:00:14. > :00:20.This is a so-called 'price tag'. It may look like graffiti, but those
:00:20. > :00:24.who do it are branded Jewish terrorists.
:00:24. > :00:30.They are just teenagers, but they say they will do anything to keep
:00:30. > :00:33.the land that God gave them. There is hardly any other way of
:00:33. > :00:38.describing it other than outright terrorism. This week the Middle
:00:38. > :00:42.East's been rocked by more violence and Islamic protests.
:00:42. > :00:48.Tonight, we report on the long- running dispute that goes to the
:00:48. > :00:54.very heart of tensions in the region.
:00:54. > :01:00.Is Israel doing enough to crack down on its young enemy within?
:01:00. > :01:10.TRANSLATION: If it helps me to stay in my homeland, they can call me a
:01:10. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:24.It's 2.00am in East Jerusalem. The Arab area of the city.
:01:24. > :01:32.It is dangerous for Israeli youths to be here, especially when they
:01:32. > :01:42.are up to no good. This is a price tag gang. They've
:01:42. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:06.The Jewish youths say that they are They want to send a message to
:02:06. > :02:16.their own government too. There is a price to pay for any attempt to
:02:16. > :02:25.
:02:25. > :02:27.They might look like vandals, but price taggers are a new and
:02:27. > :02:36.dangerous phenomena. Branded Jewish terrorist, even by their own
:02:36. > :02:41.government. And this is where they come from...
:02:41. > :02:46.The hilltops of the West Bank. Arab territory, occupied by Israel since
:02:46. > :02:50.the 1967 War. For thousands of years this land's
:02:50. > :02:55.been disputed between Arab tribes and the tribes of Israel.
:02:55. > :03:05.Now there is a new tribe. They call themselves the Hilltop Youth. They
:03:05. > :03:16.
:03:16. > :03:20.have sworn to sacrifice everything Across the West Bank, there is a
:03:20. > :03:24.war of attrition going on between the Hilltop Youth and their own
:03:24. > :03:29.security forces. The Israeli police are trying to stop them
:03:29. > :03:34.establishing new footholds and outposts on this land. The price
:03:34. > :03:41.tag's are the youth youth youth's revenge.
:03:41. > :03:45.-- are the Hilltop Youth's revenge. Schools are out for summer. Dozens
:03:45. > :03:49.of teenagers are gravitating to the hilltops. Children whose parents
:03:49. > :03:55.came here for the ideological reasons.
:03:55. > :03:59.The hilltop, the Hilltop Youth, they are rebuilding the shacks that
:03:59. > :04:03.the army are demolishing to show there is a Jewish presence here and
:04:03. > :04:08.extend it over the area. How many times have the army come
:04:08. > :04:13.and knocked this down already? TRANSLATION: Two months they take
:04:13. > :04:18.it down. Six or seven times now, but there is a group of hard-core
:04:19. > :04:22.Hilltop Youth, boys and girls that stay here.
:04:23. > :04:29.For religious reasons, there is a different shack for the girls, but
:04:29. > :04:34.they are just as zealous as the boys. Some have been caught for
:04:34. > :04:38.price tagging. In February, cameras picked up an Israeli girl in a
:04:38. > :04:45.Palestinian village. She slashed open sacks of building materials.
:04:45. > :04:50.Nearby, the cars were sprayed with graffiti, saying "revenge" and
:04:50. > :04:58.insulting the Prophet Mohammed. The girl caught on camera does not deny
:04:58. > :05:03.it. Lenny Goldberg is under house arrest. She has never spoken
:05:03. > :05:10.publicly before. -- mother Moriah Goldberg.
:05:10. > :05:16.A price tagger is when a government stops us from building, it has a
:05:16. > :05:24.price. Maybe it makes them think twice before they do this again.
:05:24. > :05:27.She lives in the ultra nationalist settlement of Tapuach. Here they
:05:27. > :05:34.are celebrating, the youths are wearing the scull bone and symbol
:05:34. > :05:37.of the price tagger. There is a long history of hatred
:05:38. > :05:47.and violence in Tapuach. The people have been killed and injured on
:05:48. > :05:48.
:05:48. > :05:55.both sides. Moriah is following in the family
:05:55. > :06:03.tradition. Her father was a disciple, whose father was outlawed
:06:03. > :06:07.in the 1980s. She is idealistic.... Lenny
:06:07. > :06:12.Goldberg is seemingly pretty unconcerned about what she has done.
:06:12. > :06:18.There was a camera which showed a picture of a girl going into a car,
:06:18. > :06:22.doing some things it looked like my daughter may have done that, but I
:06:22. > :06:27.educated her properly, so it could So you are proud? I'm glad that I
:06:27. > :06:32.have a child that cares so much about her people.
