The 2021 Israel-Palestine Conflict, Explained

The Israel-Palestine crisis is at its worst in 7 years. Here’s what you need to know about the recent developments...

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00:30Jacob, you know, this is not your house.

00:36Yes, but if I go, you don't go back.

00:38So what's the problem?

00:39Why are you yelling at me?

00:40I didn't do this.

00:41I didn't do this.

00:42But you're not helping.

00:43It's easy to yell at me, but I didn't do this.

00:44You are stealing my house.

00:45And if I don't steal it, someone else is going to steal it.

00:46No, no one is allowed to steal it.

00:47This is our house since 1956, we grew up in it, we lived in it, we grew up in it and we

01:12want to stay in it.

01:13This is a national battle, they don't want Jews to live in Israel, they say it, listen

01:36to what they say, listen to what they chant, they don't accept the presence of Jews in

01:41the land of Israel, they don't accept the presence of Jews in Jerusalem.

02:01A lot of these evictions are based on the Israeli 1950 absentee property law, which

02:07allows the Israeli state to confiscate properties owned by people who live in enemy land.

02:13And so according to rights groups, this law was used and abused to confiscate land from

02:19Palestinians who lost their homes after the creation of Israel in 1948.

02:37This is a national battle, they don't want Jews to live in Israel, they say, listen to

03:05what they say, listen to what they chant, they don't accept the presence of Jews in

03:35the land of Israel.

04:00This is an unacceptable escalation.

04:27This is a national battle, they don't want Jews to live in Israel, they say, listen to

04:57what they chant, they don't accept the presence of Jews in the land of Israel.