US Ambassador To Israel Calls Settler Violence In West Bank ‘Act of Terror’

September 05, 2026 6:52 PM ET U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee stood in a Palestinian West Bank village Saturday and told his hosts that the settlers attacking them were committing terror.Huckabee condemned Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank again during a visit to Turmus Ayya, calling the conduct an “act of terror,” according to the Associated Press (AP). (RELATED: Senate To Decide If Trump Admin Must Provide Public Details About Increasing West Bank Violence)“If there are squatters that come in and put up their own flags and take possession of something that does not belong to them, if they burn a car, if they torch a mosque, if they go into someone’s home and vandalize it, paint graffiti on the walls, that’s a criminal act. But it extends beyond a criminal act. It