Trapped and cut off: Palestinian families under settler siege in the West Bank

Qusra, West Bank —  Loui Ridi began building a home in his native town of Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, for his two daughters. The girls grew up in Ohio, but family trips made them fall in love with their father’s Palestinian roots. “Can we have a home where grandmother lives, where you were born …

Several Palestinians injured as settlers continue attacks in West Bank Israeli settlers continued their assaults on Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Bank, injuring several people. Here are the details of some of these attacks, reported by Wafa. •    Israeli settlers beat up three Palestinians

Militant Israeli settlers occupy some West Bank homes, Palestinians say  Reuters

I am generally pro-Israel. But these actions amount to ethnic cleansing and gross violations of property rights.

Settlers Continue to Roam West Bank Villages, Harass Palestinians Despite Massive IDF Presence  Haaretz

Palestinian residents who remain in the area told KAN News that they still feel threatened by Jewish extremists in the area.

Three Palestinian families say they have been trapped inside their homes in the occupied West Bank for nearly a week.

The United States is urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly condemn Israeli settlers who have besieged Palestinian homes in Qusra, while France is calling for their arrest and prosecution. As residents remain cut off from food and other supplies, settler violence is putting further political press

The spring served as a lifeline for the nearby village of Fasayil in the fertile Jordan Valley, where Palestinians have relied on it for generations for food, employment and to supplement irregular Israeli supplies to their domestic taps.

The standoff in Qusra between Palestinian families and Israeli settlers who apparently want to push them out entered a new stage Friday as activists supporting the Palestinians marched toward the besieged homes to replenish their dwindling food and water supply.

Israeli settlers have been blockading homes in the West Bank town of Qusra, leading to a tense standoff

When Israeli extremists arrived in Qusra to force Palestinians from their homes, residents hoped the Israel Defense Forces would come to their aid.

From inside his home in the West Bank town of Qusra, Qusai Abu Rida watched on Friday as Israeli settlers moved from where they had erected a tent in front of his house to the valley below, rather than returning to the nearby outpost where they live.

“A stable West Bank keeps Israel secure and is in line with this administration’s goal to achieve peace in the region,” said a White House official.

On 9 August, settlers established a new outpost in Qusra, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, setting up a tent just metres away from Palestinian homes. They continue to lay siege on three family homes, which are on the outskirts of the village, on a hill. The settlers have cut water and electric […] By Charlie

Israeli settlers have been blockading homes in the West Bank town of Qusra, leading to a tense standoff

The U.S. wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly condemn a siege imposed by Jewish settlers in a Palestinian village, officials said on Friday, as settlers pressured residents by pitching a new tent before Israeli soldiers arrived and it was taken down.

Rogue Israeli settlers at Qusra near Nablus began blockading Palestinian homes on Aug 9.

Israeli settlers at Qusra near Nablus began blockading Palestinian homes on Sunday and have defied attempts to remove them.

Settler violence in the West Bank prompted U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee to call the perpetrators "Israeli terrorists" after they besieged a Palestinian American's home near Nablus.

By Pesha Magid and Rami Ayyub QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Jewish settlers set up a tent outside a Palestinian home in the village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank on Friday before Israeli soldiers arrived and it was taken down, footage showed, as settlers pressed a siege which Palestinians say aims to drive

The U.S. ambassador, appointed by Trump last year and a fierce defender of Israel, called it a “horrific act of terror.”

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

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee calls settlers ‘terrorists’ in unusually strong rebuke

The Israeli military ordered Palestinians to evacuate 15 homes in the West Bank village of Qusra in a move to clear Israeli illegal outposts.

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

Israeli settlers besiege Palestinian homes  edition.cnn.com

Israeli forces evicted Palestinian families and imposed a military zone in Qusra as troops moved to dismantle an illegal settler outpost after days of terror.

Israeli troops have taken up positions inside Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Qusra, the mayor said, after settlers trapped families in their houses.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee denounced a group of Israeli settlers who laid siege to a Palestinian home in the West Bank, describing them as “terrorists.” Ihab Hassan, a Palestinian Christian activist, called attention to a mob of Israeli settlers laying siege to the house in the West Bank village of Qusra,

Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in the occupied West Bank for several days, including one owned by a Palestinian American, in what the U.S. ambassador called a ''horrific act of terror'' on Thursday.

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.

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