Louis Theroux travels to the West Bank to meet some of the large and growing ultra-nationalist community of Israeli settlers in a new series for BBC iPlayer and BBC Two

Louis Theroux is returning to the West Bank for his latest documentary. In a BBC show titled Louis Theroux: The Settlers, the documentarian will travel to the disputed territory 15 years on from his doc The Ultra-Zionists.

Louis Theroux is set to return to the Palestinian West Bank to meet Israeli settlers for a new BBC show. The documentary makers said he wanted to give: “Insight into tribalism and the ways in which we can blind ourselves to the humanity of those around us” with the new project.

The documentary will look at the "fundamentalists" fueling "settler expansionism up close, and the human cost it entails."

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Louis Theroux will return to the Palestinian West Bank to meet Israeli settlers, and give an “insight into tribalism and the ways in which we can blind ourselves to the humanity of those around us”. The British documentarian, 54, previously fronted the 2010 documentary Ultra Zionists for the BBC about settlers living in the contested territory.