:06:32. > :06:37.TRANSLATION: Faithless Jews who do not fear God can call me a
:06:37. > :06:41.terrorist. I don't care what they say about me, I only care what God
:06:41. > :06:47.thinks. I act for him alone. There have been hundreds of price
:06:47. > :06:50.tags, involving not just graffiti, but violence and intimidation.
:06:50. > :06:56.Petrol bombs have been thrown at Arab cars.
:06:56. > :07:01.Some occupants have been seriously injured.
:07:01. > :07:07.Security cameras have caught the torching of trucks in Palestinian
:07:07. > :07:15.villages. Woiingly of all, the arson attacks on the mosques on the
:07:15. > :07:21.West Bank in Israel. At least in some aspects of what
:07:21. > :07:23.the violence settlers connect w, there is hardly any other way of
:07:23. > :07:27.describing it other than outright terrorism.
:07:27. > :07:31.The Prime Minister, the President, the speaker of our Parliament have
:07:31. > :07:35.spoken out forcefully against this type of violence. They have gone to
:07:35. > :07:40.the police, to the security services to have no tolerance for
:07:40. > :07:44.this phenomena whatsoever. Israeli homes built on occupied
:07:44. > :07:50.land are illegal, according to international law. Israel regards
:07:50. > :07:56.the West Bank as disputed land. It has built 120 settlements.
:07:56. > :08:00.Around 300,000 Israelis now live here.
:08:01. > :08:05.But there are also 100 small outposts, scattered on strategic
:08:05. > :08:14.hilltops, some of which are illegal under Israeli law because they are
:08:14. > :08:20.built on private Palestinian land. So are you going to evacuate and
:08:20. > :08:24.dismantle the illegal outposts where the Supreme Court orders you
:08:24. > :08:28.to, those built on private Palestinian land? Israel is a
:08:28. > :08:32.country of law it is clear, where the ruling has been so that the
:08:32. > :08:39.buildings have to come down, they will be coming down.
:08:39. > :08:43.In the hills above Jericho, a lone army jeep guards a steep track to a
:08:43. > :08:50.isolated outpost which the army demolished overnight. We are not
:08:50. > :08:56.allowed to go in. It is declared a closed military zone.
:08:56. > :09:00.A young settler trudges from the outpost with her children.
:09:00. > :09:10.Jafa is heavily pregnant and feels betrayed by her own forces that
:09:10. > :09:12.
:09:12. > :09:16.have thrown her out. They hit my husband in front of the
:09:16. > :09:21.kids because he was trying to pro ptect us. We are going back to
:09:21. > :09:26.build this up. News of the eviction is spreading.
:09:27. > :09:31.An MP from an ultra nationalist party has arrived. With him are
:09:31. > :09:41.angry Hilltop Youths. One of them tries to break through to the
:09:41. > :10:05.
:10:05. > :10:11.outpost, but the police are having The next day, the police let us
:10:12. > :10:16.into the outpost, the destruction is total.
:10:16. > :10:20.But already some Hilltop Youth have come to help rebuild here, where
:10:20. > :10:30.they say the tribe of Israel crossed the Jordan River into the
:10:30. > :10:37.
:10:37. > :10:42.New walls have gone up overnight around the synagogue. We find Jafa
:10:42. > :10:46.back with her family in the rubble. You are starting to rebuild? Yes,
:10:46. > :10:51.we are starting to build again. More families are going to join us.
:10:51. > :10:58.More people are coming? Yes. After five minutes we are told to
:10:58. > :11:02.leave by the police. Later that day, Jafa's faement are
:11:02. > :11:08.ordered out too. -- family are orderered out too,
:11:08. > :11:11.but there is a different story in other, larger outposts. These are
:11:11. > :11:15.established with a nod and a wink from the Israeli authorities.
:11:15. > :11:19.Places where the government has fought legal efforts to dismantle
:11:19. > :11:29.them. This is Migron, the largest outpost
:11:29. > :11:37.on the West Bank. High on a hill above a Palestinian village.
:11:37. > :11:42.Established 13 years ago in this strategic location with an antenna
:11:42. > :11:47.and a few caravans, now 50 families live here. I first came to Migron
:11:47. > :11:53.in January and met the Gutmans, who build here, they say, with
:11:53. > :11:56.encouragement from the government. After the house was destroyed...
:11:57. > :12:02.TRANSLATION: The government of Israel established this community.
