foreign
since the beginning of the essentially
random wave of stabbing attacks by young
palestinians against israelis
the israeli security forces have
launched new security procedures like
this
checkpoints where they search what they
see as suspicious young palestinian
males
making sure that they have knives as
they enter mixed areas of the city
most of the stabbing attacks have been
launched by palestinians from east
jerusalem
palestinians living here have 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 it's a kind of leaderless
wave of attacks
anyone can be a suspect any young kid
could be carrying a knife
so you can explain what what does happen
now
how does it make you feel being stopped
and searched like this
israeli against jewish civilians how do
you feel about that
foreign
searching
thank you
we're just walking in the jewish area of
the old city we've bumped into this
loud uh high spirited demonstrations
is
why do you think young palestinians
young arabs have been attacked because
every time
everybody said i'm killed so this is
what we have we are jewish
like in germany always
people want to kill us because we are
the people god they choose
the places we study are called yeshua's
and most of them have decided to put us
a knock down
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 into jerusalem so last year it
was the
three boys that were kidnapped this year
it was
um 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 are being stopped
by the israeli army
like push up against the wall like you
know empty their pockets
um how do you think that affects their
lives like
how like how do you think they see the
situation
they should all be checked because what
we what we want to prevent like a
suicide bomber because it does happen
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
stopped
like all these attacks happening and
thank god nothing's happened in uh
in the jewish quarter
you get a measure of the enhanced
security measures here in the old city
the paranoia the fear
in that obviously jewish
residents and visitors are actually
getting individual escorts like armed
guards taken around the city
just right here a few days ago a family
of jewish settlers were attacked in a
knife attacked by a
young palestinian the father was killed
the mother and child are still in hustle
and as a result of that security
crackdown uh the
predominantly palestinian-owned
businesses here in the old city are
suffering
businesses 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
why why do you think it's like this now
why is it suddenly started again maybe
you know it's like a treasure of a like
a vacuum and maybe it opened the day
opened the door it's not good to fight
with neighbor after a neighbor fight
must have peace yes
so in the palestinian side not to kill
them to call for killing jews and the
jewish side
open the heart maybe it's be 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 so maybe 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 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 of heavy very
visible security presence checkpoints
like this one
outside all the entrances the old city
the thing about this current wave of
violence
is it's essentially unpredictable it's
self-radicalizing teenagers with home
kitchen knives
you can't tell who's the suspect you
can't tell who's a likely victim
this really visible security presence
may make israelis may make jewish
jerusalemites
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
sense of palestinian disengagement with
the state
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