(4 Feb 2025)
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Beit El settlement, West Bank – 4 February 2025
1. Aerial video of Beit El settlement in the occupied West Bank
2. Zoom out from Palestinian village Ein Yabrud to Beit El settlement
3. Settlement
4. Wide of the Palestinian village of Ein Yabrud
5. Baruch Gordon, director of West Bank Jewish Population Stats talking to resident of Beit El
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Baruch Gordon, director of West Bank Jewish Population Stats:
“I think that once they, once the government of Israel has the fortitude to stand up to the world and particularly the United States government and say, we’re going to build Judea and Samaria, because that’s where we have a lot of land and it’s cheap and we can solve our housing problem for the young couples and bring housing prices back down to be affordable, then that may happen with this administration of (President Donald) Trump and I think you’re going to see an explosion of the construction here and the rates would be of growth would be much higher.”
7. Various of Beit El settlement residents walking
8. Excavator in operation
9. Various of buildings
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Baruch Gordon, director of West Bank Jewish Population Stats:
“I think that the Saudis have never mentioned the Palestinians when the previous administration of Trump, they were negotiating. They’ve never mentioned the Palestinians. It’s only to quiet the public in the Arab world. But I think they really don’t care. If they cared, they would have been helping them long ago.”
11. Various of construction sites at Beit El settlement
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Baruch Gordon, director of West Bank Jewish Population Stats:
“One hundred percent I support annexation, yes. It’s the heartland of Israel, strategically. Any military personnel from any country that has ever stood in the high lands of the West Bank, Judea and Samaria Highlands and looked down at Tel Aviv, they say, how can anyone in his right mind consider ceding these mountains to a foreign entity that’s hostile to you? It’s crazy don’t do it. And so I think strategically, it’s a necessity. And I think also biblically, this is our biblical heartland, 85 percent of the stories of the Bible took place in the West Bank.”
13. Sign advertising apartments in Beit El settlement
14. Various of the settlement
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Baruch Gordon, director of West Bank Jewish Population Stats:
“Today we see as of January 1st, 2025, it’s 529,455 Jews, not including the some 340-thousand Jews that live on the eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, meaning technically part of the West Bank that was liberated in the 1967 war. And that fact, by the way, the former mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, told us straight out, he said, there’s no question that a majority of the Jews in Jerusalem live across the Green Line, meaning in the in the neighborhoods liberated in the 1967 war.”
16. Various of the settlement and construction work
17. Various aerials of the settlement
STORYLINE:
The Jewish population in the West Bank grew at twice the rate of the general Israeli population last year, according to an advocacy group that hopes the Trump administration will support policies that help accelerate the growth of settlements in the occupied territory.
The West Bank’s Jewish-settler population rose by roughly 2.3% — over 12-thousand people — last year, reaching 529,450, according to a report by West Bank Jewish Population Stats.
That was a slight dip from the 2.9% growth rate in 2023 but roughly double the 1.1% population growth rate inside Israel proper.
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