:12:02. > :12:05.They brought 50 caravans here and built infrastructure, water and
:12:05. > :12:10.electricity. No-one came and built here
:12:10. > :12:15.illegally. But the Guttmans and two other
:12:15. > :12:19.families lost their homes last autumn. It is part of a seven-year
:12:19. > :12:28.legal battle in which the government sided with the settlers
:12:28. > :12:34.to resist getting rid of Migron. The government was forced by the
:12:34. > :12:36.court to begin demolitions. Tammi and her husband tried to stop their
:12:36. > :12:42.own forces destroying their own home.
:12:42. > :12:44.TRANSLATION: The police pushed me violently with shields and their
:12:44. > :12:53.boots. I couldn't believe our government
:12:53. > :12:59.would treat us so badly. 47 houses still remained in Migron.
:12:59. > :13:02.I went to see one of the founders, a pine year, a Hilltop Youth of his
:13:02. > :13:11.day. He claims that the settlers
:13:11. > :13:15.cemented their rights by buying Palestinian land here.
:13:15. > :13:19.TRANSLATION: As for the land of Migron, we have official documents
:13:19. > :13:23.saying that we own most of it. We went to the registered owner,
:13:23. > :13:28.bought it and got the rights to use and to build on the land. That is
:13:28. > :13:32.the end to it. He had papers but would not let me
:13:32. > :13:36.read them or film them to protect the lives of Palestinians, he said,
:13:36. > :13:42.who could be killed for selling to Jews.
:13:42. > :13:46.Yet it is an Israeli human rights group, Peace Now, which wages the
:13:46. > :13:49.long legal battle against the government and the settlers over
:13:49. > :13:55.Migron. Specifically, this is built on
:13:55. > :14:01.private Palestinian land it is land grab. It is theft of the land.
:14:01. > :14:07.We were brought to burqa, the Arab village below Migron, to meet one
:14:07. > :14:11.of the Palestinians involved in the court case.
:14:12. > :14:21.This family have lived here for generations. From the roof toop
:14:22. > :14:22.
:14:22. > :14:31.This land, which the settlers have built on, is my land. I have to
:14:31. > :14:34.look at this every day and it is very painful. Abdul Munaim Moatam
:14:34. > :14:43.says that his documents rather than those produced by the settlers in
:14:44. > :14:47.court prove that his family owns the land. TRANSLATION: They had
:14:47. > :14:57.fake sales documents claiming that my grandfather, who died in 1960
:14:57. > :15:02.and is buried here, had sold them his land in America in 1994.
:15:02. > :15:09.court battle over Migron has sparked dozens of price tags. Hagit
:15:09. > :15:16.Ofran has been targeted three times. They came in the night into my home
:15:16. > :15:21.and sprayed all the stairway and my door. Death to Hagit Ofran. And
:15:21. > :15:26.hello from Migron. And were you afraid when you had these threats
:15:26. > :15:33.against your life? I am afraid to be afraid. I don't want to be
:15:33. > :15:41.afraid. So I am OK. Then we hear about a new price tag at the
:15:41. > :15:48.Palestinian olive grove in Burqa. They have completely broken off! We
:15:48. > :15:56.find dozens of young trees smashed and broken. So who do you think did
:15:57. > :16:02.this? The settlers. A shepherd saw four of them two nights ago. They
:16:02. > :16:10.were young. We fear they will cause more disruption in the future
:16:10. > :16:15.because they will not be stopped. The most provocative price tag in
:16:15. > :16:23.Burqa was at the mosque, seven months ago. It was in retaliation
:16:23. > :16:30.for Israeli army action against the outposts. Prayer mats were burned,
:16:30. > :16:35.insults sprayed, war declared on the walls. If these extremists
:16:35. > :16:40.succeed, if we have heaven forbid a mosque or something go up in smoke,
:16:40. > :16:49.this could prove smote extremism on their side. -- promoter extremism.
:16:49. > :16:56.We have to stump up this phenomenon. There have -- stamp out this
:16:57. > :17:06.phenomenon. There have been young Orthodox Jews making an early goal
:17:07. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:13.visit to Arabic villages. They know Last year, two Palestinian youths
:17:13. > :17:21.from this village broke into a nearby Israeli settlement and
:17:21. > :17:28.murdered five members of one family, including a baby. In this war, the
:17:28. > :17:32.spray can is a weapon on both sides. These youths have come to paint out
:17:32. > :17:36.anti-Jewish graffiti on ancient Jewish tombs here. Their rituals
:17:36. > :17:42.involve prayer and dancing. They make a point of doing it in front
:17:42. > :17:48.of the mosque. A few months ago, one of them was shot by a
:17:48. > :17:52.Palestinian policeman while illegally entering this area.
