wall besieges the citizens and isolates them from two nearby settlements: the Gilo settlement and its offset, the Har Gillo settlement, where settlement units are quickly being constructed. Israel moves ahead with its project despite the damages it inflicts on citizens and Christian monasteries, which are now isolated and separated from one another. Guest, Male #3 The monks of the Cremisan Monastery, the monastery over there, will be part of Gilo, and the nuns' monastery will be part of Palestinian land, the land of Bethlehem and Beit Jala. So it will be separated from the monks' monastery. Reporter, Female #1 The size of the land that will be annexed by the wall is approximately 7,000 dunoms. The land is described as the finest agricultural land in Palestine. And with the confiscation, the same story repeats itself; the story of the wall has become well-known and dozens of families will lose the source of their livelihood. Guest, Male #4 (Richardo Hani, Owner of land threatened to be confiscated) The 20 donums that I own, that I inherited from my father, and that my father inherited from his father, are gone. I don't have any more land. I am not allowed to enter it and not allowed to get close to it. I came a year ago to build on it, I brought a tractor and the Israeli authorities and army came to tell me I'm not allowed to do anything on it. Reporter, Female #1 Israel may publicize its security pretexts, but this land behind me stands in the way of connecting two parallel settlements. But whether or not Israel confiscates this land, the two existing settlements were already built on Palestinian land. Shirin Abu Aqla, al-Jazeera, from the town of Beit Jala.