This timely documentary offers a searing insight into the hostile and often violent reality of life in the occupied West Bank…
With rare access inside the Israeli settler movement and the Palestinians whose land they contest, this timely documentary offers a searing insight into the hostile and often violent reality of life in the occupied West Bank.
Filmed across 8 months in 2024, it follows the lives of those on opposing sides of the controversial divide: an Israeli settler who’s helped by a group of young men to further expand and defend the land he controls. And a Palestinian family who endure frequent and intimidating visits from other groups of settlers onto the land they’ve called home for more than 40 years.
The film-makers are also given access to events organised by a controversial, leading figure in the West Bank’s radical settler movement – attended by far-right members of the Israeli government. There, land for new homes in the shattered north of Gaza is advertised and allocated for potential occupation, once displaced Palestinians have left the territory.
As the Israeli military intensifies its raids on militants, including Hamas, inside Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, the film follows paramedics providing emergency medical treatment for the injured, while their own families live inside the camps.
Broadcasting in the wake of President Trump’s lifting of U.S. sanctions against some Israeli settlers and groups deemed by the Biden administration to be promoting violence in the West Bank – and filmed in the months before the January ceasefire in Gaza – this is a story of escalating tensions and emboldened settler activity in one of the most sensitive parts of the Middle East.
The film is produced by the Emmy and BAFTA-winning Hardcash Productions, and made by the BAFTA-winning filmmaker Jordan Bryon for the ITV Exposure strand.
Our Land: Israel’s Other War aits on ITV1, STV, STV Player & ITVX on Sunday 30th March, 10.20 pm
