The activist says that the colonists feel embraced by the uncontrolled support given to them by US President Donald Trump.
The Israeli soldiers and settlers harassed a Palestinian activist presented in a recent BBC documentary who was chosen for highlighting the fate of the Palestinians in occupied West Bank.
While the attention of the world was fixed over the War of Israel at 18 months against Gaza, the attacks of settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem increased, forcing the Palestinians to flee their homes. The absence of Israeli police action has also rooted settlers, which cite the Torah to claim rights on Palestinian land.
Issa Amro, who was presented in the documentary Settlers made by the American journalist and broadcaster Louis Theroux, published online images showing how armed soldiers and the settlers made a descent into the house in Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Amro said the police also threatened it with arrest and told him not to file a complaint in what he said to be another apartment of apartheid imposed by Israel in the West Bank. Rights defense groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, accused Israel of practicing apartheid in occupied territory.
Amro added on Sunday that the Israeli settlers who attacked him earlier told him that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, had supported them. The colonists felt “embraced due to the blind support of the Trump administration,” said the activist.
Theroux said he and his team had stayed in regular contact with Amro.
. @Issaamro Who presented in the colonists published videos of his last harassment by settlers and soldiers. Our team has been in regular contact with him since the documentary and in the last 24 hours. We continue to monitor the situation.
– Louis Theroux (@louistherex) May 4, 2025
The BBC documentary, followed by Théroux’s film in 2012, The Ultra-Zionists, is considering how the situation has evolved in the occupied Palestinian territory.
While carrying out interviews with Palestinian and Israeli personalities, the documentary explored how the settlers’ population developed considerably and how the new military outposts and Israeli infrastructure developed in the Palestinian territories, often with direct support.
He plunges into religious and ideological motivations behind Israeli expansion, which led to a mass movement of Palestinians and violent clashes, and he calls into question the legality and morality of the occupation as courts that she undermines international laws and standards.
“You bring Jewish families (in occupied West Bank), you live Jewish life, and this will bring light instead of darkness.
Weiss, who also benefited from the support of a certain number of Israeli rabbis, said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “happy” with the expansion of the colonists. Netanyahu opposed Palestinian sovereignty over Gaza and occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The settlers are Israeli citizens who live on Palestinian land private in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. They now have more than 700,000. All Israeli colonies are considered illegal under international law.
The establishments and their extensions are considered to be the largest obstacle in the realization of a sovereign and independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel.
The United Nations General Assembly last year called Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territory. This came from months after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judged that the Israeli presence on Palestinian territory was “illegal”.
Theroux himself was also harassed during the creation of the documentary in Hebron when Israeli soldiers approached him and tried to make him leave the region.
The harassment of AMRO intervenes shortly after Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian co -director of the Oscar -winning documentary, no other land, was attacked by Israeli settlers in his home in the village of West Bank of Susya.
The armed and masked settlers vandalized his house and his vehicle at the end of March and injured Ballal. While receiving treatment in an ambulance, Israeli soldiers have their eyes blindfolded and arrested the filmmaker, who was then released without charge.
Like the harassment of Amro on Saturday, this attack was also considered to be reprisals of the international renown of the documentary and its efforts to show the struggles of the Palestinians in the West Bank.
The incidents also underlined the dangers facing journalists and filmmakers under Israeli occupation at a time when Israel killed more than 200 media workers in the Gaza Strip.
