Palestinian American family recounts siege of West Bank home by Israeli settlers

Israeli settlers laid siege to the home of an American Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank, sparking condemnation from the U.S. ambassador and an Israeli military response. Nick Schifrin spoke with Qusai and Ahmed Ridi from the house in Qusra, and Qusai's brother, Loui Ridi, who helped translate this conversat

U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called settlers besieging a West Bank home of an American-Palestinian family "terrorists."

The military’s failure to keep extremists away from two Palestinian families trapped in their West Bank homes made clear the chaos gripping the Israeli-occupied territory.

QUSRA, West Bank (AP) — For five nights, Israeli settlers surrounded three Palestinian homes on the outskirts of a town in the occupied West Bank, preventing the families from leaving safely as their food and water supplies dwindled.

A group of Palestinian families has been besieged by masked, stone-throwing Israeli settlers in the Occupied West Bank, in what the US ambassador has condemned as a “horrific act of terror” in a rare rebuke.

Israeli settlers’ siege of Palestinian homes draws a sharp US rebuke  AP News

About a dozen Palestinian households in a village in the occupied West Bank were toldto leave their properties during an Israeli military operation to remove Israeli settlers.

US ambassador Mike Huckabee referred to the settlers as ‘terrorists’.

Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in the occupied West Bank, including one owned by a Palestinian American, for several days

Israeli settlers besiege Palestinian homes  CNN

Israeli forces detain three Palestinians as settlers seize tractor near Ramallah Israeli forces detained three Palestinians during a raid on the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli settlers seized a tractor owned by the village council, the Wafa news agency reported, citing

The mayor of Qusra says Israeli troops have been telling families to leave their houses, using some as barracks.

NewsFeedIsraeli settlers have besieged Palestinian families in their homes in the occupied West Bank, cutting off their water and electricity. Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim spoke to a resident whose family members are surrounded in a house in Qusra village.Published On 13 Aug 2026

Settler extremists accused of cutting electricity, water to Palestinian homes • Locals describe feeling helpless as Ben-Gvir says some settlers "must be stopped"

In the occupied West Bank, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, appealed on Thursday to Israeli authorities to help Palestinian families trapped in their homes by settlers for days, amid an intensifying campaign to seize their land.

IDF evicts Palestinian families as settlers resist army operation to end siege  Haaretz

Israeli settlers have trapped two Palestinian families in their homes in the occupied West Bank since Sunday

Residents said they were left without food and medicine, while the military condemned the settlers’ actions.

The Israeli military failed in an attempt on Wednesday to remove occupied West Bank settlers who for days have blockaded Palestinian homes, an eyewitness and an AFP photographer reported. The siege began on Sunday, when a group of settlers set up a makeshift tent near houses in the Palestinian village o

QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 12 - Israeli troops clashed with Jewish settlers on Wednesday while trying to disperse them from a West Bank outpost they set up directly in front of Palestinian homes, and later withdrew from the area after failing to clear the settlers, witnesses said.

Israeli settlers continue their violent campaign of intimidation, displacement and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. On 9 August, colonisers from the nearby Susya settlement attacked residents of Wadi Rakhim village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. Israeli settlers devastate family-of-t

A Palestinian family remains trapped in its West Bank home as activists say Israeli settlers and soldiers are blocking food and medical aid.