Funerals held for Palestinian teenagers killed in occupied West Bank

**Ankur Desai** (0:00)
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Uncle Desai, and in the early hours of Friday the 4th of September, these are our main stories. Funerals are held for two Palestinian teenagers killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. Argentina's president ups the ante in a dispute with the UK by threatening to impose tough sanctions on companies that exploit the Falkland Islands' oil reserves. And rescue efforts continue in Nepal, where hundreds of workers are trapped in hydropower plant tunnels after devastating floods.

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We begin in the Middle East, where funerals have taken place for two Palestinian teenagers who were killed during an incursion into their village in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers and soldiers. The deaths come amid a recent surge in settler violence and mounting criticism of the Israeli military's role in the attacks. The IDF said it's investigating Wednesday's incident. Our Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson sent this report from the village of Al-Mahir.

**Lucy Williamson** (1:34)
One by one, Al-Mahir is losing its sons. Khalil Abu Aliya was 16, shot dead in the middle of the village as settlers backed by Israeli soldiers seized dozens of sheep in a disputed claim of ownership.
His body carried for burial alongside that of 19-year-old Omar Al-Nassan, also shot dead yesterday. This village has held six funerals this year for men and boys killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers here.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:13)
The killing of our young men has become a regular ritual, just part of our life. When your son walks in the street, you expect that he could be injured or killed, arrested by the army or beaten and dragged in the streets.

**Lucy Williamson** (2:28)
It was here, right in the middle of the village, that both teenagers were shot dead. Khalil down this street and Omar just over here. Local residents say there were Israeli snipers on many of the rooftops here, and Israel's army says its forces fired in response to a violent riot. But that doesn't address the wider situation that's unfolding across the occupied West Bank, where Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli soldiers, are expanding their attacks and incursions further inside Palestinian villages. And Palestinians are being forced off their land.
Sheep farming has become a routine tool for extending settler control over the occupied West Bank.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:14)
In my village, I don't have any protection. My country doesn't have anything to do for me, because it doesn't have an army or anything.
This is life, you know. This is my life. I can't change it. If you want to change it, you will be killed.

**Lucy Williamson** (3:34)
Settler outposts, illegal under both international and Israeli law, have encircled Al Moriah over the past few years, backed by Israel's fiercely pro-settlement government and protected by Israeli forces. This village, now facing a daily choice, losing its land or losing its people.

**Ankur Desai** (3:55)
Lucy Williamson with that report.
The Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean have been at the center of a long-running sovereignty dispute between the UK and Argentina. It's recognized as a British overseas territory. But Argentina is adamant that what it calls Las Malvinas belongs to them. And our president Javier Milei has doubled up tensions by announcing sanctions on oil drilling in the area. His national address was translated live by a BBC producer.

**Javier Milei** (4:25)
The Falkland Islands are Argentinian.
Because of history and because of law, there's no disagreement over it. The islands have always been part of Argentina since our origins. If today Argentina doesn't implement international law in a few months, the UK could just take control of the oil reserves under our sea.

**Ankur Desai** (4:50)
A Latin America correspondent, Will Grant, told me more about what President Milei had to say.

**Will Grant** (4:56)
Well, he began obviously surrounded by his cabinet in the presidential palace, a televised address to the nation, prepared statement though, and then said he was setting out to the world, as he put it, Argentina's position on the Falklands. Las Malvinas son Argentinas, he said, the Falklands are Argentine. That has been at the heart of their claim, as we heard in that clip there, that that has never changed. He basically argued that there could be no legitimate claim to self-defense by the islanders, given the land itself, as he put it, had been taken illegally.