Life in the West Bank under Israel's deepening occupation

“If you hadn’t been here, he might have called us and we might have been arrested or beaten up - and this happens daily,” Tayseer Abu Mufreh, from the Tuqu’ municipal council, told the Guardian after a vehicle with two armed men pulled up while filming. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/user/theguardian?sub_confirmation=1 “The Palestinian civilians in this village are very worried - afraid for their children, afraid for their land,” Mufreh added. In a new series, In Search of Palestine, reporter @matthewcassel is travelling through the West Bank to document what daily life looks like under deepening occupation. It is more than two years since Israel’s war in Gaza began and the West Bank has become an increasingly volatile front in the Israel-Palestine conflict. While international recognition of a Palestinian state has gathered momentum, the situation on the ground is moving in the opposite direction. The declaration of a ceasefire in Gaza – which has not stopped the Israeli military killing Palestinians there either – has reduced the political pressure on other governments to act. Israel’s government has advanced new annexation legislation, the rate of settlement growth is accelerating and daily life for Palestinians is becoming more restricted and precarious. Starting in Hebron and moving north to Ramallah, villages outside the city and finally Nablus, Matthew meets people across generations to ask: what does the idea of a Palestinian state mean today? #westbank #palestine #idf #israel #israelisettlers #israelisettlements #occupiedwestbank #middleeast