West Bank: US ambassador to Israel denounces siege of Palestinian homes as 'horrific act of terror'

Mike Huckabee, a staunch defender of Israel, said Israel had intervened at the request of the United States to try to impose order.

Mike Huckabee, a staunch defender of Israel, said Israel had intervened at the request of the United States to try to impose order.

Settlers near Nablus since Aug 9 have blockaded Palestinian homes, with residents saying they have been cut off from food.

"The actions of those doing this to this family’s home are criminal," Huckabee continued. "The WH hasn’t 'intervened' because we have kept DC apprised of the situation already."

Israel has 'policy of ethnic cleansing' of Palestinians in West Bank, advocate says Aseel Baidoun, the deputy director of advocacy and campaigns for Medical Aid for Palestinians, says that the Israeli government has a "systematic policy and a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” in the occupied West Bank

Two families have been trapped by settlers for days, casting a spotlight on the army’s struggle to curtail settler violence and protect Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.

Video shows the moment Israeli forces blow up the home of Farouk Ramadan, a Palestinian man who was killed in July.

Israel demolishes home of Palestinian killed in fatal West Bank settler clash  Haaretz

Israeli forces on Tuesday demolished the home of a Palestinian who died in July in the most lethal clash in months in the occupied West Bank, residents and the army told AFP. The clash broke out on July 24 when a group of Israeli settlers approached the town of Tell, leaving dead one settler, one soldie

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