I filmed a settler pogrom. Now the Israeli media is smearing me
Basil al-Adraa writes in +972 October 6, 2021:
I was born in a small Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank called a-Tuwani to parents who both actively resist the Israeli occupation. In my region, Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, the Israeli army refuses to connect our villages to water and electricity, and soldiers come every week to destroy our homes in order to pressure us to leave our land. We face frequent violence by extremist Israeli settlers from nearby settlement outposts. Just last week, settlers rampaged through the village of Mufagara, smashing windows, overturning cars, and throwing stones — one of which hit and fractured the skull of a three-year-old boy.
I was in Mufagara last week, documenting the attack. This is nothing new for me: I have been documenting human rights violations by Israeli soldiers and settlers for several years as a journalist.