{"id":582314,"date":"2026-08-12T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582314\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:40:08","slug":"israeli-settler-extremists-clash-with-idf-lay-siege-to-west-bank-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582314\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli settler extremists clash with IDF, lay siege to West Bank village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-905248\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">settler extremists<\/a> clashed with the IDF on Wednesday morning near Kusra, in the northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-905235\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Bank<\/a>, after the military evacuated an outpost that was set up in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The entire area has previously been declared a closed military zone.<\/p>\n<p>Border Police officers were dispatched to the scene, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-905210\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDF<\/a> brought additional soldiers to reinforce the area.<\/p>\n<p>In footage seen by The Jerusalem Post, extremists appear to be dismantling fences, blocking roads, and besieging the area.<\/p>\n<p>Central Command Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-904407\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth<\/a> reportedly visited the area this morning and left while the event was still taking place. According to the IDF, Bluth toured the area and its nearby outposts, and spoke with the Palestinian family residing there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Near their house, a tent was erected in an area where a closed military zone order was issued, and Israeli civilians were reportedly staying there. Border Police dismantled the tent and are attempting to remove the civilians who were occupying it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">During Bluth&#8217;s tour, commanders expressed concern over the actions of the Israeli civilians against the Palestinian family and ordered several measures to be taken moving forward, the IDF announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Army Radio was told by a security source that word of the Kusra outpost&#8217;s dismantling was leaked to the media before it was actually taken down, resulting in dozens of Jewish rioters arriving at the scene before security forces were able to dismantle it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Settlers have since returned to their outpost, and no arrests have been made as of Wednesday at noon, according to Army Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of settler extremists clashed with the IDF on Wednesday morning near Kusra, in the northern West Bank,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44917,70646,42,1031,112,2899,43,2200,77721,37944,40,38,41,39,77],"class_list":["post-582314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-border-police","tag-extremism","tag-headlines","tag-idf","tag-judea-and-samaria","tag-military","tag-news","tag-palestinians","tag-settler-violence","tag-settlers","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}