
End the Occupation: Norwegian Refugee Council Warns Israeli Elections May Empower Extremist Parties
As Israel holds national elections amid increasing crackdowns on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, we speak with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who is in Jerusalem and has been speaking with Palestinian families in the Occupied Territories. He is calling on Israel to end its decades-long occupation. He describes the ongoing Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and the growth of illegal settlements, and says the situation is likely to get worse after elections as the political parties expected to make major gains are “in favor of illegal settlements, colonization of occupied land and the displacement of Palestinian families.”
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Fascism is out of control in Israel
How much you were paid by Ali Khamanei for all these lie !
Thank you All Americans 🇺🇸… keep supporting Israel who u share common values with .. right ?
The Israeli government is treating the Palestinians exactly how the German government treated the Jewish people before WWII! Hypocrisy in the highest form.
Jan Egeland secretary of refugees council, shut up your demonic adeal of you don't know what is occupation?, It's worth noting that even prophet Muhammad was once in Temple mount in Jerusalem during his trip to Heaven he made plainly that the land is for the children of Israel, your claim undermine and delegimimize the Quran and the Bible and the Jewish to their Homeland, the fact is palestinia are interlopers in the land which is not their,.
Fake news. Amy Goodman, LEAVE and stop occupying my Homeland in America. Leave you illegal occupier…fake… hippo rite
IZDRAEL DO NOT GIVE A DAM ABOUT ENYBUDY U.N OR THE WORLD BECAUSE U.S.A IS GIVING RIGHT TO DO WHAT THEY WANT. AND THEY FORGET THE HISTORY OF 2 WAR.
NOBODY IN ALL WORLD SAY ENITHYNG TO ISRAEL WHY.
The world will go nothing, extremism is the new democracy…this is the usa doing
END israeli ILLEGAL COLONIAL APARTHEID WITH FEW NUKES WEAPONS!!! As this is the only solution for a peaceful MENA!!
Backward country at best
Israel is going to lose their prestige in the world and they're taking the United States down with them
The number of 120 dead Palestinians is way off. There are over 230 dead Palestinians including children who have been slaughtered just this year.
Israel will fall .
not occupied—disputed.
This video and this channel are antiseptic and need to be cancelled
All the time Israel is to blame what abouth what is done AGAINTS Israel their has never been an accusation AGAINTS Isreli attakers what do that is called
Home taken from Palestinians
Illegal settlements. Shame on every jew
You are occupying Palestine. Investigate every Jew. Leave Palestine.
Why does this Norwegian activist aid organization fund building when there are no approved building plans? We all know that legally the government of this territory is Israel because Jordan left in 1967, so governance is the responsibility of Israel until there is a final peace deal that will put some land in Israel and some in a new Palestinian state.
What is occupied territory! Think the world is sick. We all know whose land that is….Time memorial we have not had any people called Palestinians. Israel has existed as a nation since creation of the earth.
THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THE TRUTH OUT NO MORE SPIN NETANYAHUS BULL BULLDUST BULLSHIT PEACE FREEDOM JOY AMEN 😊 🙏
"Its Real" was giving a certain amount of land. How are they now allowed to just take more?.
Israel makes sure Palestine people have no functioning government. They assassinate the best and brightest.
The most reprehensible nation on Earth, Land Stealers, murderers, killing kids every day, if they were American Kids or British Kids killed everyday in Israel it would have been shut down years ago. Palestinians will be in paradise Whilst the Zionist Israeli Murdering soldiers add their leaders and those that support them will be in the depths of Hell for ever, Insha Allah…
Thank you Mr. Jan Egeland. The U.S. and other countries should, must and ought to Stop kissing the Israelis rotten asses.
The occupation that you are stating here is in reality an occupation by British and U.S. Special Elements. That is why there will never be peace in the entire ME specially with the Palestinians as long as that covert element is not recognized internationally.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY? CONDEMN THE US. HARD!
From the Africa to the Middle East, to Europe and Hong Kong, everything under the United States control is a humanitarian crisis. It's obvious to everyone that we're doing a horrible job trying to run the world, and it's time we let neighboring countries handle their own affairs without US intervention. Our first move and last move is always the same: SEND WEAPONS. We don't solve problem. We have ZERO diplomacy, all we know is to send weapons and it's not helping, it never has helped and sprinkling weapons onto a problem only exacerbates the situation.
It's time we packed up and stayed on our own side of the planet. We are the terrorists and we need to knock it off before the entire Eastern hemisphere unites and overthrows us.
love and support for Israel.
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Gaza should become an international peace zone as should Nepal and Tibet
Shame on Israel
Just like Chinese CR in Tibet
Israel is behaving like Nazis
💔💚🖤💜💔💛🧡💚💔💙🖤honest reporting 🙏🏻
Bullshit!
Zionism is a global threat, not just Pallistine ,you only need to read the Babylonian Talmud to know they are not Jews and they don't have a right to do Thea's things to people the Talmud is if the Pharisees and promotes crime's of extortion,rape and ethnic cleansing…and enslaving goyim (non Jewish )the cattle …the people they colonise become cattle …brave work to Jan ..it's a horrific situation
this is brutal racist injustice all you here from the main street media is (Ukraine propaganda) the fake jew-ish!!! people are the synagogue of there father Satan!!! damm devils judgment is coming for all Edomites and heathen🤕
Israel is a brutal colonial power, compliments of the United States. Israel's number one enabler. US Corporate media is complicit.
The occupation ended in 1967.
When arab countries are held accountable for all the Jewish lives and property they robbed, including Jordan you get to talk about the Israeli responses you don't like.
The jews is the spon of there father the devil 😈
The jews need to leave that is not their land they are European
Israel kills Palestinians even in peace times. If they respond with rocket attacks then it says they are the bad guys!!!
Thank you for standing agisnt small nation-big liers
there will be a time where the aggressor will suffer much worse than this…
Israel is the best occopier in the world.
What occupation? You are extremely biassed against Israel!