{"id":319015,"date":"2026-08-03T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=319015"},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:16:28","slug":"complicit-how-the-west-is-helping-israel-seize-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/08\/complicit-how-the-west-is-helping-israel-seize-the-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Complicit: How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>16 Jul 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. More than 230 of them are children. Attacks by settlers on rural Palestinian communities have increased, destroying property and capturing livestock, driving families from their homes. At the same time, the Israeli military has launched a large-scale assault on the densely populated Jenin refugee camp.<\/p>\n<p>This film provides a comprehensive picture of the tactics the Israeli government uses to support the settlers and then, through infrastructure and building programmes, annex Palestinian land.<\/p>\n<p>Western governments claim to oppose Israel\u2019s occupation of the West Bank and uphold international law. However, undercover reporters from Al Jazeera expose how donors based in some Western countries fund the expansion of illegal settlements.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera journalists secretly film meetings with pro-settler organisations in Israel, claiming to be donors based in the UK looking to make large contributions to their projects. They\u2019re told how funds can be paid as tax-deductible donations to charities in the UK and Canada who then pay the money on to their organisations. It is unlawful for charities in the UK and Canada to use donations to support the illegal settlement of the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Complicit: How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank | Al Jazeera Investigates\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/otagSl7eYMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 Jul 2026 &#8211; Since 7 Oct 2023, Israel has killed over 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank; more than 230, children. Attacks by settlers on Palestinian communities have increased, destroying property and capturing livestock, driving families from their homes. The IDF has launched a large-scale assault on the densely populated Jenin refugee camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[3287,1559,532,405,1854,101,100,1199,865,88,2416,427,3534,2897,880,99,70,965,1025],"class_list":["post-319015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-anti-zionism","tag-collective-punishment","tag-colonialism","tag-colonization","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian-holocaust","tag-sociocide","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319016,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319015\/revisions\/319016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}