:17:52. > :17:57.bullet came in the back window, into his neck, out of his mouth and
:17:57. > :18:01.through the front window. The driver did not even notice anything.
:18:01. > :18:10.Then Ben Joseph tipped forward on his knees, covered in blood. We got
:18:10. > :18:13.to the checkpoint, took him out, and he was dead. The youths are
:18:13. > :18:23.constantly on edge, thinking they have been spotted by a Palestinian
:18:23. > :18:37.
:18:37. > :18:46.In the past two years, 14 Israelis and 24 Palestinians have been
:18:46. > :18:50.killed on the West Bank. The peace process between Israelis and
:18:50. > :18:55.Palestinians is already in serious trouble, and the price tag war is
:18:55. > :19:04.making it worse. Yitzhar is a settlement with a hardcore
:19:04. > :19:12.reputation. Even the signs to it say death to Arabs. Many hilltop
:19:12. > :19:22.youth live and study here, and the Shiva could be a hotbed of
:19:22. > :19:22.
:19:22. > :19:25.extremism. -- yeshiva. It has been raided and students have been
:19:25. > :19:30.arrested for price-tags. One of the peoples was involved in a mosque
:19:30. > :19:34.burning. It's our and its eight outposts are built on a hill in the
:19:34. > :19:37.middle of five Arab villages. There is bad blood between the two
:19:38. > :19:47.communities. People have been killed on both sides and the
:19:47. > :19:54.Israeli army's the constant presence here. I saw the terrorist.
:19:54. > :20:00.I did not know he was a terrorist. He tried to stab me. Three years
:20:00. > :20:04.ago, Toviah Statman was attacked by a Palestinian intruder. I struggled
:20:04. > :20:09.with him and managed to throw his life over the balcony. He saw he
:20:09. > :20:19.could not kill me, it so he threw me over the balcony and ran away to
:20:19. > :20:20.
:20:20. > :20:27.his village. I managed to climb back up and alert my father. When
:20:27. > :20:30.my son came to me, he had seven stab wounds full of blood. He was
:20:30. > :20:40.struggling with the Arab youth who tried to stab him in the neck and
:20:40. > :20:40.
:20:40. > :20:44.stomach. Thank God he did not manage to kill him. The Palestinian
:20:44. > :20:50.came from Assira al Qabilya, the village below. Here, they see
:20:50. > :20:55.things differently. Khadra Makhlouf has been filming confrontations
:20:55. > :20:58.with the settlers for an Israeli human rights group. Whenever any of
:20:58. > :21:02.the settlers come down here, the first thing I do is take out my
:21:02. > :21:11.camera. The footage is proof it is them attacking us, not the other
:21:11. > :21:19.way round as they claim. In May, Khadra Makhlouf film a group of
:21:19. > :21:24.settlers coming down the hill towards Assira al Qabilya. When the
:21:24. > :21:31.settlers came down, they started fires. But when more arrived, our
:21:31. > :21:33.Murray -- young men came out to stop them. They saw that the
:21:33. > :21:39.settlers were armed and they decided to light bonfires to
:21:39. > :21:45.obstruct them. The young Palestinians began throwing stones.
:21:45. > :21:55.One of the men on the hill that day was Nimer Fathi. We would try to
:21:55. > :22:01.
:22:01. > :22:07.put out the fire and then they I was shot in the ear, and another
:22:07. > :22:10.two guys were shot. The Israeli army had come down the hill with
:22:10. > :22:18.the settlers, but they did not stop them shooting the unarmed
:22:18. > :22:28.Palestinians. When the settlers shot one of our men in front of the
:22:28. > :22:35.army, I was filming them. Of course the army did nothing. Nimer Fathi
:22:35. > :22:45.was carried off the hill and taken to hospital. They want to take our
:22:45. > :22:51.
:22:51. > :22:56.land against our will, destroy it, Back in Yitzhar, they say residents
:22:56. > :23:01.simply went to put out fires started by the Palestinians. They
:23:01. > :23:06.were attacked by about 100 Arabs with frogs. At this stage, the army
:23:06. > :23:09.had not arrived and there was clear life threatening danger to our fire
:23:09. > :23:15.squad. Our supplement security people were forced to shoot
:23:15. > :23:25.according to the rules of engagement the army tells us to
:23:25. > :23:29.follow. But Khadra Makhlouf's video shows the soldiers were there.
