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00:00Footage published by the Israeli B'Tselem Human Rights Organization shows an Israeli
00:10settler shooting an unarmed Palestinian at point-blank range while an Israeli soldier
00:15stands behind him and does nothing.
00:18And in this security camera footage obtained by Reuters, settlers launch a surprise attack
00:23on a Palestinian village. These are far from isolated cases.
00:28The key issue here is impunity. There have been attacks by settlers, by Israeli security
00:33forces as well, against Palestinians in the West Bank. And by and large, we are seeing
00:37impunity.
00:39Attacks like these on Palestinian villages or farmland in the West Bank are being orchestrated
00:44by groups like Hashamir Yosh, who call themselves the Guardians of Judea and Samaria, using
00:49the biblical name for the West Bank. Officially a non-government organization, it has received
00:55funding in recent years from Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government. Now the U.S. has sanctioned
01:00the group, making it harder for the Israeli government and American donors to continue
01:05to support them. The Israeli prime minister denounced the move.
01:10Israel views with utmost severity the imposition of sanctions on citizens of Israel. The issue
01:15is in a pointed discussion with the U.S.
01:18It's the latest round of sanctions targeting extremist settlers, but so far the Biden administration
01:24has held off on sanctioning Israeli government ministers who've been leading the settlement
01:28expansion policy. On Thursday, though, the European Union's top diplomat said that the
01:34bloc must impose sanctions on some ministers accused of fomenting racial hatred.
01:39The call from the minister of foreign affairs of Israel to displace people from the West
01:44Bank, this is completely unacceptable.
01:49More than 500,000 Israelis reside in more than 100 settlements across the territory,
01:55which are illegal under international law and frequently cited as a barrier to peace.
02:00Since the start of the Gaza war, at least 640 Palestinians have been killed in the West
02:05Bank by Israeli troops or settlers.