Yesh Din

[wind blowing] Jewish settlements here, illegal under international law, are expanding, and settler attacks are rising as well.

The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din says more than ninety percent of police investigations into settler violence end without indictment.

Uh, there is a problem of violence in the West Bank.

There are-

"Last night they started flashing a spotlight at us," Kareem's father told me, "as if to say, 'We killed your son, and it doesn't matter.'" [instrumental music]Jewish settlements here, illegal under international law, are expanding, and settler attacks are rising as well.

[crowd shouting] The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din says more than ninety percent of police investigations into settler violence end without indictment.

Uh, there is a problem of violence in the West Bank.

There are-

I mean, the Hind Rajab killings were in January 2024, so we're now two and a half years on, and this fact-finding mechanism has basically just come to the point now in both these cases where it's saying, "Okay, we see enough grounds here for a criminal investigation." So in a way, this is just the beginning, and what we've seen in the past is that very, very few of these cases actually ever make it to criminal prosecution and even less to an actual, uh, conviction.

There's a group, Yesh Din, that has done analysis of military investigations and found that only about 2% ever end in a, a conviction.

So rights groups both in Israel and abroad have essentially called past investigations a facade and a whitewash just intended to try and stave off international criticism without actually producing much in the way of results.

Isabel says the military also announced yesterday that it did not find grounds for criminal investigations into other high-profile cases, including the killing of seven employees of the relief group World Central Kitchen.

[instrumental music] Meanwhile, Israel has continued to carry out what it says are targeted killings in Gaza almost a year after a ceasefire with Hamas took effect.

As well as the 15 emergency workers who were killed during the genocide last year, Israel claimed that they were driving suspicious vehicles which were in darkness, their headlights and emergency lights turned off, all of which was proven false by video footage.

Now according to the Israeli human rights NGO Yesh Din, between 2018 and 2022, hundreds of complaints and 209 Palestinian fatalities in the West Bank were brought to the attention of the IDF.

Only one, one prosecution was, was-- took place.

One prosecution.

As Yesh Din concluded, "The data shows that Israel is unwilling to conduct genuine investigation and prosecution procedures in cases of offenses committed by soldiers." What was this one exception? You're probably dying to know.

You probably love to know.

What the hell was the one exception? And, and what happened? What was the punishment? This was when an Israeli soldier shot dead a 23-year-old Palestinian man named Ahmed Jamal Manasra, and this was near Bethlehem in March 2019.