Israeli settlers step up attacks on Palestinian farms, expanding West Bank outposts

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Nadav Weiman, founder of Breaking the SilenceNadav Weiman pulls up in an SUV to the small Palestinian sheepherding community of Zanuta, high in the West Bank's South Hebron Hills. The small grouping of stone houses and newly built school was once home to 250 people and thousands of sheep. The community now lies abandoned.

The villagers fled at the end of November, chased away by violent Israeli settlers living in outposts that Israel hasn't authorized, according to groups documenting violence in the West Bank.

Weiman was an Israeli special forces soldier between 2005 and 2008 and served all over the West Bank. Today he's deputy director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli army veterans that advocates to end Israel's military occupation of the territory.

TVNL Comment: It's all a land grab to push out every Palestinian and claim the land.  Where is the rest of the world's outcry?

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