Go for another.
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Since the beginning of the essentially
random wave of stabbing attacks by young
Palestinians against Israelis, uh the
Israeli security forces have uh launched
new security procedures like this. uh
checkpoints where they search what they
see as suspicious young Palestinian
males, making sure they don't have
knives as they enter mixed areas of the
city. Most of the stabbing attacks have
been launched by Palestinians from East
Jerusalem. Um Palestinians living here
have uh have greater freedom of movement
into mixed and Jewish areas of the city.
It's a it's a difficult thing for the
Israeli security forces to prevent
really. Um it's a kind of leaderless
wave of attacks. Um anyone can be a
suspect. Any young kid could be carrying
a knife.
So, can you explain what what just what
happened now?
How does it make you feel being stopped
and searched like
this?
Over the past month, there's been a a
wave of of stabbing attacks against
Israeli against Jewish civilians. How do
you feel about that?
just caught one suspect here to take him
against the wall. They're searching him.
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Uh they're just making sure I'm not
bringing a knife into the old city.
Excellent. Thank you.
We're just walking in the Jewish area of
the old city. We bumped into
this loud, high-spirited demonstration.
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I'm inside. I'm
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We are strong. We stay in this country
no matter
what. Arabs can kill us. All the people
can say it's not our country, but it's
our country. Why do you think young
Palestinians, young Arabs have been
attacking? Because every time everybody
tell them kill, kill, kill kill. So this
is what we have. We are Jewish. Like in
Germany always people want to kill us
because we are the people got the
shoes place we study at are called
yeshivas and most of them have decided
to put us in lockdown saying we
shouldn't really go outside the Jewish
court of the old city and all the
yeshivas outside of Jerusalem have
basically banned their students from
coming
So last year it was the three boys that
were kidnapped. This year it was um the
the parents who were killed. And then
once something big happens, it starts to
escalate. There's a lot of checkpoints
like young Arabs your age and being
stopped by the Israeli army like you
know sort of pushed up against the wall
like you know empty their pockets. Um
how do you think that affects their
lives? like how how like how do you
think they see the situation? They
should all be checked because what we
what we want to prevent is like a
suicide bomber cuz it it has happened.
So it's just good to like like ask all
them to make sure like for security
wise. So then I do think it is a
necessity for them to have these metal
detectors that they put now at the front
of like most of the gates and then it
just stops like all these attacks
happening and thank God nothing's
happened in the in the Jewish quarter.
You can get a measure of the enhanced
security measures here in the old city.
The sort of paranoia, the fear um in
that obviously Jewish uh residents and
visitors are actually getting individual
escorts like armed guards taking them
around the city.
Just right here a few days ago, a family
of Jewish settlers were attacked in a
knife attack by a young Palestinian.
father's killed, the the mother and
child are still in hostel. And as a
result of that uh security crackdown, uh
the predominantly Palestinian owned
businesses here in the old city are
suffering. Business is down. They've got
no customers, they're saying. So, it's
leading to a further alienation of the
Palestinian population.
How has business been over the past few
weeks?
Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign
speech.
Why? Why do you think it's like this
now? Why is it suddenly started again?
Maybe, you know, it's like a pressure of
like a vacuum and maybe it opened the
open the door. It's not good to fight
with neighbor after neighbor fight must
have peace. Yes. So in the Palestinian
side, not to kill, not to call for
killing Jews. and the Jewish side open
the heart. Maybe we one day a good
football game between us. Okay. Maybe in
my generation. Okay. Do you think it can
be solved? Maybe. Maybe not can be
solved. Maybe it can be quiet. You know
when you have children, the children
fight until blood. First of all, quiet
between the children and play the same
game, eat the same food, respect father
and mother. Maybe it be peace between
the children until they grow up. You
understand?
It's the end of what's been a quiet day
in Jerusalem. There's been no major
security incidents. There's been,
instead, a heavy uh very visible uh
security presence checkpoints like this
one outside all the entrances to the old
city. The thing about this current wave
of violence is it's essentially
unpredictable. It's uh self-radicalizing
teenagers with uh home kitchen knives.
You can't tell who's a suspect. You
can't tell who's a likely victim. this
really visible security presence may
make uh Israelis may make Jewish
Jerusalem feel more secure, but if you
talk to Palestinians, they just say it's
essentially radicalizing young
Palestinians more, making them angrier,
making them resent the Israeli state
more. So ultimately, it could just lead
to a further uh sense of Palestinian
disengagement with the state.