Israel's settler movement celebrates as sparse outpost of Yatziv becomes settlement in a month скачать в хорошем качестве

Israel's settler movement celebrates as sparse outpost of Yatziv becomes settlement in a month

(20 Jan 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Yatziv (previously called Shdema), West Bank - 19 January 2026 1. Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Finance Minister (far right) and Orit Strook, Israeli Minister for Settlement (left of Smotrich) cutting red ribbon 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Finance Minister: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 3-4++ “We are standing stable here in Israel. This is our land, our state. We are here. We're going to be here forever. We will never establish a Palestinian state here. And we are taking control all over the area. We are building more than 68 new settlements here in Judea and Samaria. We are taking off, out of the table, the idea of creating a Palestinian state, it will be a terror state, and we are here forever.” 3. Pan from vehicle to West Bank city 4. Various of bulldozer working, Palestinian buildings in background ASSOCIATED PRESS Beit Sahour, West Bank - 15 January 2026 5. Beit Sahour city and the settlement outpost in Ush Ghurab area 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Younis Arar, Head of the International Relation Unit at the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission in Bethlehem: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 7 AND PARTIALLY BY SHOT8++ "This area is a very strategic area where if this colonial project succeeds, it will isolate Beit Sahour from its eastern Palestinian surroundings as well as its connection will isolated from Jerusalem." 7. Wide of Har Homa Israeli settlement as seen from Beit Sahour city 8. Various of Beit Sahour municipality building 9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Elias Isseid, Mayor of Beit Sahour: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT10++ "The mere establishment of this settlement outpost in this area will limit development. Geographically, it will limit natural development and restrict citizens' benefits from this area in terms of agriculture, recreation, or as a breathing space for the city of Beit Sahour, with all the elements in this area, such as parks or public institutions." 10. Various of closed park and empty soccer field near the area of Ush Ghurab STORYLINE: Israeli government ministers celebrated on Monday the new settlement of Yatziv, previously called Shdema, in the occupied West Bank adjacent to the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour. The inauguration reflected the culmination of Israeli settlers' decades-long struggle to turn this site, overlooking the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour, into a settlement. Over the years, they fended off plans to use the land for public works there, galvanized protesters to take over a partially-abandoned military base as a cultural center. Two months ago, when the time was ripe, they erected some caravans at the site. One month later, it was legalized as “Yatziv," the Hebrew word for “stable,” in a process that monitors say moved with unprecedented speed. “We are standing stable here in Israel,” said Finance Minister and key settler leader Bezalel Smotrich, in comments to The Associated Press at the ceremony. “This is our land, our state. We are here. We’re going to be here forever. We will never establish a Palestinian state here and we are taking control all over the area.” AP spoke to five settlers for this story, who said the movement has reached an apotheosis point. Settlers put up caravans at Yatziv two days after Palestinian attackers stabbed an Israeli to death and wounded three more in the West Bank in November at a nearby junction. Palestinians from Beit Sahour owned the areas around the camp, said Beit Sahour mayor Elias Isseid. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...