:23:29. > :23:34.have not done nearly enough to stem and prevent those acts from
:23:34. > :23:38.happening, given that Israel is the occupying power. It follows that it
:23:38. > :23:42.has direct responsibility in a security sense for the welfare for
:23:42. > :23:48.the people occupied. It is responsible for preventing those
:23:48. > :23:52.acts of violence. You have a tense from the Palestinian side and from
:23:52. > :23:55.others to try to interrupt the public order and the army's
:23:55. > :23:59.responsibility is to make sure public order is maintained. We have
:23:59. > :24:04.seen a shooting in the Yitzhar area recently where the army seemed to
:24:04. > :24:08.stand by its while the settlers shot an unarmed Palestinian. Every
:24:08. > :24:11.incident like that is thoroughly investigated. The army told us the
:24:11. > :24:16.soldiers made tactical decisions in the field to bring an end to the
:24:16. > :24:24.violence. No setter has been charged, but a police inquiry is
:24:24. > :24:30.still going on. -- no settler. The Israeli army is not just accused of
:24:30. > :24:34.standing by. The institution most respected by Israelis has become a
:24:34. > :24:43.target of the Hilltop Youth as well. And that has caused great soul-
:24:43. > :24:49.searching in Israel. One of the few price taggers Court and
:24:49. > :24:55.successfully prosecuted is this young man. Alex Ostrovsky, another
:24:55. > :24:59.founder of Migron, was imprisoned for damaging vehicles in a military
:24:59. > :25:04.base. He led a group of youths who clashed with the army while cutting
:25:04. > :25:09.the border fence with Jordan. night before the attack on the base,
:25:09. > :25:16.the army destroyed three homes in Migron. Not Arabs, but the army and
:25:16. > :25:20.the police. If someone destroys my home, I don't care if he is Arab or
:25:20. > :25:28.Jew. As far as I am concerned, he destroyed my house, and therefore
:25:28. > :25:34.he is my enemy. I met Alex the day he was released, after six months
:25:34. > :25:41.in prison. He is still considered a guru among the Hilltop Youth. Some
:25:41. > :25:45.people have called you a Jewish terrorists. A terrorist, a freedom
:25:45. > :25:49.fighter, it depends where he is an Tui is with. It is all the same
:25:49. > :25:58.thing. If it helps me stay in my homeland, they can call me a
:25:58. > :26:03.terrace. Two weeks ago the Supreme Court finally ruled. Migron had to
:26:03. > :26:09.be evacuated. Its buildings had to be dismantled. The Hilltop Youth
:26:09. > :26:14.protested but were dealt with. The Palestinians have not got their
:26:14. > :26:19.land back. It is still under Israeli army control. The settlers
:26:19. > :26:23.of Migron mood, but less than two miles down the road, to any
:26:23. > :26:33.settlement on occupied land. They got three homes at a cost to the
:26:33. > :26:37.
:26:37. > :26:42.state of �10 million. -- 33 homes. Migron will stay. There is still a
:26:42. > :26:46.presence here and new ones, too. We have achieved a lot. Doesn't it
:26:46. > :26:51.make a mockery of getting rid of illegal outposts if you are giving
:26:51. > :26:57.those people nice new apartments just down the road. But we are
:26:57. > :27:01.encouraging them to voluntarily relocate to get off the off the --
:27:01. > :27:04.to get off the land that Palestinians say is their land. We
:27:04. > :27:11.are ultimately moving forward with implementing decisions of the
:27:11. > :27:18.Supreme Court. Peace talks with the Palestinians aimed at establishing
:27:18. > :27:23.two states side-by-side of Fraser. The continuing growth of the
:27:23. > :27:33.settlements, 50,000 settlements in the last three years, remains the
:27:33. > :27:34.
:27:34. > :27:38.biggest stumbling block. Is a -- Israel using delaying tactics? You
:27:38. > :27:41.are adding those people into the settlement figures over also that
:27:41. > :27:45.the settlement figures are growing. Because the status of the
:27:45. > :27:50.settlements will be determined in peace talks. Ultimately, we have
:27:50. > :27:57.asked the Palestinians how can resolve this issue unless we talk?
:27:57. > :28:00.I see the viability of what remains of it, this solution. Giving way
:28:00. > :28:07.under the heavy weight of that settlement enterprise and
:28:07. > :28:10.associated acts of violence from the settlers. Israel has formed a
:28:10. > :28:14.new task force to combat Jewish terror, but the Hilltop Youth of
:28:14. > :28:20.keeping up the pressure. They have been eight more price-tags since
:28:20. > :28:26.Migron. I am proud of what I did. I hope God gives me more strength to
:28:26. > :28:34.continue acting for the nation of Israel. Would you do it again?
:28:34. > :28:39.hope so, very much. Regardless of what happens to the peace process,
:28:39. > :28:46.the Government will have to tackle this threat within, or else it
:28:46. > :28:50.risks spiralling out of control. Next week, the new the three Rs,